Senior Pega Developer

AEGIS•Jersey City, NJ

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc. (“AEGIS”) has an immediate opening for a Senior Application Developer, Pega responsible for identifying, evaluating, and introducing new technologies and applications in line with the company’s technology strategy and roadmap. The Senior Application Developer, Pega, in conjunction with the Architects and the Chief Enterprise Architect, partners with both business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions align with the company’s overall objectives and meet the needs of the company’s mission and vision. Works as a part of the development teams providing support to new/existing systems of high complexity and scope. The Senior Application Developer, Pega is responsible for fully understanding the Pega application environment and perform application design for all applications within the team.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of Pega development experience with experience evaluating, developing, and implementing complex software systems.
Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex solutions.
Undergraduate degree in Computer or Data Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Demonstrated analytical thinking for problem resolution and process development.
Solid understanding of problem resolution, application monitoring and troubleshooting, including basic knowledge of network principles.
Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, applications, and systems engineering.
Ability to translate business needs into efficient technology solutions.
Strong project management and organization skills.

Nice To Haves

Develops and maintains effective working relationships as a team member and across divisions; readily collaborates and shares information, seeks and provides constructive feedback, and supports a respectful workplace.
Proactively addresses opportunities to enhance AEGIS’ people, processes, products, and services, takes ownership for one’s responsibilities by acting with integrity and in the best interest of the organization and stakeholders.
Demonstrates a solution-focus, displays thoroughness and accuracy through quality deliverables, and demonstrates persistence and perseverance in achieving concrete and tangible outcomes.
Conveys a genuine desire and ability to anticipate and meet customer needs and creates and nurtures mutually beneficial relationships within AEGIS and with AEGIS Members and brokers.

Responsibilities

Identifying, evaluating, and introducing new technologies and applications in line with the company’s technology strategy and roadmap.
Partnering with business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions align with the company’s overall objectives and meet the needs of the company’s mission and vision.
Providing support to new/existing systems of high complexity and scope as part of the development teams.
Fully understanding the Pega application environment and performing application design for all applications within the team.
Introducing technology in support of the long-term strategic roadmap for IT systems.
Partnering with business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions align with the company’s overall objectives and ensure that both groups enable and drive each other to meet the needs of the company’s mission and vision.
Seamlessly integrating business and service strategy into enterprise architecture roadmap.
Supporting the Chief Enterprise Architect’s efforts to develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
Staying abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the industry and marketplace.
Supporting, resolving, and documenting issues that arise in the architecture, which may include reviewing designs and recommending improvements to the architecture.
Sharing/leveraging successful products, processes, and best practices across the technology organization.
Leading the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects.
Partnering with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
Participating in the evaluation and implementation of vendor software and tools.
Coordinating training and providing leadership/guidance to team members.
Serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the software product, tools, and techniques utilized, employing them with a high level of proficiency.
Developing secure coding & secure design principles and training developers on secure coding practices.
Conducting technical research, testing, evaluation, and documentation of routine hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
Collecting and reviewing system data for capacity and planning purposes.
Analyzing capacity data and developing capacity plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems.
Monitoring application logs and alerts to ensure system health and optimal use of resources.