Lead Solution Designer

Business Unit: Enterprise Systems
Salary range: £72,800 - £90,000 per annum
Location: UK, Remote, with occasional travel to our hubs in either Glasgow or Newcastle
Contract type: Permanent

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Our Team

We're on the lookout for an enthusiastic and skilled Pega Solution Designer to join our dynamic OEE team. We're a dedicated group with a singular focus: delivering cutting-edge technology to empower our colleagues to deliver top-notch customer service at lightning speed.

The OEE (Operations Engineering Efficiencies) is part of Enterprise Systems, closely partnering with various Operations teams to provide them with the technology systems that support our customers and colleagues. We have developed several critical products leveraging Pega over the years for Account Opening, Account Switching and several workflow and case management solutions across Mortgages, Business Banking, Personal Banking and more and currently have a program underway to migrate all our Pega on-prem applications to evergreen Pega Cloud platform on AWS.

We have an exciting opportunity for Lead Solution Designer who will be spearheading the design of the cloud migration of the Pega portfolio and ensure they are scalable, secure and efficient. If you are passionate about solving complex design problems across a wide range of business areas and enjoy engaging and collaborating with stakeholders, this role might be the perfect fit for you!

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver solution designs for applications in Pega suite that are migrating to Pega Cloud as part of Pega modernisation program in support of strategic and architectural direction.
• Review and be accountable for designs produced by other designers on the program
• Identify opportunities, define and implement reusable patterns for the migration.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to design solutions including stakeholders in security, networks, infrastructure teams.
• Ensure cloud designs are secure, scalable and optimised for performance and best practices and standards are followed.
• Assess business impact of certain technical choices.
• Ongoing support, direction, and governance of project delivery against agreed designs and assessment of the impact of change requests on the high-level design.
• Document all aspects of design, key decisions and analysis which serve as reference and record for future.

We need you to have

• Experience in a solution design role, with the ability to lead the strategic and technical direction of large and complex projects.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform and cloud integration.
• Good understanding of Pega’s architecture, tools and methodologies
• Exposure to Microservice and event driven architectures
• Good understanding of implementing Pega with other systems.
• Experience of ensuring cloud solution is secure and compliant.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Pega and Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are a plus.
• Experience in projects migrating on-premises workloads to Cloud (laaS, PaaS and SaaS).
• Experience working in Financial Services or Other regulated market sector.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

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Now the legal bit

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