Pega Application Engineer

Our Information Technology department is seeking a Senior Application Engineer with Pega experience to join our growing team.

Position Overview

• The successful candidate will support project focused on Pega Constellation implementations.
• Provide technology-enabled solutions to address complex business problems.
• Will apply PEGA technical knowledge, capabilities, and development skills to design and build efficient PEGA solutions to enable business strategies.
• Work closely with other information technologists to produce high-quality, IT-enabled applications, products and services.
• Responsible for the overall technical implementation of applications, and frequently interact with internal and external partners, onshore and offshore staff.

In This Role, You May

• Interprets simple to complex technical designs and creates the technical specifications or over sees the creation of the technical specifications.
• Develops, maintains, troubleshoots, enhances and documents components
• Assists Project Manager in project coordination
• Provides technical direction for the development team.
• Creates and coordinates the developer tasks and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Is responsible for managing technical risks throughout the project.
• Communicates and enforces coding standards
• Performs code reviews and mentors’ junior developers.
• Manages technical resources within budget and project schedule.
• Works with technical leadership to perform evaluations and feasibility reviews of creative concepts and technology solutions.
• Proactively work with resource managers to ensure that appropriate staffing resources are assigned, put in place and effectively utilized at the appropriate time.
• Works closely with quality assurance resources to create test plans and ensure that issues are properly assigned, fixed, and regressed
• Defines and disseminates technology best practices
• Seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships
• Keeps project managers well informed of status of development effort.
• Easily recognizes system deficiencies and implements effective solutions.
• Promotes code and supports setup of multiple test environments.
• Drives Collaboration between project team members, including external and offshore resources, during development process.
• Contributes to technical approach and design.
• Stays current and builds in-depth knowledge of at least one or more programming language, systems applications, and related development tools.
• Provides subject matter expertise to individuals and projects
• Troubleshoots problems across domains and integration points.
• Drives process improvements efforts
• Coordinates, composes, and delivers training for Software delivery resources.
• Fosters and encourages an environment that practices calculated risk taking
• Self-development and ownership.
• Build knowledge of P&C concepts and application systems.
• Takes necessary measures to avoid centralization of knowledge.

What You Need to Apply

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of experience developing web-based Java/J2EE applications
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented design and methodologies
• JavaScript, AngularJS, AJAX, JQuery, CSS and HTML5.
• Industry Certifications like pega CLSA is a plus
• Experience with Pega. Constellation , Constellation SDKs, Custom Component development .
• Experience with devops tools.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Ability to analyze and creatively solve complex problems
• Ability to effectively prioritize, lead, and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Flexible in working under changing and different work settings.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Initiative, adaptive, and willingness to learn
• Understands how to tactfully communicate difficult/sensitive information.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a variety of sources
• Ability to juggle multiple projects/customers simultaneously.
• Versatile; comfortable performing a variety of roles and tasks within the company
• Strong written and oral communication skills to a variety of audiences at different levels and with different backgrounds.
• Thrives on learning and learns quickly. Dedicated to self-improvement and professional development. Takes advantage of various resources to self-educate.

Technical Skills

• Pega 24
• React
• Java
• Tomcat
• Understanding of Object-Oriented software development principles
• UX experience knowledge
• CCS3, HTML5
• Agile methodologies
• JSON