We’re looking for a Lead Pega Engineer to be the principal technical authority and client-facing anchor for a dedicated four-person delivery pod: two onsite in Sydney and two offshore. You’ll bridge client enterprise architecture, business product owners and the delivery team. This is a fully hands-on role. You’ll write solution architecture documents, set case lifecycle patterns, enforce guardrails and build high-complexity components yourself, while directing offshore sprint execution.
What you’ll do
- Solution architecture and design: Lead end-to-end Pega technical design, including application-layer cakes, enterprise-class structures, reusable rule architecture, and data virtualisation patterns.
- Client engagement: Facilitate Direct Capture of Objectives (DCO) sessions with Sydney-based product owners, business analysts and enterprise architects, and turn business requirements into robust technical specifications.
- Hands-on engineering: Build high-complexity case types, core decision frameworks, security models (RBAC/ABAC) and critical enterprise integrations.
- Pod governance: Steer the pod through daily technical reviews, govern code quality, keep guardrail scores above 95%, and resolve architectural bottlenecks.
- Integration and security: Architect secure, real-time integrations (REST/SOAP, OAuth2, Kafka/JMS, SSO) and lead downstream platform alignment.
- Release and DevOps: Work with client release management to define deployment pipelines, packaging strategies, and automated testing via Pega Deployment Manager.
- 8–12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 6 years in enterprise Pega Platform implementations
- Pega Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA), or CLSA Part 1 completed with a proven Lead Architect track record
- Expert knowledge of Pega 8.x and Pega ‘23+, Enterprise Class Structure, Case Management, Decisioning, Constellation UI / Theme Cosmos, and performance tuning (DB Trace, PAL, PLA)
- A track record of client-facing consulting in the Australian enterprise market, such as financial services, insurance, telecommunications or the public sector
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and executive presentation skills
