Cognizant
Pega Lead Systems Architect

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Pega Opportunities for System Architect – Senior System Architect and Lead System Architect
About the Role
As part of the Pega team you will make an impact by supporting our clients with their digital transformations with your Pega expertise. In 1999 Cognizant started their Pega journey with its first banking customer. Fast forward to 2025 and Cognizant has earned the Pega's Global Elite Partner Distinction.
In this role, you will:
- Analyse functional/non-functional requirements and seek clarifications for better understanding of requirements keeping the Pega OOTB features.
- Prepare high level and low-level design keeping in mind the customer NFRs and constraints. You will guide team in preparation of technical specification document and reviews and provide high level architectural aspects of non-Pega technologies in Pega ecosystem.
- Perform hands on coding and guide team in coding as per agreed design, as well as conducting code review and the elements to check during code review.
- Guide relevant stakeholders (clients/ internal teams) and enterprise assets development WITH the objective of standardizing the overall solution architecture from a technology/infrastructure perspective within the limits of the EAS processes, standards, and guidelines.
- Create a scalable architecture capable of accommodating future requirements.
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- Hands-on Experience with Pega
- Experience of Designing patterns in Pega, Knowledge around complex Integrations, AES/ PDC and other non-functional aspects of a Pega project.
- Knowledge of REST/SOAP integrations
- Knowledge and experience on at least one Pega Industry framework
- It would be ideal to be Pega CSSA or PEGA CLSA Certified depending on the level
If you wish to apply kindly send your CV to christina.ioannidis@cognizant.com
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