Role Overview
The Pega Lead System Architect (LSA) role adds enterprise technical leadership, architectural oversight, complex problem resolution, guidance and support for technical teams, code and design reviews, and use of modern principles, methodologies, and tools to advance financial operations and dispute management initiatives. Lead Pega LSA with deep architectural expertise, enterprise framework customization experience, and rigorous technical leadership.
Creates and leads the enterprise technical design, scalability planning, and overarching architecture of Pega-based payment solutions, specifically leveraging Pega Smart Investigate for Payments (PSI). Proposes & designs robust software solutions to address complex banking operational needs and high-volume transaction scaling. Prepares enterprise technical and architectural documentation required. Facilitates complex problem resolution across distributed enterprise integrations, database optimizations, and high-load frameworks. Provides technical guidance and mentorship to development teams and architects. Reviews enterprise design patterns, code, testing strategies, and technical documentation. Applies modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance payment processing capabilities, system resilience, and architectural governance.
Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized banking solutions.
Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with enterprise architecture, secure data transmission, and high-volume transaction processing to ensure they adhere to and support the company's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Troubleshooting - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
Application Delivery Process - Extensive Experience
Application Design, Architecture - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
Application Development Tools - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
Application Testing - Extensive Experience
Packaged Application Integration - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
System Development Lifecycle - Extensive Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
- 10+ Years of overall IT experience with 7+ years specializing in Pega design, architecture, and implementation, preferably in a large banking / financial institution environment focusing on payment exception processing.
Active Pega Certified Lead System Architect (LSA) certification
Pega Inifinity / Constellation Experience
Deep expertise in Pega Smart Investigate for Payments (PSI) framework architecture and customization
Enterprise Application Architecture and Design Patterns
Performance Tuning, High Availability (HA), and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies
Complex Enterprise Integrations (REST, SOAP, MQ, Kafka)
Process Improvement
Release Management
Software Solutions and Design
Application Development
Design and architecture familiarity/experience
Business and Team Management
Group Problem Solving
Customer Engagement and Solutions Oriented
Preferred Qualifications
Banking experience
Financial institution experience
Understanding regulatory and risk controls
Locations: Pittsburgh, PA
About Techstra Solutions
Techstra Solutions is a certified woman-owned (WBENC) management consulting firm specializing in strategy, technology, and implementation services for large organizations undergoing digital and talent transformation. Our experienced team partners with clients to co-create innovative solutions in applications, data, AI, and automation that accelerate measurable, sustainable change. From advisory consulting through technical execution, we are dedicated to driving world-class business solutions that fit your strategic requirements and deliver results. For more information: www.techstrasolutions.com
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of overall IT experience
- 7+ years specializing in Pega design, architecture, and implementation
- Experience in large banking or financial institution environments focused on payment exception processing
- Active Pega Certified Lead System Architect certification
- Pega Infinity and Constellation experience
- Deep expertise in Pega Smart Investigate for Payments framework architecture and customization
- Enterprise application architecture and design patterns experience
- Performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
- Complex enterprise integrations using REST, SOAP, MQ, and Kafka
- Process improvement experience
- Release management experience
- Software solutions, design, and application development experience
- Business and team management skills
- Group problem-solving skills
- Customer engagement and solutions-oriented approach
- Banking experience
- Financial institution experience
- Understanding of regulatory and risk controls
What We Do
Techstra Solutions is a certified woman-owned consulting firm that provides strategy, technology and implementation support to large organizations undergoing digital and talent transformation. The rapid pace of technology innovation required to remain competitive, juxtaposed with the slow rate of change in many organizations, causes most to struggle. To be successful companies must drive new ways of working including the use of technology/analytics and new skillsets (hard/soft) deep into their culture so that they are able to rapidly and continuously react to change. They must also apply new approaches that empower their employees, ensuring its sustainability. At Techstra Solutions we focus on four key areas, otherwise known as the 4 A’s: Automation (Robotic Process Automation (RPA)/Intelligent Automation), Analytics (Reporting/Analytics/AI/ML), Application Modernization (Cloud, Mobility, etc), and Agile-based solutions (DevOps).
