Senior Pega Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior Pega Solution Architect 
Salary: £90,440 – £106,400
Location: Bristol
Hours: Full-time  
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.  

About us   

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!  
 

About this opportunity

This vacancy sits within our Commercial Banking division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation, and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join.

What you’ll do
 

• Working with Product Owners, Engineering Leads to understand requirements, designing the solutions and implementing them in Pega technology

• Provide alternative designs and recommend most suitable solution.

• Application Technical ownership involving Change management and Run Risk management.

• Meeting the organizational standards in building the solutions.

• Working with Enterprise architects and Pega Centre of Excellence Teams.

• Identify and provide ways to eliminate technical debt.

• Line Management and setting development goals for your team.

• Build of Proof of Value to foster innovation.

• Supporting wider delivery consideration e.g. risk management, planning, keeping documents current.

• Working closely with Centre of Excellence Team to identify the skill gaps and trainings plans for the team members.

• Networking and collaborating with other teams in the business unit to support in integration.

What you’ll need
 

• Significant experience in Pega development. Pega CLSA Certified

• Pega Cloud experience

• Ability to design and develop microjourneys using case management

• Deep knowledge in Data model design

• Experience in building REST/SOAP based integrations as a service and as a connector

• In-depth knowledge on security aspects Authentication, Authorization, JSON Web Tokens, Certs and Public-Key Cryptography concepts

• Knowledge on Pega GenAI, Constellation is required. Working knowledge is most suitable

• Knowledge on streaming solutions like Apacha Kafka

• Experience on monitoring tools like PAL, PDC, DB Trace

• Experience on debugging tools like Clipboard, Tracer, Live UI, Developer Tools in Browser, Postman/Bruno, SOAPUI

• Monitoring and Telemetry with Dynatrace, Splunk

Desirable Skills:
 

• AWS/GCP Cloud certification

• Experience of JIRA/Confluence and other tools and techniques such as DevOps.

• Awareness of Constellation and DX APIs

• Awareness on OpenBanking architecture

About working for us  

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.  

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.  

We're disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.  

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:  

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%  

• An annual performance-related bonus  

• Share schemes including free shares.  

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.  

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top  

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.  

Join our journey!