PEGA Lead System Architect
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Min Experience: 9 years
Location: Chicago, Schaumburg
JobType: full-time
We are looking for a highly skilled PEGA Lead System Architect (LSA) to drive the design and delivery of enterprise-grade PEGA solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in the PEGA platform and proven experience in leading technical architecture, with strong preference for candidates who have worked in insurance domains such as Property & Casualty (P&C), Life & Annuities, Health, or Commercial Insurance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end PEGA solution architecture and technical design for large-scale implementations.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance PEGA applications.
- Provide hands-on leadership in PEGA development, including case lifecycle design, data modeling, UI/UX design, integrations, and rules configuration.
- Define, implement, and enforce best practices, coding standards, and guardrails in line with PEGA’s architecture principles.
- Conduct architecture reviews, code inspections, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to align solutions with enterprise architecture.
- Mentor and guide junior developers and system architects.
- Contribute to project planning, effort estimation, and risk assessment.
- Stay current with the latest PEGA features, enhancements, and platform roadmap.
Required Qualifications
- PEGA Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) certification (mandatory).
- 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in PEGA architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade PEGA applications.
- Strong expertise in PRPC concepts, case lifecycle design, flows, rules, decisioning, and data pages.
- Hands-on experience with PEGA integration patterns (REST, SOAP, MQ, Kafka, etc.).
- Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices in PEGA environments.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering PEGA solutions in the insurance sector (e.g., Claims, Policy Administration, Underwriting, Customer Service, FNOL).
- Familiarity with industry-standard data models such as ACORD.
- Exposure to PEGA Customer Service, PEGA Decisioning (ADM), or PEGA Smart Claims.
- Experience with cloud-native PEGA deployments (PEGA Cloud, AWS, Azure).
- Background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Skills: PEGA, PEGA LSA, PRPC, Pega PRPC, DevOps, CI/CD
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