Lead Architect

Clark Connect; Noord-Brabant; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lease car

Mobility budget

Laptop

Phone

Training opportunities

Job summary

Clark Connect is seeking a Pega-focused architect to oversee the technical and architectural direction of the Pega platform, ensuring alignment with business goals. You will guide the roadmap, balance technical debt, and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders to drive value.

Based in the Netherlands (Noord-Brabant), you will work primarily on-site under a permanent contract, with mobility options such as a lease car.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Pega on technical and architectural levels.
• Experience shaping technical roadmaps and balancing business value with debt.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical and architectural Pega lead for the platform.
• Shape the Pega roadmap to deliver business value with minimal debt.
• Lead two scrum teams and maintain an overview of the big picture.
• Own solution architecture and develop high-level designs.
• Assess if Pega remains the right choice with cost in mind.
• Propose improvements to speed up delivery and efficiency.

Skills

Pega expertise

Solution architecture

Technical roadmap

Stakeholder communication

Cost optimization

Platform modernization

Team leadership

Job description

Direct employment with the client, no secondment

Key features

• Ownership of the Pega roadmap:You help shape how the platform develops further, balancing business value with manageable technical debt.
• Technical linchpin between two scrum teams:You're the go-to person for architecture and connect the technical solution to the teams building it.
• Room to look beyond the platform:You critically assess whether Pega remains the right choice, weighing up costs and benefits.
• Influence on the development process: You propose improvements to enable faster and more efficient delivery.
• Stable employer:You'll join a large, established commercial organization with its own development teams.
• Salary indication: €90.000 - €110.000 per year, depending on experience.
• Working week: 32 - 40 hours per week.
• Contract: A permanent contract from day one, no secondment.
• Mobility: Lease car or mobility budget.
• Secondary benefits: Laptop, phone, various training opportunities.
• Location: mainly on-site.

About the company

This organization is a large, established player with a strong focus on custom-made products, built and delivered to order. Pega is used across multiple domains as a BPM platform, with an emphasis on customer engagement. The internal demand organization has a strong voice in setting priorities, which calls for someone who can both build and convince. The organization works with several of its own development teams and is deliberately investing in further professionalizing its IT landscape.

Key responsibilities

In this role you're the technical and architectural point of contact for the Pega platform. You focus on how the Pega landscape is technically structured. The question of what role Pega plays within the wider application landscape sits with the Enterprise Architect.

• Critically shaping the technical Pega roadmap: continuing to deliver business value without creating unnecessary technical debt and knowing how to sell that internally. This also means providing counterbalance towards the business.
• Contributing to lowering the platform's total cost of ownership.
• Technically leading two scrum teams, made up of a mix of permanent colleagues and external specialists.
• Owning solution architecture. The lead developers on the teams work out the HLDs themselves; you keep an overview of the bigger picture.
• Assessing whether Pega remains the right choice for specific challenges, with an eye on cost.
• Proposing improvements to make the development process more efficient and enable faster delivery.

What the company is looking for

• Strong experience with Pega, both on a technical and architectural level. They are not looking for a senior developer, but for someone with solid experience in solution architecture and defining the technical roadmap for Pega.
• The ability to look beyond the platform itself: you're not a pure systems specialist.
• Experience balancing business value and technical debt over the longer term.
• Persuasiveness to sell your vision on the roadmap to a strong internal demand organization.
• Able to hold your own in conversations with both technical colleagues and the business.
• Experience further developing the platform, for example towards a more modern UI architecture.