Pega Business Architect Lead

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. Are you ready for your next career challenge?

The Digital Modernization Sector is focused on delivering performance-based IT services and repeatable solutions. Our team is solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with "can't fail" missions. To explore and learn more, click here The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Pega Business Architect Lead to work in our Maryland office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the US government customer operate, maintain, modernize and transform its legacy system.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Pega Business Architect Lead is senior role that acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams to define and implement Pega solutions.

Responsibilities shall include, but are not limited to:

• Translating business needs into technical requirements, managing the software development lifecycle, and guiding both technical and non-technical teams to ensure project goals are met.

• Acts as the primary communication point, translating business objectives into actionable requirements for developers and explaining technical constraints to business users.

• Elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements, and works with leadership to define business and technical strategies.

• Manages functional requirements throughout the software development lifecycle and participates in Agile/Scrum processes, including sprint planning and backlog grooming.

• Collaborates with technology teams to design solutions that meet business objectives, often involving creating process flows, use cases, and wireframes.

• Mentors' junior business analysts and promote best practices within the team.

• Create and perform analysis of SLA/TPM/KPI metrics for reporting and delivery.

• Perform business process modeling, workflow and diagram creation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems and a min of 8-12 years of relevant prior experience

• At least 5 years' experience with Pega with at least 2 years using Pega Cloud

• Ability to obtain Public Trust

• Certified Pega Business Architect

• Strong background in business analysis, requirements gathering, and use case development.

• Experience working in a software development environment, and a strong understanding of the Pega Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Experience enhancing performance with automation, AIOps and/or scalability methods

• Pega large system design, management, data migration and integration experience

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.

• Experience with business process modeling and change management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum SAFe methodologies

• Data Quality and validation experience

• Pega Certified Lead System Architect

• Experience with HCD and UI/UX

• Experience working on US government contracts

• Experience with Pega Customer Service

At Leidos, we don't want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, "what's next?" before the dust settles on "what's now."

If you're already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You'll fit right in.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.