Senior Pega Developer

Role: Senior Pega Developer

Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Position Overview

• We are seeking a highly skilled and certified Senior Pega Developer with extensive hands-on experience in financial frameworks to join our dynamic team.
• In this role, you will lead the design, development, testing, rollout of new features and implementation of robust business process management (BPM) applications using the Pega Smart Investigate framework.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to automate and optimize Payment Operations workflows, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure transaction management.

Key Information

• Mandatory Certification: Pega Certified Senior System Architect (PCSSA) and Pega Certified System Architect (PCSA)
• Key Responsibilities
• Develop full stack applications with due consideration to security, design, validation and SDLC framework
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, engineers to define product requirements, objectives
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management
• Develop resilient, scalable and secure modules using cloud native services
• Framework Development: Architect, configure, and deploy comprehensive end-to-end solutions leveraging the Pega Smart Investigate framework to streamline exceptions, disputes, and investigation workflows.
• Core Application Engineering: Build and maintain scalable case management workflows, business process rules, data models, and complex background processing components (Queue Processors, Job Schedulers).
• System Integration: Design and configure secure enterprise-grade integrations (REST, SOAP, MQ, Kafka, and file listeners) to link Pega with external banking ledgers and core transaction systems.
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Enforce Pega guardrails, conduct detailed code reviews, and optimize application performance by troubleshooting code errors and processing bottlenecks.
• Technical Leadership: Provide subject matter expertise on architectural direction, and mentor junior engineers within an Agile/Scrum delivery environment.

Required Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• Pega Expertise: Minimum 7+ years of dedicated experience developing enterprise applications on the Pega PRPC platform (Pega 8.x experience preferred).
• Smart Investigate & Financial Domain: Proven, direct hands-on project experience working with the Pega Smart Investigate framework and a deep operational understanding of global Payment Systems and banking regulations.
• Mandatory Certification: Valid Pega Certified Senior System Architect (PCSSA / SSA) certifications.
• BPM Capabilities: Master-level knowledge of Pega Case Management, Enterprise Class Structure (ECS) design, Data Pages, Declarative expressions, UI rules, and Report Definitions.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts
• Proficiency with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Proven to work independently in a fast paced and often multi-direction work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possess Pega certifications such as CSSA or CLSA
• Experience in financial services specifically corporate cash management desirable
• Strong communication skills, drive, and ownership
• Experience with AWS service