Pega Lead System Architect: Payments Platform Expert

techstrasolutions; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh, PA seeks a Pega Lead System Architect to provide enterprise technical leadership, architecture oversight, and guidance for delivery teams on large banking payment projects. You will design and govern Pega-based solutions, coordinate integrations, ensure performance and DR, and mentor architects.

Requires LSA certification and 10+ years in Pega design/architecture. The role emphasizes enterprise scalability, governance, and collaboration across distributed teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ Years of overall IT experience with 7+ years specializing in Pega design, architecture, and implementation, preferably in a large banking / financial institution environment focusing on payment exception processing.
• Active Pega Certified Lead System Architect (LSA) certification.
• Pega Infinity / Constellation Experience.
• Deep expertise in Pega Smart Investigate for Payments (PSI) framework architecture and customization.
• Enterprise Application Architecture and Design Patterns.
• Performance Tuning, High Availability (HA), and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.
• Complex Enterprise Integrations (REST, SOAP, MQ, Kafka).
• Process Improvement.
• Release Management.
• Software Solutions and Design.
• Application Development.

Responsibilities

• Technical Troubleshooting - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth.
• Application Delivery Process - Extensive Experience.
• Application Design, Architecture - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth.
• Application Development Tools - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth.
• Application Testing - Extensive Experience.
• Packaged Application Integration - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth.
• System Development Lifecycle - Extensive Experience.

Skills

Pega design

Pega architecture

Pega PSI

Enterprise integrations

Performance Tuning

HA/DR strategies

Release Management

Software design

Team leadership

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering

Tools

Pega Infinity

Constellation

PSI framework

Job description

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh, PA seeks a Pega Lead System Architect to provide enterprise technical leadership, architecture oversight, and guidance for delivery teams on large banking payment projects. You will design and govern Pega-based solutions, coordinate integrations, ensure performance and DR, and mentor architects.

Requires LSA certification and 10+ years in Pega design/architecture. The role emphasizes enterprise scalability, governance, and collaboration across distributed teams