Senior Pega Application Engineer

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Pega Application Engineer today with HCA Healthcare.

The Senior Pega Application Engineer is a key technical contributor responsible for the design, development, implementation, integration, and ongoing support of enterprise Care Management solutions built on the Pega Platform. This role partners with business, product, architecture, and engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise technology standards and strategic objectives.

The Senior Pega Application Engineer provides technical leadership throughout the application development lifecycle, including solution design, development, code and design reviews, testing, implementation, production support, and continuous improvement. The engineer applies Pega platform capabilities, including Pega Customer Service and Constellation architecture and user experience patterns, along with software engineering best practices and sound architectural principles to deliver high-quality enterprise solutions.

This position requires the ability to independently analyze complex business and technical requirements, evaluate solution alternatives and technical tradeoffs, and drive work from concept through production with minimal supervision. The engineer collaborates across multidisciplinary teams, provides technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, and contributes to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement across the development organization.

The Senior Pega Application Engineer develops a strong understanding of the existing application, integration, and data landscape, including legacy technologies and dependencies, and supports the modernization and evolution of those capabilities. The role diagnoses and resolves complex production issues and proactively identifies opportunities to improve application performance, resiliency, security, maintainability, and supportability.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong technical judgment, ownership, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous learning. They will be comfortable operating in a large, fast-paced enterprise environment and consistently delivering high-quality solutions that support critical business and operational needs.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Leads the analysis, design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise Pega solutions using established Agile practices, engineering standards, and development methodologies.

Leads solution design and technical architecture activities, translating complex business requirements into technical requirements, application designs, integration patterns, and implementation approaches.

Collaborates with and follows architectural direction established by the Pega Lead System Architect (LSA), ensuring solution designs and implementations conform to established architecture, design patterns, development standards, and technical guidance.

Designs and develops Pega Customer Service solutions using Constellation architecture and prescribed user experience patterns.

Designs scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and business objectives.

Designs and implements integrations between Pega applications and enterprise systems, services, APIs, data sources, and existing technologies.

Partners closely with business analysts, product and project leadership, architects, engineers, management, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate solution options, and deliver business outcomes.

Provides technical leadership on complex, large-scale initiatives involving multiple applications, teams, technologies, and organizational areas.

Evaluates solution alternatives and technical tradeoffs, balancing business value, delivery timelines, technical complexity, maintainability, performance, security, and long-term sustainability.

Analyzes high-level business and technical requirements, identifies dependencies and risks, and develops accurate technical estimates to support planning and delivery.

Promotes Agile principles, engineering best practices, and value-based decision-making across the team.

Develops a comprehensive understanding of existing application…