Pega Lead Developer

Title: Pega Lead Developer

Location: Charlotte NC - Hybrid

W2 Contract (This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship)

6 - 12 Months

In person interview

Job Summary:

• Client is seeking a hands-on Pega Lead Developer with strong expertise in Pega Case Management and system integrations.
• This role combines technical leadership with active development responsibilities.
• The ideal candidate will design and build high-quality Pega solutions while helping team members, enforcing best practices, and partnering closely with architects, product owners, and integration teams.

Technical Leadership and Delivery:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of Pega applications, with a strong emphasis on case management and workflow orchestration
• Actively contribute to development (rules, flows, integrations, UI, decisioning) as a hands-on lead, not just oversight
• Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable Pega designs
• Ensure solutions align with Pega Guardrails, performance standards, and enterprise architecture guidelines

Case Management Expertise:

• Design and implement end-to-end case lifecycles, including stages, steps, SLAs, approvals, and escalations
• Leverage case types, subcases, spin-offs, and wait shapes effectively
• Optimize user experience for case workers using Pega UX (sections, views, dashboards)

System Integration:

• Collaborate with downstream and upstream system teams to define interface contracts
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration and performance issues

Design and implement integrations using:

• REST and SOAP services
• Connectors and Services
• Pega Integration Patterns (Sync/Async, Queue Processors, etc.)

Mentorship and Team Enablement

• Mentor and support junior and mid-level developers through code reviews, hands-on guidance
• Set coding standards and reusable assets to improve team efficiency

Quality, Performance and Operations

• Participate in code reviews, performance tuning, and defect resolution
• Support deployment activities and production troubleshooting when needed
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and operational standards

Required Qualifications:

• 5 plus years of Pega platform experience, with significant hands-on development
• Strong expertise in Pega Case Management
• Proven experience with Pega system integrations (REST/SOAP, services, connectors)
• Experience leading or mentoring development teams
• Pega certifications such as CSSA and/or CLSA

Solid understanding of:

• Pega rules engine
• Flow rules, decision tables, data pages
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Pega Infinity (latest versions preferred)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for Pega
• Knowledge of cloud
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Client Is Looking For:

• A hands-on leader who codes daily and leads by example
• Strong communicator who can work across technical and non-technical teams
• Problem-solver with a passion for building high-quality, scalable solutions

Top Skills:

• 9 plus years IT experience
• 5 plus years of hands on Pega engineering experience
• Complex case management (Jira/Confluence a plus)
• System integration (Rest API)

Nice to Have:

• CSSA certified
• Cloud migration experience nice to have, any cloud

In this contingent resource assignment, candidates may:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Additional:

• Have a product where they build and maintain multiple internal projects in TCOO, there are 14 apps being supported.
• This candidate may be assigned to multiple different apps, usually not more than 2 at a time.
• Will use Pega for workflow automation.
• Looking for Lead level experience capable of hands-on coding with Pega.
• Team should be able to go to this person for guidance, code review, advice.
• Are in the middle of the cloud migration, someone with cloud migration experience would be a plus.
• Have seen a lot of coordinators who haven t been hands on coders.
• Are not looking for a middleman, need to be able to do the coding work, not people who have managed the team.
• Finance experience isn't a strong consideration, should be from an enterprise level organization.

Regards,

Rajesh