Requisition ID: 577417
Title: Pega Lead Business Architect
Client: State of NJ
Location: Trenton, NJ
Duration: 6+ Months
Engagement Type: Contract
Interview Type: In Person only
No of Openings: 1
Short Description : The LBA will lead multiple teams consisting of developers, subject experts and stakeholders to convert the business requirements, process flow, use cases and the supporting integration documents into a fully functional application that meets user needs.
Job Description Summary:
- Must have 3 years of work experience POST PEGA Business Architect certification.
- 4-year college degree or equivalent technical study
Summary :
Pega Lead Business Architect will act as a technical and concept expert for the creation of a COE (Center of Excellence).. This individual will be responsible to work with testing/standards group and the leadership team jointly charting standards and best practices based on modified BPM development methodology and Pega platform adoption.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in working within an established COE or helping to create a new COE.
The primary function of this position will involve the creation of standards and best practices for a newly created COE. Cross training existing business analysis on this new methodology will be secondary focus.
Experience Required:
- 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 7 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