Pega Lead System Architect (LSA)

Meet our Team

We represent Hitachi Vantara to enterprise clients across industries, establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services and solutions. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers; success that is celebrated and shared. Our solutions bring value to every line of business and we need people like you to build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our value proposition.



What you'll be doing

Responsibilities:

1. Using Pega in a headless implementation pattern - .must be able to talk though pros and cons of building natively in Pega vs. calling Pega API headlessly. We expect that our ideal solution will need to leverage both patterns. Many LSAs have a bias towards only building natively in Pega, so this broader view of solution architecture and ability to recommend the best pattern for a specific scenario is going to be critical.
2. Pega Lead System Architect LSA is responsible for architecting and designing business applications using Pega PRPC and other Pega frameworks. Provides architecture and design guidance to project teams developing BPM/BRE solutions using Pega.
3. Provide thought-leadership to client across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements
4. Develops and demonstrates an advanced knowledge of the PRPC Architecture and all PRPC design and implementation features
5. Works in conjunction with Program Manager to size, manage scope and risk
6. Accountable for ensuring the business and technical architecture of the delivered solution matches customer technical and functional requirements, and commits to Customer Success (realization of business benefit)
7. Participates in the development of additional consulting opportunities within the customer base.

Qualifications:
1. Pega LSA certification (we will need to know the email address they used when registering for the certification exam to verify this status).
2. Ideally, experience working in Pega 8.6 or 8.7. This is our target version. Must have experience working in Pega 8.x. Lower versions are very different, so 7.x experience only is not going to be sufficient to support the program needs.
3. Experience using Pega in a headless implementation pattern. This person must be able to talk though pros and cons of building natively in Pega vs. calling Pega API headlessly. We expect that our ideal solution will need to leverage both patterns. Many LSAs have a bias towards only building natively in Pega, so this broader view of solution architecture and ability to recommend the best pattern for a specific scenario is going to be critical.
4. 15+ years of IT experience with database and client server design/development
5. 7+ years' in Pega leadership role to design and develop shared/reusable enterprise rules and workflow components within Pega solutions suite
6. 7+ years' experience in handling business process automation projects using Pega platform
7. 7+ years' experience scoping, planning and delivering projects in Agile methodology
8. Previous experience as a lead architect on multiple large-scale product or enterprise designs
9. Expertise and good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems including architecting and designing for performance and scalability and working with Object to Relational Mapping schemes for distributed data access
10. Solid fundamentals in Core Java & Object Oriented concepts
11. Experience in Web technologies including Servlets, JSP, and XML. Should have hands on experience in developing web applications.
12. Excellent skills in any of the RDBMS tools like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 or Sybase. Should be proficient in SQL commands
13. Experience in client side technologies like HTML, Java Script, CSS
14. Experience working with any of the Servlet containers or Enterprise containers like Jakarta tomcat, BEA Web logic, IBM WebSphere JBOSS. Should have knowledge in using any of the mentioned servers like deployment, configuring & troubleshooting
15. Knowledge in web services, JMS, Middleware tools (like Web Methods, Vitria), Web frameworks (like Struts, spring), Design Patterns (like MVC I, MVC II etc).
16. Knowledge of components for enterprise architecture like enterprise beans is a plus

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge