Pega Developer

Pega Developer

Location: Charlotte NC

Contract

Hybrid

Duration: 6+ Months

• Client is seeking a hands‑on Pega Lead Developer with strong expertise in Pega Case Management and system integrations.
• This role combines technical leadership with active development responsibilities.
• The ideal candidate will design and build high‑quality Pega solutions while helping team members, enforcing best practices, and partnering closely with architects, product owners, and integration teams.

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of Pega applications, with a strong emphasis on case management and workflow orchestration.
• Actively contribute to development (rules, flows, integrations, UI, decisioning) as a hands‑on lead, not just oversight.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable Pega designs.
• Ensure solutions align with Pega Guardrails, performance standards, and enterprise architecture guidelines.

• Design and implement end‑to‑end case life cycles, including stages, steps, SLAs, approvals, and escalations.
• Leverage case types, subcases, spin‑offs, and wait shapes effectively.
• Optimize user experience for case workers using Pega UX (sections, views, dashboards).

• Collaborate with downstream and upstream system teams to define interface contracts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration and performance issues.
• Design and implement integrations using REST and SOAP services, connectors and services, and Pega Integration Patterns (Sync/Async, Queue Processors, etc.).
• Manage heavy integration with SOAP, REST, Kafka, and MQ.

• Mentor and support junior and mid‑level developers through code reviews and hands‑on guidance.
• Set coding standards and reusable assets to improve team efficiency.

• Participate in code reviews, performance tuning, and defect resolution.
• Support deployment activities and production troubleshooting when needed.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and operational standards.

• 5 plus years of Pega platform experience, with significant hands‑on development.
• Strong expertise in Pega Case Management.
• Proven experience with Pega system integrations (REST/SOAP, services, connectors).
• Experience leading or mentoring development teams.
• Pega certifications such as CSSA and/or CLSA.
• Solid understanding of Pega rules engine, flow rules, decision tables, data pages.
• Experience with Pega Infinity (latest versions preferred).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices for Pega.
• Knowledge of cloud.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• 5 plus years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work or consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.

• Experience with Pega Infinity (latest versions preferred).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices for Pega.
• Knowledge of cloud.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• A hands‑on leader who codes daily and leads by example.
• Strong communicator who can work across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Problem‑solver with a passion for building high‑quality, scalable solutions.

• 8 plus years IT experience.
• 5 plus years of hands‑on Pega engineering experience.
• Complex case management (Jira/Confluence a plus).
• System integration (Rest API).

• CSSA certified.
• Cloud migration experience (any cloud).

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large‑scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi‑faced challenges requiring in‑depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi‑faced situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

• Build and maintain multiple internal projects (14 apps supported).
• Assignments may involve up to 2 apps at a time.
• Use Pega for workflow automation.
• Lead level experience capable of hands‑on coding with Pega.
• Team should be able to go to this person for guidance, code review, and advice.
• In the middle of cloud migration; cloud migration experience is a plus.
• Finance experience not a strong consideration; should be from an enterprise level organization.