Lead Pega Systems Architect – Start ASAP – 12 months – Hybrid – Germany

• Practice Development & Integration

• Technologies Design Development Skills

• Location Frankfurt, Germany

• Type Contract

Lead Pega Systems Architect - Start ASAP - 12 months - Hybrid - Germany

Role : Lead Pega Systems Architect

Location: Frankfurt Germany (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Language Requirement : Fluent  German and English speaker

Summary of Position

·       The Lead Systems Architect (LSA) is the senior technical authority responsible for designing, integrating, and scaling Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH) solutions within a client’s enterprise ecosystem. The LSA specializes in backend system integrations; ensuring real-time, reliable, secure, and high-volume data exchange between CDH and customer platforms such as CRM, MDM, billing, data lakes, marketing clouds, event hubs, and channel systems.

·       This role provides architectural leadership, establishes integration standards, and ensures the technical integrity and performance of all CDH-related services.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture & Integration Design

·       Architect end-to-end integration patterns between Pega CDH and enterprise systems using REST/JSON, SOAP, Kafka, MQ, SFTP, and ETL pipelines

·       Define high-level and detailed architecture blueprints, including data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, integration specifications, and deployment architectures

·       Ensure integrations support real-time decisioning, high throughput, low latency, and high availability across all customer touchpoints

·       Select and enforce standards for authentication, authorization, encryption, error handling, retries, logging, and API versioning

Technical Leadership & Delivery Oversight

·       Serve as the technical lead for integration workstreams across all environments (Dev → Prod)

·       Review and approve all system integration designs, mappings, and interface specifications

·       Guide developers and architects in building scalable and reusable components

·       Ensure delivered integrations align with enterprise security, compliance, and architectural governance

CDH Enablement & Ecosystem Orchestration

·       Design data sourcing strategies for interaction history, customer profile feeds, decisioning data, and AI model inputs

·       Collaborate with Decisioning Architects and Data Architects to ensure integrations enable real-time eligibility, suitability, arbitration, and propensity scoring

·       Optimize container behavior for inbound channels including web, mobile, contact center, ATM/kiosk, and IVR

Client Engagement & Advisory

·       Lead workshops with IT, enterprise architects, and application owners to define integration requirements

·       Present architectural recommendations, integration patterns, and trade-offs to executive and technical stakeholders

·       Troubleshoot complex integration issues, identify root causes, and drive long-term resolutions

Quality, Performance & Governance

·       Define non-functional requirements (NFRs) including performance benchmarks, throughput thresholds, and resiliency SLAs

·       Oversee performance testing, failover validation, environment readiness, and capacity planning

·       Ensure solutions adhere to SDLC best practices and are built for maintainability and scale

Required Experience & Skills

·       8+ years of architecture experience in enterprise systems, customer platforms, or integration engineering

·       5+ years in Pega Platform or Pega CDH delivery, preferably in an LSA or senior integration role

·       Deep expertise in RESTful service design, event-based architectures, and API/microservices frameworks

·       Strong understanding of relational/NoSQL databases, real-time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), and middleware

·       Proficiency with security standards, high-availability patterns, and cloud-native architectures

·       Ability to translate business requirements into robust, scalable integration solutions

·       Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences

Preferred / Certifications

Certified Pega Lead System Architect (CLSA) required

·       Experience with enterprise marketing technology, CDPs, CRMs, and data hub architectures

·       Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are a plus

For more info please call Matt on +442075494034 or Matt@next-ventures.com

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