Pega Tech Lead

Purpose of the role

To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps.
• Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives.
• Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Pega Tech Lead at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Pega Tech Lead you should have experience with:

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Experience on PEGA 7, PEGA 8
• Enterprise Services (SAP, BPM - Pega, ECM - Filenet, OpenText)
• Strong in pega based application development and design principles.
• Must have prior experience in creating and debugging REST/SOAP webservices and connectors.
• Strong understanding WAS, JBoSS and Tomcat servers
• Preferably CLSA certified or played role in capacity of leading pega projects as solution architect.
• Good knowledge on process flows, case types, case hierarchy, case dependency, parallel processing, complex routing.
• Experience in creating background process jobs in pega using queue processors & job schedulers.
• Experience in creating Declarative rules like declare expressions, decision trees & tables, data pages
• Experience in working on Pega BIX
• Experience in handling session management with cookies disabled, error handling and Database threading, using load balancers and single-sign-on like webseal integration
• Knowledge on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React
• Experience in writing Activities, data transform, functions.
• Experience using pega unit testing and scenario testing frameworks
• SQL query writing using Teradata and Oracle would be added advantage
• Working on several tasks on a variety of different projects at the same time.
• Proven ability to build effective internal relationships
• Awareness of innovative management information tools and systems
• Governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g., data security, records management,
• Strong analytical skills including ability to provide observations and comment
• Wider-thinking and problem solving – identifying and delivering reporting through own initiative.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Pune location.