Software Engineer - Pega

Pegasystems Software Engineer 2 

At U.S. Bank, we're passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. 

Job Description 

• Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires, and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we're one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We're looking for people who want more than just a job - they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey. 
   
  This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles. 
   
  Essential Responsibilities: 
  - Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products. 
  - Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code. 
  - Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs. 
  - Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront. 
  - Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures. 
  - Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices. 
  - Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards. 
  - Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation. 
  - Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. 
  - Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation. 

• Basic Qualifications 
  - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience 
  - five to seven years of relevant experience 
   
  Primary Preferred Skills/Experience 

• Five plus years’ experience with Pega Infinity 8.x greater and supporting frameworks (CPM; Collections) 

• Pega certified system architect (CSSA) or higher strongly preferred 

• Experience in DevOps CI/CD pipeline and cloud 

• Object-oriented programming background (java or .NET) 

• Tomcat and IBM WebSphere admin and tuning 

• Web Services / WSDL / SOAP / JMS, preferably via Tibco middleware, Rest, and GraphQL 

• Database connectivity, preferably exposure to IBM UDB 10.X or greater and PostGreSQL DB experience. 

• Experience with AWS telephony integration including IVR, Screen-Pop, chat and softphone. 

• Experience working in Agile methodology  

• Demonstrated experience in developing and integrating complex software solutions in the financial services industry, credit card and collections system experience a plus 

Secondary Preferred Skills/Experience 

• Pega Customer Decision Hub experience. 

• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Kafka, streaming integrations)  

• Experience in cloud-native deployments (AWS/Azure/PegaCloud) and modernization initiatives 

• Experience in DevOps CI/CD pipeline and integration with Pega Deployment Mgr, containerized deployments and Ansible scripting.