Pega Lead Architect

Atos is seeking a Pega Lead Architect to own the overall Pega solution architecture, translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable designs, and provide hands-on technical leadership to Pega development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture and technical design of Pega applications.
• Lead solution design across case management, workflows, data models, integrations, security, and user experience.
• Define application architecture, reusable components, enterprise design patterns, and implementation standards.
• Provide technical leadership to Pega Senior System Architects, System Architects, and development teams.
• Review solution designs and implementation approaches for compliance with Pega guardrails and engineering best practices.
• Lead complex technical design decisions and resolve architecture and performance challenges.
• Design scalable integration patterns using REST APIs, services, connectors, data pages, messaging, and enterprise integration technologies.
• Define authentication, authorization, access control, and security architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, availability, resilience, security, and maintainability requirements.
• Establish application monitoring, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting approaches.
• Define DevOps, CI/CD, branching, deployment, and release management approaches for Pega applications.
• Support production readiness, deployment planning, and technical assurance activities.
• Work with Business Architects, Product Owners, Enterprise Architects, Security Architects, and Integration Architects.
• Lead technical workshops and communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor Pega engineers and support engineering capability across delivery teams.
• Perform design and code reviews and manage technical debt.
• Support estimation, delivery planning, technical risk management, and dependency management.
• Act as the Pega technical authority and escalation point throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise applications using the Pega Platform.
• Experience as a Pega Lead System Architect or Solution Architect on large and complex programmes.
• Deep knowledge of Pega case management, application architecture, data modelling, and integration.
• Experience with REST APIs, integration services, connectors, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience designing secure Pega solutions, including authentication, authorization, and role-based or attribute-based access controls.
• Knowledge of Pega performance optimisation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Pega DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and enterprise deployment approaches.
• Experience delivering solutions in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to lead multiple Pega development teams and provide architecture governance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Certification

Mandatory: Certified Pega Lead System Architect (CPLSA/CLSA).

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Pega Infinity '24/'25 or later.
• Experience with Pega Constellation architecture and DX API.

Essential Criteria – SC Eligibility

To be eligible for SC clearance, you must have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the past 5 years.

Benefits

• Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• 25 days paid leave plus national holidays
• Flexible benefits programme

Atos supports an inclusive recruitment process and provides reasonable adjustments where required.