Pega Lead System Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a Pega Lead System Architect/Senior System Architect to define end-to-end architecture following Pega best practices. You will design responsive UIs with Constellation, manage background processing rules, and establish governance across rulesets and guardrails.

Responsibilities include enterprise authentication integration, RBAC design, API patterns, and DevOps for Pega with automated, gated promotions.

Qualifications

• Experience defining end-to-end architecture with Pega best practices.
• Experience in background processing rules (Agents, Listeners, Job Schedulers, Queue Processors).
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Pega platform architecture: layering, reuse, governance, and guardrails.
• Enterprise authentication/authorization: SSO, identity integration, robust RBAC design.
• Integration architecture: API design, security, resiliency across enterprise systems.
• DevOps for Pega: CI/CD with automated testing, promotions across environments.
• Partner with product owners to scope work for rapid outcomes.
• Mentor engineers to improve standardization and reliability.
• Production readiness: monitoring, runbooks, incident management.

Skills

Pega

CI/CD pipelines

RBAC design

SSO integration

AWS S3

AWS KMS

DevOps for Pega

Tools

Constellation framework

Portals

Job description

Job Description
Pega Lead System Architect/ Senior System Architect
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Define the end-to-end application architecture following Pega’s best practices and guardrails.
• Design and develop responsive user interfaces using the Constellation framework, specifically utilizing Portals, Views, and out-of-the-box (OOTB) DX components.
• Experience in background processing rules like Agents, Listeners, Job Schedulers and Queue Processors
• Define foundational architectural decisions across application layers, rulesets/ruleset versions, reuse patterns, and guardrails that balance enterprise consistency with business unit autonomy.
• Stand up and maintain enterprise “golden paths” including templates, common components, and reusable assets.
• Implement and maintain SSO integrations and enterprise identity alignment.
• Design and implement RBAC standards (roles, access groups, privileges) across personas (developers, architects, tech leads, operations, business stakeholders, auditors).
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines with automated gates for promotion across environments.
• Define versioning/release strategy and enforce repeatable promotion patterns
• Ensure security auditing and platform controls meet enterprise policies.
• Define the platform integration approach and reference architectures for common enterprise integrations including:
• AWS services such as S3, KMS o Configuring Internal APIs / eventing patterns o Establish governance mechanisms (design reviews, reuse intake, exceptions process)

Roles & Responsibilities

• Pega platform architecture: application layering, reuse design, ruleset strategy, governance models, and enterprise guardrails.
• Enterprise authentication/authorization: SSO, identity integration, and robust RBAC design for regulated environments.
• Integration architecture: API design patterns, security, resiliency, and integration lifecycle management across enterprise systems. Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies.
• DevOps for Pega: pipeline-driven promotions, automated testing strategy, Lead a team of Pega developers/engineers across the delivery lifecycle: discovery, estimation, design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.
• Partner with product owners to scope and sequence work to deliver outcomes with speed and quality.
• Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture toward standardization, reliability, and automation-first execution.
• quality/compliance gates, release controls, and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Production readiness: performance/scalability, resiliency patterns, logging/monitoring, operational runbooks, and incident management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead and mentor engineers.

Salary Range- $110,000-$125,000 a year