Pega Lead System Architect (LSA) | Fully Remote | Contract to March 2027
Location: Fully Remote
Contract: Until March 2027, with potential extension
Start: ASAP
Openings: 5
Language: English B2+
German: Nice to have
The Opportunity
We are looking for experienced Pega Lead System Architects (LSAs) to join a major international public-sector digitalisation programme.
Our client has selected Pega as a strategic platform for its digitalisation strategy and is building a greenfield solution for a business process that is planned to be rolled out across approximately 150 countries.
With the programme expanding, we are looking to onboard 5 Pega LSAs who can combine strong architectural leadership with hands-on Pega engineering.
This is not a purely governance or high-level architecture position. You will remain close to the technology, helping shape the solution while providing technical direction across multiple delivery streams.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Pega Lead System Architect, you will:
- Provide architectural leadership and oversee the technical direction of Pega solutions
- Support multiple parallel delivery streams
- Design, build and maintain enterprise-grade application components on the Pega platform
- Design and implement end-to-end case lifecycles, data models, business logic and UI
- Design and implement integrations using REST, SOAP and file-based interfaces
- Ensure solutions adhere to Pega guardrails, design patterns and engineering best practices
- Participate in solution design, estimation and refinement sessions
- Conduct technical and code reviews
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to Pega developers
- Work closely with Business Architects, QA, DevOps and other engineering specialists
- Contribute to continuous improvement, DevOps practices and engineering standards
- Help establish scalable solutions suitable for a complex international rollout
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Pega Lead System Architect certification
- 7+ years of hands-on Pega development experience
- Strong experience designing and developing enterprise-grade Pega applications
- Strong practical knowledge of Pega 8.x
- Experience with:
- Case types and case lifecycle
- Flows and business rules
- Data modelling and data pages
- Pega UI
- REST integrations
- SOAP integrations
- Strong understanding of Pega architecture, guardrails, design patterns and development best practices
- Previous experience providing technical or architectural leadership
- Experience supporting or overseeing developers and conducting code reviews
- Ability to work effectively across multiple delivery streams
- Comfortable working within an international, multidisciplinary delivery environment
- English B2+
Nice to Have
- Pega Constellation experience
- German language skills
- Experience with large-scale international or multi-country programmes
- Public-sector experience
- Experience delivering greenfield Pega solutions
- Strong DevOps/CI/CD exposure within a Pega environment
