SC Cleared Pega Lead System Architect
Hays Technology · London, UK ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Architecture
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Active SC Clearance required
- Mandatory certification: Certified Pega Lead System Architect (CPLSA/CLSA)
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions using the Pega Platform
- Proven experience as a Pega Lead System Architect or Pega Solution Architect on large and complex programmes
- Deep expertise in Pega case management, application architecture, data modelling, and enterprise integrations
- Strong knowledge of Pega design principles, guardrails, and reusable architecture frameworks
- Experience designing and implementing REST API integrations, services, and connectors
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns
- Experience designing secure Pega solutions including authentication, authorisation, and role-based or attribute-based access controls
- Strong knowledge of performance optimisation, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Experience with Pega DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and enterprise deployment models
- Experience delivering within Agile/Scrum environments
- Ability to lead multiple development teams and provide architecture governance across workstreams
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills
- Ability to present complex technical concepts and architecture decisions to senior business and technology stakeholders
- Desirable: Experience with Pega Infinity 24/25 or later
- Own the overall architecture and technical design of Pega applications
- Lead solution design across case management, workflow, data models, integrations, security, and user experience
- Define application architecture, reusable components, enterprise design patterns, and implementation standards
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Pega architects and development teams
- Review solution designs and implementations to ensure compliance with Pega guardrails and engineering best practice
- Lead complex technical decision-making and resolve architectural and performance challenges
- Design scalable integration patterns using REST APIs, connectors, services, data pages, and enterprise integration technologies
- Define authentication, authorisation, access control, and security architecture
- Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, resilience, availability, and maintainability requirements
- Establish application monitoring, optimisation, and troubleshooting approaches
- Define CI/CD, DevOps, branching, deployment, and release-management strategies
- Support production readiness, deployment planning, and technical assurance activities
- Facilitate technical workshops and communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conduct design and code reviews while managing technical debt and technical risks
- Support estimation, delivery planning, dependency management, and governance activities
- API
- Architect
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Support
- REST
- Security
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We are seeking an experienced Pega Lead to take ownership of the overall Pega solution architecture and provide technical leadership across large-scale enterprise delivery for a public sector-focused programme. This is a remote-working contract role with a rate of £553 per day inside IR35 and a contract length to be confirmed. We offer the opportunity to lead architecture and delivery across a large-scale Pega programme.
last updated 40 week of 2026