Role: Pega Lead Business Architect (LBA)
Work Model: Onsite
Work Location: Mississauga, ON
Salary Range: $100,000 – $130,000

Job Description

Lead business architecture, requirements, and functional solution design for enterprise Pega transformation initiatives in banking, serving as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

Experience

- 10+ years IT

- 8–10 years Pega

Domain

- 8+ years Banking

- 3+ years AML/KYC

Certification

- Pega CLBA & CSSA mandatory

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

- 10+ years of IT experience, including 8–10 years of hands-on Pega PRPC experience across Pega 7.x/8.x and Pega Infinity 23.x/24.x/25.x.

- 8+ years in Banking and Financial Services, including at least 3 years in AML/KYC, compliance, customer due diligence, or related operations.

- Pega Certified Lead Business Architect (CLBA) required; PCBA and CSSA are preferred.

- Experience delivering enterprise workflow, case management, and globally distributed programs.

Must-Have Technical & Functional Skills

- Pega Constellation UI, Pega Blueprint, Case Management, workflow automation, decisioning, and business rules.

- Customer Service framework experience; exposure to Smart Investigate and Smart Dispute.

- Business process modeling, journey mapping, requirements elicitation, user stories, use cases, gap analysis, and process reengineering.

- Working knowledge of Pega flows, UI rules, data pages, correspondence, data models, and REST/SOAP integrations.

- Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Jira, Kanban, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and UAT.

- Strong banking knowledge across AML/KYC,



compliance, onboarding, investigations, disputes, and customer service operations.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and requirements sessions; translate business needs into scalable Pega features and prioritized backlogs.

- Define current-state and future-state processes, journey maps, business rules, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and traceability.

- Partner with Product Owners, Pega System Architects, and developers to align functional design with enterprise architecture and delivery standards.

- Configure and validate workflows, case types, UI components, data pages, data models, and integrations; support Constellation-based modernization.

- Conduct gap analysis and recommend automation, process, control, and customer-experience improvements.

- Ensure adherence to Pega Guardrails, governance standards, and delivery best practices throughout the lifecycle.

- Manage Jira and Kanban structures; participate in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency/risk tracking.

- Coordinate daily with onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams and communicate status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders.

- Support system integration testing, UAT, defect triage, release readiness, deployment, and validation against business requirements.

Preferred Attributes

- Robust leadership, facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.

- Analytical and solution-oriented mindset with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions.

- Proven delivery experience across enterprise-scale banking, compliance, workflow, and case management solutions.

📌 Pega Lead Business Architect (Mississauga)
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