Pega Lead Systems Architect

Overview

Tantus Technologies, Inc. (Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking a Pega Lead Systems Architect to support a federal client.

Location: Hybrid role in Bethesda, MD.Clearance: This position supports a federal contract and requires the ability to pass a background check

What You'll Do

Advanced Architecting: Develop and design advanced enterprise-level systems. Architect and design complex solutions for large-scale Pega-based applications.

Team Management: Manage a team of developers and deliver a project from concept to finish.

Enterprise Collaboration: Work with other architects to explore and define how proposed capabilities will fit into a specific system and the overall solution architecture of the Pega ecosystem.

Strategical Roadmap: Consider the past, current, and future states of specific systems or systems as a whole, to analyze and produce an effective roadmap to grow and maintain the Pega ecosystem.

Mentorship / Inspire: Provide architecture and design guidance to individuals or project teams. To the contractor shall help educate and inspire fellow developers to learn and maximize their potential as they grow in their respective roles, working to mentor them and provide guidance on ways to improve their craft.

Integration Management: Build and maintain awareness of the various components that exist in each system to better understand and manage how those pieces will integrate and affect one another.

Complex Data Structures: Design advanced classes, data structures and foundational components with integrations between multiple internal or external systems.

Thought Leadership: Work with stakeholders to evaluate existing processes, clarify strategic objectives, and contribute to development plans as well as analyze and recommend how processes might be made to be more efficient.

Customer Relationships: Maintain customer relationships within the ITB and across the NIA enterprise.

Digital Whiteboarding Tools: Use a variety of digital whiteboarding tools (Visio / Adobe XD / PowerPoint / Figma, etc.) in order to help provide users with a centralized point of reference in virtual meetings to help generate discussion and feedback. Utilize these tools on the fly in meetings quickly and adapt to user input to adjust and make changes in real time. Use meetings or other collaboration methods to generate documentation from diagrams or flowcharts.

External Technologies: Research, learn and explore the capabilities of other nonPega-based technologies that might be able to help or contribute to overall Pega-based solutions.

Code Review: Conducts code reviews to run quality checks and offers insight into ways to code or design better at scale.

Working in a Remote Environment: Work in a remote environment and manage a geographically distributed team.

Communication Skills / Collaboration: Communicate clearly and collaborate with teams to iterate on software development concepts and other ideas beneficial to the institute. Discuss and provide analysis of feasibility.

Troubleshooting / Analysis: Troubleshoot complex technical issues using tools to help debug and analyze data.

Azure DevOps: Manage work in Microsoft Azure DevOps, utilize boards, queries and the creation and updates of pertinent work items. Documentation & User Guides: Develop pertinent documentation and user guides for NIA applications to be used and referred to by fellow developers or NIA Staff.

Critical Thinking & Analysis: Solve problems, think critically, and analyze user feedback or requirements. Analyze problems and logically break down into sizable portions which can be presented to development teams or clients for consideration.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Bachelor's degree: engineering and technical backgrounds are a plus

Min 7 years experience as Systems Architect required

Pega Lead Systems Architect Certification required

Experience with DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps

Experience with digital whiteboarding tools (Visio / Adobe XD / PowerPoint / Figma, etc.)

Agile/Scrum development methodology knowledge/experience

Abilities

Mentor with the demonstrated ability to coach others

Critical thinker with strong problem-solving ability

Team player with excellent communication skills

Inquisitive with the desire to learn

Attentive to detail with excellent time-management skills

Self-motivated with a strong work ethic

Creative thinker who designs innovative solutions

Nice to Haves

NIH experience

Salary Range

Salary range is $160,000-185,000/year. The salary range for this position reflects a variety of factors that influence compensation decisions, including skills, experience, training, certifications, and organizational needs.

Regular Full-Time