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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:
Rajesh
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.
- 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
- 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)
- Collaborate with downstream and upstream system teams to define interface contracts
- Troubleshoot and resolve integration and performance issues
- REST and SOAP services
- Connectors and Services
- Pega Integration Patterns (Sync/Async, Queue Processors, etc.)
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level developers through code reviews, hands-on guidance
- Set coding standards and reusable assets to improve team efficiency
- 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
- 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
- Pega rules engine
- Flow rules, decision tables, data pages
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- CSSA certified
- Cloud migration experience nice to have, any cloud
- 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.
- 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.
Rajesh