Pega Lead Developer

at  Cognizant

THE POSITION:

Cognizant’s EAS-PEGA Practice is one of the leading PEGA service providers in the industry, well known for its ability to deliver PEGA solutions & thought leadership to customers. As we are strengthening our European operations we want to leverage our thought leadership capabilities to drive clients to accelerate the pace of their BPM implementation through the maturity curve.
To augment our PEGA delivery and practice team, we are looking for a PEGA Lead System Architect (between 8+ years of overall experience), having excellent technical, design/ architecture consulting and hands implementation experience on Pega PRPC and allied enterprise technology / architecture stacks. The candidate should have experience in designing and implementing applications & solutions with Pega PRPC and allied Pega PRPC Insurance frameworks (must).
A Lead System Architect plays one of the roles in ensuring the standards of application quality & design & development using Pega PRPC and meets the functional/ non-functional requirements of today’s business and is also robust & scalable.

Responsibilities:

• Including designing of enterprise class structure, data and application framework model.
• Ensure best possible designs (performance, scalability) of Pega PRPC applications/ solution compliant with Pega PRPC best practices, coding standards, guardrails, UI standards and client’s corporate standards.
• Lead the technical team independently starting from Inception till transition
• Interacting with Business users/ LBA/BA whenever required
• Adherence to Pegasystems development guardrails as well as the original design principles.
• Access Pegasystems centralized support infrastructure including the “expert design clinic,” the centralized Global Solutions Library, and architecture “black belts” on behalf of the customer.
• Coach and Mentor technical team members.
• Ensure Pega PRPC application/ solution is scalable & robust
• Work closely with the Product Owner in ensuring that the project deliverables and client business objectives are completely met.
• Technical understanding of interface/ integration technologies and deep understanding of customer’s needs so that they can be transformed into project design & implementation

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Pega PRPC DCO, Requirement Management experience, preferably on Pega 8.x (PEGA Infinity)
• Pega PRPC Insurance Implementation/ Solution Development Experience on Pega 8.x (PEGA Infinity)
• Project Implementation and design experience on Pega PRPC Insurance Frameworks.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in a similar role as Pega PRPC Developer
• A PEGA Lead System Architect certification is mandatory.
• Any domain knowledge – Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Energy & Utilities.
• Used to work in an International and Multi-cultural setting.
• Understanding and knowledge of current & enterprise-wide technologies including Open Source, web application development and databases (DB/2, Oracle, SQL)
• Agile/ Scrum project implementation experience is mandatory.

PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Good communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical IT stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating with internal teams and clients to deliver all technical (functional and non-functional requirements)
• Strategic thinking
• Strong problem-solving ability with a positive “can-do” attitude
• Independent and self-motivated personality
• Ability to guide technical teams of system architects.
• Certification – CLSA from Pegasystems on Pega 8.x (PEGA Infinity)/PEGA Infinity is mandatory.

• Including designing of enterprise class structure, data and application framework model.
• Ensure best possible designs (performance, scalability) of Pega PRPC applications/ solution compliant with Pega PRPC best practices, coding standards, guardrails, UI standards and client’s corporate standards.
• Lead the technical team independently starting from Inception till transition
• Interacting with Business users/ LBA/BA whenever required
• Adherence to Pegasystems development guardrails as well as the original design principles.
• Access Pegasystems centralized support infrastructure including the “expert design clinic,” the centralized Global Solutions Library, and architecture “black belts” on behalf of the customer.
• Coach and Mentor technical team members.
• Ensure Pega PRPC application/ solution is scalable & robust
• Work closely with the Product Owner in ensuring that the project deliverables and client business objectives are completely met.
• Technical understanding of interface/ integration technologies and deep understanding of customer’s needs so that they can be transformed into project design & implementatio