Lead Pega Infrastructure Service Engineer Senior Advisor

The  Lead Pega Infrastructure Service Engineer Senior Advisor  performs analysis and research of systems and networks and reviews detailed business and technical requirements in order to recommend technical solutions.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to :

• Act as Lead Pega Infrastructure Engineer for high volume Claims Processing Pega Environment.

• Evaluate merits and risks of upgrades; coordinate with appropriate staff to execute smoke test for deployed applications.

• Generate appropriate system level documentation and knowledge base training documentation, deployment guide, system monitoring build guide, smoke test guide, etc.

• Ensure all applications developed have a high degree of integrity, reliability and availability to meet the requirements of the online transaction processing environment.

• Provide technical expertise, guidance, advice and knowledge transfer to all support staff on all aspects of client/server computing, programming, database technology, networking within a multi-protocol environment.

• Build DevOps pipelines as per the defined guidelines using a combination of open source and proprietary toolset.

• Provide second level engineering design functions.

• Develop complex solutions from business requirements and architectural specifications.

• Create presentations and seek IT management's approval and acceptance of significant replacements or reconfigurations of major business systems serving a business unit or location.

• Direct the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture). Consults with application leaders to verify applications/technology conform to architecture standards.

• Set vendor strategy and direction; oversees adherence.

• Design and engineer comprehensive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards; works with architecture to update technology direction and strategy.

• Research relevant trends and activities in healthcare, business, competition and regulatory environments; recommends strategy adjustments.

• Serve as technical merger and acquisition lead as needed.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in information systems, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management; significant experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experience

• Pega System Architect Certification or other PEGA Certification preferred.

• Experience with containerization, container orchestration and working with distributed systems.

• Strong experience building Pega PRPC environment, configuration and troubleshooting.In depth experience implementing Pega PRPC on Linux based systems.

• Experience defining node classifications on the environment.

• Strong knowledge on performance tuning of the platform.

• Experience integrating with external systems using industry standard protocols such REST, SOAP, JMS.

• Experience working in an Agile environment.

• Experience with building a variety of highly available redundant Enterprise and Open-source Middleware application servers, configuration and troubleshooting.

• Hands on skill working on Oracle Exadata.

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.