"Alerted.org

Senior Software Architect, Services Engineering (Multiple Openings)

Job Category: Professional Services

What You'll Do at Pega:

+ Software Design and Development:

+ Demonstrate exemplary technical leadership to technically drive strategic initiatives of limited scope, for a Tribe (backlog); assimilate multiple technologies and integrate them into an effective solution; document suggestions for continued improvements to internal systems and products;

+ Work with the development teams to define an effective implementation plan for the architecture; and

+ Communicate fluently architecture/design to stakeholders, including poise in pressure situations.

+ Architecture:

+ Collaborate closely with Product Owners to understand business use cases and come up with architecture for those use cases;

+ Work closely with leadership to ensure alignment of our business goals and our enterprise architecture;

+ Research new technologies and patterns and figure out how to apply them to the platform;

+ Define architecture standards and promote them within the Tribe (product area);

+ Identify architecture gaps and work with the different stakeholders across organizational boundaries to address them;

+ Participate in architecture forums across Tribes (product areas);

+ Stay up-to-date with the standards & best practices in the industry, with the ability to define best practices & standards of technical excellence for the Tribe (product area);

+ Make decisions on selecting an architecture approach for wider adoption;

+ Drive initiatives by engaging with stakeholders, communicating and educating architecture and design;

+ Identify possible opportunities inherent to the technology;

+ Propose and lead architectural initiatives within the Tribe (product area);

+ Provide architecture expertise on the product across multiple teams in the Tribe (product area); and

+ Animate the software architect community within the Tribe (product area).

+ Lead the evolution of Pega’s Digital Experience API which is the foundation for systems and user interfaces to integrate with Pega’s products.

+ Technical Thought Leadership:

+ Participate and present in technical conferences/forums;

+ Write blogs in both internal and external forums; and

+ Look for opportunities to publish papers and file disclosures.

+ Motivation and Knowledge Transfer:

+ Mentor and coach software engineers on architecture;

+ Work closely with the team to provide guidance, ensure alignment and increase the team's architecture awareness and ensure architecture challenges are proactively identified and addressed; and

+ Provide constructive feedback through architecture/design reviews.

Who You Are:

+ Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field of study, and

+ 8 years of experience as a Software Architect involving software development or architecture, including 6 years of experience building cloud native platforms.

+ Experience specified must include 8 years of experience with each of the following:

+ Software engineering;

+ SDLC; and

+ Algorithms and data structures.

+ Experience specified must include 5 years of experience with each of the following:

+ Working with internal and external customers and product owners to understand problems and provide solutions;

+ Delivering production software that is highly available, achieving greater than 99% availability and scales to support thousands of users; and

+ Writing code to build an end to end system.

+ Experience specified must include 3 years of experience with each of the following:

+ Utilizing Architecture and Design principles, patterns and anti-patterns; Full Stack Technologies in a Cloud Native Environment;

+ Pega Digital Experience API; and

+ Mentoring and coaching junior engineers.

+ Telecommuting permitted.

+ May live anywhere in the U.S.

Work Location and Salary:

**Work Location:** 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451

**Salary:** $172,744 to $262,700

Pega Offers You:

+ Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products

+ Continuous learning and development opportunities

+ An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment

+ Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

Job ID: 22022

It is Pega's policy to engage, recruit, hire, promote, train, discipline, and compensate in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

https://www.pega.com/about/careers/equal-employment-opportunity