Pega Architect / Pega Subject Matter Expert (Hands-on labs & Assessments)

Catalyte; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Catalyte is delivering a live, instructor-led Pega Senior System Architect training program for federal agency developers. You will design hands-on activities, build reference solutions, and help shape automated assessments that measure Pega best practices.

You’ll review materials for technical accuracy and test end-to-end in a real training environment, ensuring readiness for participants taking the CSSA exam. This contract role is remote in the US with flexible weekly hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building Pega case-management in production.
• Strong command of Pega design: case types, data model, class structure, reuse, rule resolution, and background processing.
• Hands-on with Constellation, and working knowledge of Cosmos UI.
• Experience with integrations, security, and performance diagnosis in Pega.
• Experience with Pega lifecycle tools: branches, PegaUnit, Deployment Manager, and guardrail compliance.
• Experience setting up and administering Pega environments, including importing and exporting applications.

Responsibilities

• Design hands-on activities and projects. Turn Pega concepts and best practices into labs and team projects.
• Build reference solutions and starting points for activities and projects.
• Help build automated assessments with rubrics that reflect best Pega practices.
• Review content for technical accuracy against current Pega versions.
• Test activities end-to-end in the training environment before delivery.
• Advise on the training environment, including setup and export from participant Pega environments.

Skills

Pega architecture

Case-management

Integration & security

Pega lifecycle tools

Clear communication

Tools

Constellation

Cosmos UI

PegaUnit

Deployment Manager

Guardrail

Pega Cloud for Gov

Job description

Pega Architect / Pega Subject Matter Expert, Hands-On Labs and Assessments (Contract)

Engagement: Contract, remote (US)

Start: immediately, early November 2026

Through: December 2026, with an option to extend

Hours: 40 – 60 total; 8-10 hours per week over the projects initial duration

Rate: $90 - $100 per hour

About the work

Catalyte is delivering a live, instructor-led Pega Senior System Architect training program for developers and engineers at a federal agency. Participants come out able to design, build, integrate, secure, test and deploy Pega case-management applications, and ready to sit the Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) exam.

The program is built around doing the work. Participants learn by building realistic case-management applications in their own Pega environments, and their progress is measured from what they build.

We're looking for an experienced Pega architect to bring real-world expertise to that hands-on work. You'll work with our instructors, our curriculum team and our assessment team.

What you'll do

• Design hands-on activities and projects. Turn Pega concepts and best practices into realistic labs, exercises and team projects that build skills step by step and reflect how Pega applications are actually built and maintained.
• Build reference solutions. Create the working applications, starting points and solutions that activities and projects need.
• Help build automated assessments. Work with the assessment team to define what good Pega work looks like, and how to check it automatically from a participant's exported application, tests and pipeline results. That includes rubrics that reward Pega best practice (declarative rules, guardrail compliance, reuse, testing), not just whether something runs.
• Review content for technical accuracy. Check learning materials, rubrics and practice exam questions against current Pega versions and practices.
• Test before delivery. Run activities end to end in the training environment before participants see them, and fix what breaks.
• Advise on the training environment. Help set up, reset and export from participant Pega environments.

What you bring

Required

• 5+ years building Pega case-management applications in production
• Strong command of Pega application design: case types, the data model, class structure and reuse, rule resolution, and background processing
• Hands‑on experience with Constellation, and working knowledge of the older Cosmos UI
• Experience with integrations, security, and performance diagnosis in Pega
• Experience with Pega's application lifecycle tools: branches, PegaUnit, Deployment Manager, and guardrail compliance
• Experience setting up and administering Pega environments, including importing and exporting applications
• You write clearly. Your instructions are ones another person can follow without you in the room.

Preferred

• Hands‑on with Pega GenAI, Knowledge Buddy and Blueprint
• Experience with Pega Cloud for Government, FedRAMP environments, or federal case-management programs
• Experience creating training, labs or certification-prep material, or mentoring junior Pega developers
• Experience with automated testing or code-quality tooling
• Eligible for, or holding, a federal Public Trust background investigation