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Company: Cognizant
Region: Amsterdam , North Holland
OrganizationThe Enterprise Application Services (EAS) - Pega practice is specialized in designing, developing and maintaining Pega solutions. Pega is a leader in software for digital transformation. Pega takes a fundamentally different approach to structuring technology, starting with customers and the outcomes theyre trying to achieve. It is called the Center-out approach, since it avoids the common mistakes of starting top-down from customer channels, or bottom-up from (legacy) systems. The Cognizant EAS-Pega practice is one of the largest Pega practices globally, with a team of 3000+ certified associates worldwide.
The positionCognizants EAS-PEGA Practice is one of the leading PEGA service providers in the industry, well known for its ability to deliver PEGA solutions thought leadership to customers. As we are strengthening our European operations we want to leverage our thought leadership capabilities to drive clients to accelerate the pace of their BPM implementation through the maturity curve.
To augment our PEGA delivery and practice team, we are looking for a PEGA Lead System Architect (between 8+ years of overall experience), having excellent technical, design/ architecture consulting and hands implementation experience on Pega PRPC and allied enterprise technology / architecture stacks. The candidate should have experience in designing and implementing applications solutions with Pega PRPC and allied Pega PRPC Insurance frameworks (must).
A Lead System Architect plays one of the roles in ensuring the standards of application quality design development using Pega PRPC and meets the functional/ non-functional requirements of todays business and is also robust scalable.
Responsibilities- Including designing of enterprise class structure, data and application framework model.
- Ensure best possible designs (performance, scalability) of Pega PRPC applications/ solution compliant with Pega PRPC best practices, coding standards, guardrails, UI standards and clients corporate standards.
- Lead the technical team independently starting from Inception till transition
- Interacting with Business users/ LBA/BA whenever required
- Adherence to Pegasystems development guardrails as well as the original design principles.
- Access Pegasystems centralized support infrastructure including the "expert design clinic," the centralized Global Solutions Library, and architecture "black belts" on behalf of the customer.
- Coach and Mentor technical team members.
- Ensure Pega PRPC application/ solution is scalable robust
- Work closely with the Product Owner in ensuring that the project deliverables and client business objectives are completely met.
- Technical understanding of interface/ integration technologies and deep understanding of customer''s needs so that they can be transformed into project design implementation
Required Skills- Pega PRPC DCO, Requirement Management experience, preferably on Pega (PEGA Infinity)
- Pega PRPC Insurance Implementation/ Solution Development Experience on Pega (PEGA Infinity)
- Project Implementation and design experience on Pega PRPC Insurance Frameworks.
- Minimum of 6 years experience in a similar role as Pega PRPC Developer
- A PEGA Lead System Architect certification is mandatory.
- Any domain knowledge Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Energy Utilities.
- Used to work in an International and Multi-cultural setting.
- Understanding and knowledge of current enterprise-wide technologies including Open Source, web application development and databases (DB/2, Oracle, SQL)
- Agile/ Scrum project implementation experience is mandatory.
Personal qualifications- Good communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical IT stakeholders.
- Effectively communicating with internal teams and clients to deliver all technical (functional and non-functional requirements)
- Strategic thinking
- Strong problem-solving ability with a positive "can-do" attitude
- Independent and self-motivated personality
- Ability to guide technical teams of system architects.
- Certification CLSA from Pegasystems on Pega (PEGA Infinity)/PEGA Infinity is mandatory.
What we offer- A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience.
- Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning.
- NS business card to cover your commute expenses.
- 25 days of paid holiday per year.
- A laptop and a smartphone.
- A pension scheme.
- Hybrid working environment
- Organization driv