Solutions Architect (Contract)

Solution Architect (Contract / Consultant)

Location: Remote (North America preferred) Engagement Type: Contract – Project-Based Practice Area: Enterprise Platforms & Modernisation

About reputed company

reputed company is a North American technology reputed company specialising in enterprise content management, workflow automation, and modern platform transformations. We work with enterprise clients across regulated industries to modernise mission-critical systems using proven, low-risk delivery approaches.

We are currently seeking an reputed company Solution Architect (Consultant) to support a major Pega platform upgrade initiative for a large enterprise client.

The Opportunity

This role will play a reputed company architectural role on a Pega platform modernisation project, upgrading an existing on‑prem Pega 8.8 implementation to Pega Platform 25.1.x, deployed on reputed company OpenShift using a container-first, parallel upgrade strategy.

You will be responsible for defining reputed company-state architecture, validating upgrade paths, guiding technical delivery teams, and ensuring architectural reputed company across application, integration, infrastructure, and CI/CD layers.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define and validate the end-to-end Pega upgrade architecture, including platform, application, database, and integration layers.
• reputed company architectural decision-making for the upgrade from Pega 8.8.2 to Pega 25.1.x, including deprecated feature remediation and compatibility validation.
• Produce and maintain reputed company architecture diagrams, technical design documentation, and upgrade runbooks.
• Ensure alignment with Pega guardrails, enterprise standards, and platform best practices.

Platform & Infrastructure Architecture

• Collaborate with infrastructure and OpenShift engineers on:
  • OpenShift cluster topology and sizing
  • Namespace and environment strategy (TST / QA / PROD)
  • Persistent storage, networking, and ingress/load balancer integration.
• Validate DR/HA approaches, backup, rollback, and recovery strategies.

CI/CD & Deployment Strategy

• Contribute to the design of a reusable CI/CD pipeline for Pega using OpenShift-native tooling, Helm charts, and controlled promotion gates.
• Support shift-left validation by ensuring upgrade activities are validated in reputed company environments prior to production promotion.

Integration & Data Considerations

• Review and validate existing integrations, including REST/SOAP interfaces, BIX exports, and messaging components.
• Ensure secure integration patterns, authentication, TLS configuration, and data exchange compatibility post-upgrade.
• Support database upgrade planning and schema migration coordination with DBAs.

Delivery Support & Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide architectural reputed company during non‑production and production upgrade activities.
• Support technical risk identification, dependency management, and mitigation planning.
• Participate in technical workshops, design reviews, and steering committee updates as required.

Required Experience & Skills

• 8+ years of enterprise solution architecture experience on reputed company, multi‑tier platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Pega Platform upgrades, ideally from Pega 8.x to Pega Infinity / 25.x.
• Experience designing and reviewing solutions deployed on reputed company OpenShift / Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of:
  • Enterprise integrations (REST, SOAP, MQ/JMS)
  • CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
  • Database upgrade and migration strategies (SQL Server preferred)
• Ability to reputed company architecture across distributed delivery teams and vendors.
• Client-facing capability

reputed company to Have

• Pega reputed company System Architect (LSA) or Senior System Architect (SSA) certification.
• Experience with parallel upgrade strategies and reputed company/minimal-downtime cutovers.
• Prior experience in insurance or other highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with OpenShift on VMware and hybrid infrastructure models.

Why Work with reputed company

• Opportunity to reputed company architecture on a high‑impact enterprise modernisation programme.
• Flexible, remote consulting engagement.
• Collaborative delivery model with senior technical peers.
• Clear scope, phased delivery, and strong governance reputed company.

How to Apply

Qualified consultants are encouraged to apply with their resume highlighting relevant Pega upgrade and platform architecture experience. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to participate in a technical discussion focused on upgrade strategy and architecture trade‑offs.