Senior Pega Developer

New York Life•Tampa, FL

1d•$157,851 - $191,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves leading the design, development, and support of business applications using the Pega platform. The Senior Pega Developer will provide leadership, technical expertise, and business knowledge to the Pega development team, focusing on detailed design and development, as well as support activities. The position requires leading the development and maintenance of cost-effective application software, utilizing knowledge of tools, concepts, and principles to construct and deliver software that meets customer business needs on the Pega platform, adhering to Pega best practices. The role also entails taking ownership, directing, planning, managing, scheduling, and reporting status on assigned efforts related to the development, implementation, support, and maintenance of systems across internal development platforms. Collaboration with internal customers and other Systems department personnel is key to designing, developing, and maintaining business applications that effectively support NYL Direct Operations. Proactively identifying and recommending opportunities to apply Pega technologies to business processes is also a core responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent).
Five (5) years of experience as a software developer or a related occupation, delivering scalable, cost-effective solutions aligned with organizational goals.
Developing, maintaining, and enhancing Pega platforms.
Developing Pega multi-channel platforms using Pega tools and capabilities, such as BIX, conversational and self-service channel integrations, and Pega Diagnostic Cloud (PDC).
Upgrading Pega platforms, including performing version upgrades, conducting impact analysis, remediating rules, refactoring applications, executing regression and performance testing, and supporting post-upgrade stabilization.
Integrating with internal and external systems using APIs, such as Mule, Rest, and SOAP.
Working with relational databases, such as Oracle and PostgresSQL.
Diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues, integration failures, and data-related problems using standard Pega diagnostic and logging tools.
Delivering solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with the strategic vision of the Architecture/Development team and modern Pega best practices.
Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and support of business applications using the Pega platform.
Provide leadership, technical expertise and business knowledge spanning many processing platforms in the efforts of detailed design and development and/or support activities within the Pega development team.
Lead development and maintenance of cost-effective application software utilizing knowledge of tools, concepts, and principles to construct and deliver software in direct support of customer business needs in the Pega platform utilizing Pega best practices.
Take ownership, direct, plan, manage, schedule, and report status on assigned efforts involved in the development, implementation, support, and maintenance of systems across internal development platforms.
Interact with internal customers and other Systems department personnel to design, develop, and maintain business applications that effectively support the NYL Direct Operations.
Proactively identify and recommend opportunities to apply Pega technologies to business processes.