Senior Pega Developer

Job Title: Senior Pega Developer/Senior System Architect (SSA)

Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid_ Local candidates preferred)

Duration: 6+ months

Experience: 7+ Years of hands-on Pega development experience

Mandatory Certification: Pega Certified Senior System Architect (PCSSA) and Pega Certified System Architect (PCSA)

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 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.