Pega Architect

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as a Pega leader/mentor on best practices including methods and product capabilities and features.
• Facilitate/lead/participate in identification of strategic solution options.
• Integrate AI into daily work.
• Leverage AI Microsoft Copilot in Office 365 applications to quickly generate high quality project documentation.
• Supports story development with AI tools like Story Craft and Rally.
• Ensure alignment of solutions with business and technology goals/objectives.
• Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them.
• Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions through complex conceptual analyses with attention to detail.
• Facilitates change and process improvement within software development and business organizations.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking, solutions and roadmaps while driving enterprise recommendations and ensuring adherence to established standards and practices, including the development of standards and practices where they may not yet exist.
• Supports, facilitates and leads agile transformation with Product Owner, SMEs and development team as appropriate.
• Guides Product Owner to focus on capability, feature and user story identification ensuring proper documentation and representation in Rally.
• Maintains strong relationship with Lead System Architect (LSA) to ensure business solutioning and engineering is optimally utilizing out-of-the-box product capabilities.
• Maintains strong relationship with scrum master to collaborate on agile ceremonies, methods, tools and metrics.
• Use proven communication skills to collaborate with the business, including Product Owners, SMEs and executives to understand/influence business requirements.
• Communicate solution options to business owners/stakeholders (e.g. architecture reviews).
• Facilitates open communication and fact-based decision making.
• Demonstrates ownership and accountability of project requirements and solution definition artifacts throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify and quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems.
• Demonstrate understanding of cross-functional/cross-domain requirements and impact.
• Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems.
• Collaborates with LSA and Product Owner to approve deviations from standards.
• Deliver all project deliverables on scope, on time and on budget.
• Lead functional teams or projects.
• Work closely with QA team, providing guidance and support and understands test automation.
• Motivates and inspires other team members.
• Demonstrates positive team thinking and effective time management.