Pegasystems Senior Software Engineer

Job Role: Pegasystems Senior Software Engineer
Location: Minneapolis, MN, Denver, TX & Atlanta, GA (Onsite)
Duration: 5-month contract

Essential Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products.
- Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code.
- Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs.
- Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront.
- Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures.
- Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices.
- Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards.
- Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation.
- Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- 8 to 10 years of relevant experience

Primary Preferred Skills/Experienc
Six plus years experience with Pega Infinity 8.x or greater and supporting frameworks (CPM; Collections)
Hands-on expertise in AI-powered customer engagement, adaptive decisioning, and predictive analytics.
Pega certified senior system architect (CSSA) or (LSA) strongly preferred
Pega migration experience preferred.
Experience in DevOps CI/CD pipeline and integration with Pega Deployment Mgr.
Very good Cloud experience ( Kubernetes, AWS, Azure or PegaCloud )
Object-oriented programming background (java or .NET)
ToClientat and IBM WebSphere admin and tuning.
Web Services / WSDL / SOAP / JMS, preferably via Tibco middleware, Rest, and GraphQL
Database connectivity, preferably exposure to IBM UDB 10.X or greater and PostGreSQL DB experience.
Experience with AWS telephony integration including IVR, Screen-Pop, chat and softphone.
Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, streaming integrations)
Exposure to working in Agile methodology
Demonstrated experience in developing and integrating complex software solutions in the financial services industry, credit card and collections system experience a plus.
Experience leading team sizes of three or more engineers.
o Peer code review
o Solution and development guidance.