Senior Pega Developer

New York Life Insurance•Tampa, FL

65d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience as a software developer or a related occupation, delivering scalable, cost-effective solutions aligned with organizational goals.
Experience must include developing, maintaining, and enhancing Pega platforms.
Experience developing Pega multi-channel platforms using Pega tools and capabilities, such as BIX, conversational and self-service channel integrations, and Pega Diagnostic Cloud (PDC).
Experience upgrading Pega platforms, including performing version upgrades, conducting impact analysis, remediating rules, refactoring applications, executing regression and performance testing, and supporting post-upgrade stabilization.
Experience integrating with internal and external systems using APIs, such as Mule, Rest, and SOAP.
Experience working with relational databases, such as Oracle and PostgresSQL.
Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues, integration failures, and data-related problems using standard Pega diagnostic and logging tools.
Experience 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.