Job Description :
JOB TITLE: PEGA Certified Business Architect
LENGTH: Long term – possible funding extension in FY 2019- 2020
START DATE: 02.15.19
JOB Location: Trenton, NJ
PEGA Certified Business Architect with 4-year college degree or equivalent technical study
Must have a PEGA Business Architect certification. A copy will be required of the Transcript or Certification.
JOB Summary:
Pega Lead Business Architect will act as a liaison between the business users, stakeholders and technologists. This individual will be responsible to work with Lead System Architect and Leadership team jointly charting business and technical strategies.
This position will have the opportunity to exercise a variety of skill sets while participating in software development and systems integration projects for a wide variety of users and stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in requirements gathering, tracking, and analysis with an ability to communicate the information to both technical and non-technical professionals.
The primary function of this position will involve the evaluation of user needs and development and implementation of technological solutions to solve those needs
Required Experience:
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 9 or more yrs.
A minimum of 7 years of related business analysis
A minimum of 7 Use Case Development
A minimum of 2-3 years experience as a PEGA Business Architect with 3 years of current certification.
Broad experience in an organization that develops and delivers software to customers
Managing software functional requirements throughout the SDLC • Participation in an Agile software development environment
Working with users/stakeholders to understand and capture software solution needs
Configuration and deployment of software solutions at the enterprise level
Documentation of requirements, test cases, and training material Role Responsibilities:
Acts as the liaison between Business and Technology teams and have ability to translate between technical and non-technical team members.
Works closely with Business Product Owners and Stakeholders, ATCSU and Lead Business Analysts to gather user stories and translate into business requirements.
A wide degree of creativity and initiative is expected.
Understands the business vision and translates to Technology impacts/solutions.
Work with Technology teams to come up with solutions that meet Business needs.
Proactively identifies and mitigates risk to projects.
Performs multiple roles as needed during the course of the project.
Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills.
Solid experience with business process modeling and change management
Solid experience with documenting requirements, functional design and leading test execution.
Partner with internal stakeholders and customers to understand business problems to be solved
Capture functional software requirements and translate into user stories
Coordinate with Product Manager and stakeholders to facilitate backlog reviews
Participate in Agile software development sprints and sprint planning activities
Lead agile teams and processes as necessary
Define solution acceptance criteria and assist in software testing
Publish software release notes and maintain other product documentation
Develop and maintain solution training material
Mentor Business Analysts and other Software Development team members
Integrate best practices into current working procedures
Lead client workshops around software products and processes
Participate in and provide support to customer success teams
Create wireframe designs for functional requirements
Conduct process and product training as needed
Other duties as assigned
IT technical background a plus.