Senior Pega Engineer - Lead Scalable Solutions

Transport for NSW; Parramatta; On-site; AUD 163,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Pega to provide hands-on technical leadership across design, development and evolution of Pega applications for Transport Concessions. You will shape scalable architectures and guide integrations with REST APIs and AWS, ensuring security and maintainability.

You will mentor engineers, drive reusable patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with architecture and compliance requirements, while delivering

Qualifications

• Pega Platform expertise including Pega Infinity '24 or later.
• CSSA certification; CLSA certification is highly desirable.
• Experience leading complex Pega implementations and solution design.
• Strong experience integrating Pega with REST APIs and cloud platforms.
• Design reusable Pega components and patterns rather than bespoke solutions.
• Solid understanding of Pega architecture, data modelling, security and maintainability.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation and production support.
• Mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews and providing guidance.
• Ability to explain complex technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Tertiary IT or Software Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution design and technical direction of Pega applications supporting Transport Concessions schemes, delivering scalable, maintainable and reusable solutions.
• Design Pega application and data architectures that support complex customer, scheme and service relationships and enable capabilities to be shared across multiple concession schemes.
• Design and guide integrations between Pega, REST APIs, AWS-hosted services and other enterprise systems, ensuring solutions are secure, reliable and supportable.
• Establish reusable Pega components, patterns and engineering standards that reduce duplication, improve consistency and support faster delivery of new capabilities.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership throughout development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting and production support.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, guiding engineers towards pragmatic solutions that balance immediate delivery needs with long‑term platform sustainability.
• Mentor Pega engineers and help grow Pega engineering capability across the Core Platforms team.
• Identify and drive opportunities to simplify and modernise existing solutions, reduce technical debt and improve application performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams, cyber security specialists and stakeholders to ensure solutions align with Transport for NSW architecture, security and compliance requirements.
• Contribute to contemporary engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability and production support.

Skills

Pega Platform

Solution design & architecture

REST API integrations

DevOps & CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Security & compliance awareness

Education

Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA)

Pega Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) certification

Tertiary IT / Software Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Pega to provide hands-on technical leadership across design, development and evolution of Pega applications for Transport Concessions. You will shape scalable architectures and guide integrations with REST APIs and AWS, ensuring security and maintainability.

You will mentor engineers, drive reusable patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with architecture and compliance requirements, while delivering