Pega Lead Architect: Enterprise-Scale Data & Security

Atos SE; Telford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical cover

Income protection

Life assurance

25 days leave + holidays

Flex benefits program

Disability interview guarantee

Job summary

Atos SE in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead System Architect to own the Pega solution architecture, translate complex business requirements into scalable designs, and provide hands-on technical leadership to Pega teams in the UK.

You will ensure architectural and security requirements, drive performance, enable robust integrations, and mentor engineers while partnering with Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, and Security Architects.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise applications using the Pega Platform.
• Experience as a Pega Lead System Architect or Solution Architect on large, complex programmes.
• Deep knowledge of Pega case management, data modelling, and integration.
• Strong understanding of Pega application design principles, guardrails, and reusable architecture.
• Experience with REST APIs, integration services, connectors, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience delivering solutions within Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to lead multiple Pega development teams and provide architecture governance across workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and technical design of Pega applications.
• Lead solution design across case management, workflows, data models, integrations, security, and user experience.
• Define application architecture, reusable components, enterprise design patterns, and implementation standards.
• Provide technical leadership to Pega Senior System Architects, System Architects, and development teams.
• Review solution designs and implementation approaches to ensure compliance with Pega guardrails and engineering best practices.
• Lead complex technical design decisions and resolve architecture and performance challenges.
• Design scalable integration patterns using REST APIs, services, connectors, data pages, messaging, and enterprise integration technologies.
• Define appropriate authentication, authorization, access control, and security architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Establish appropriate application monitoring, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting approaches.
• Define DevOps, CI/CD, branching, deployment, and release management approaches for Pega applications.
• Support production readiness, deployment planning, and technical assurance activities.
• Work closely with Business Architects, Product Owners, Enterprise Architects, Security Architects, and Integration Architects.
• Translate business requirements into appropriate Pega architecture and technical solutions.
• Lead technical workshops and communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor Pega engineers and support the development of engineering capability across delivery teams.
• Perform design and code reviews and ensure technical debt is identified and appropriately managed.
• Support estimation, delivery planning, technical risk management, and dependency management.
• Act as the Pega technical authority and escalation point throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Pega Platform

Lead System Architect

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

REST APIs

Security Architecture

DevOps / CI-CD

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder Management

Mentoring

Tools

Pega Infinity '24/25'

DX API

Pega Guardrails

REST Integrations

Job description

Atos SE in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead System Architect to own the Pega solution architecture, translate complex business requirements into scalable designs, and provide hands-on technical leadership to Pega teams in the UK.

You will ensure architectural and security requirements, drive performance, enable robust integrations, and mentor engineers while partnering with Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, and Security Architects.