Lead Pega Architect – Healthcare & SCE Solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) with company contributions

Disability coverage

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Norfolk, VA seeks a PEGA Senior System Architect (SSA) to lead design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-grade Pega solutions. This role emphasizes Pega SCE, healthcare claims, and enterprise integrations, with hands-on leadership and adherence to development standards.

The ideal candidate will drive scalable, secure Pega applications, guide team reviews, and ensure high performance while aligning with regulatory and architectural guidelines.

Qualifications

• Pega Lead System Architect (LSA) with hands-on Pega implementations.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying secure, scalable Pega apps.
• Strong integration experience using REST APIs and microservices.
• Event-driven architectures and Kafka-based integrations expertise.
• Proven ability to conduct code reviews and enforce standards.
• Healthcare domain and enterprise integrations experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, configuration, testing, and optimization of Pega apps.
• Work on claims solutions using Pega SCE model for healthcare needs.
• Design scalable class structures, case types, workflows and UI frameworks.
• Design and implement event-driven data integrations with Kafka.
• Develop scalable integrations between Pega SCE and enterprise platforms.
• Leverage healthcare domain knowledge to meet operations requirements.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues; perform root cause analysis.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through reviews and guidance.

Skills

Pega LSA

API integration

Kafka integrations

Code reviews

Tools

REST APIs

Microservices

Kafka (Apache)

Confluent Kafka

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Norfolk, VA seeks a PEGA Senior System Architect (SSA) to lead design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-grade Pega solutions. This role emphasizes Pega SCE, healthcare claims, and enterprise integrations, with hands-on leadership and adherence to development standards.

The ideal candidate will drive scalable, secure Pega applications, guide team reviews, and ensure high performance while aligning with regulatory and architectural guidelines.