SC Cleared Pega Lead System Architect

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

Responsibilities:

• 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

Technologies:

• API
• Architect
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Support
• REST
• Security

More:

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 38 week of 2026