Lead Pega Systems Architect

TST Poland; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Lead Systems Architect in Frankfurt, Germany. In this role, you will design and integrate Pega Customer Decision Hub solutions, ensuring seamless communication between customer platforms. The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of architecture experience and significant expertise in the Pega Platform or CDH delivery. The position offers a full-time employment opportunity, emphasizing technical leadership and collaboration with clients.

Qualifikationen

• 8 years of architecture experience in enterprise systems, customer platforms, or integration engineering.
• 5 years in Pega Platform or Pega CDH delivery, preferably in an LSA or senior integration role.
• Deep expertise in RESTful service design and event-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of relational/NoSQL databases and middleware.

Aufgaben

• Architect end-to-end integration patterns with Pega CDH.
• Review and approve all system integration designs and mappings.
• Lead workshops with IT architects and define integration requirements.
• Ensure solutions are built for maintainability and scale.

Kenntnisse

Architecture experience in enterprise systems

Pega Platform or Pega CDH delivery

RESTful service design

Event-based architectures

API/microservices frameworks

Relational/NoSQL databases

Real-time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis)

DevOps and SDLC best practices

Excellent communication skills

Ausbildung

Certified Pega Lead System Architect (CLSA)

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Summary of Position

The Lead Systems Architect (LSA) is the senior technical authority responsible for designing, integrating, and scaling Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH) solutions within a client’s enterprise ecosystem. The LSA specializes in backend system integrations, ensuring real-time, reliable, secure, and high‑volume data exchange between CDH and customer platforms such as CRM, MDM, billing data lakes, marketing clouds, event hubs, and channel systems.

This role provides architectural leadership, establishes integration standards, and ensures the technical integrity and performance of all CDH‑related services.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture & Integration Design

Architect end‑to‑end integration patterns between Pega CDH and enterprise systems using REST/JSON, SOAP, Kafka, MQ, SFTP, and ETL pipelines.

Define high‑level and detailed architecture blueprints including data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, integration specifications, and deployment architectures.

Ensure integrations support real‑time decisioning, high throughput, low latency, and high availability across all customer touchpoints.

Select and enforce standards for authentication, authorization, encryption, error handling, retries, logging, and API versioning.

Technical Leadership & Delivery Oversight

Serve as the technical lead for integration workstreams across all environments (Dev, Prod).

Review and approve all system integration designs, mappings, and interface specifications.

Guide developers and architects in building scalable and reusable components.

Ensure delivered integrations align with enterprise security, compliance, and architectural governance.

CDH Enablement & Ecosystem Orchestration

Design data sourcing strategies for interaction history, customer profile feeds, decisioning data, and AI model inputs.

Collaborate with Decisioning Architects and Data Architects to ensure integrations enable real‑time eligibility, suitability, arbitration, and propensity scoring.

Optimize container behavior for inbound channels including web, mobile, contact center, ATM/kiosk, and IVR.

Client Engagement & Advisory

Lead workshops with IT enterprise architects and application owners to define integration requirements.

Present architectural recommendations, integration patterns, and trade‑offs to executive and technical stakeholders.

Troubleshoot complex integration issues, identify root causes, and drive long‑term resolutions.

Quality Performance & Governance

Define non‑functional requirements (NFRs) including performance benchmarks, throughput thresholds, and resiliency SLAs.

Oversee performance testing, failover validation, environment readiness, and capacity planning.

Ensure solutions adhere to SDLC best practices and are built for maintainability and scale.

Required Experience & Skills

8 years of architecture experience in enterprise systems, customer platforms, or integration engineering.

5 years in Pega Platform or Pega CDH delivery, preferably in an LSA or senior integration role.

Deep expertise in RESTful service design, event‑based architectures, and API/microservices frameworks.

Strong understanding of relational/NoSQL databases, real‑time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), and middleware.

Proficiency with security standards, high‑availability patterns, and cloud‑native architectures.

Ability to translate business requirements into robust, scalable integration solutions.

Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences.

Preferred / Certifications

Certified Pega Lead System Architect (CLSA) required.

Experience with enterprise marketing technology CDPs, CRMs, and data hub architectures.

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are a plus.

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1