Overview

Job Title: Pega CDH Senior Decisioning Architect - Pega Certified Decisioning Consultant (PCDC)

Location: Sheffield/Birmingham, UK (3Days/Week Onsite)

Duration: 6 months+

Rate: 600 GBP/Day Inside IR35

Role Summary:
The Senior Pega Decisioning Architect is a hands-on, strategic role responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the decisioning framework within the Pega platform, with a strong focus on the Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH). This individual will be a subject matter expert who can translate business goals into scalable and efficient decisioning strategies, while also performing the practical configuration and implementation of those solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Design & Architecture (Decisioning Vision)
   • Architecting Decision Strategies: Design and establish the architecture for complex decisioning strategies using Pega CDH, including Next-Best-Action (NBA) frameworks, Real Time containers, and adaptive models.
   • Business to Technical Translation: Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and data scientists to translate customer engagement goals and business requirements into effective and scalable decisioning frameworks.
   • Defining Policies & Rules: Define and implement engagement policies, arbitration rules, and predictive models to optimize customer interactions across various channels.
   • Data Integration: Ensure seamless integration with enterprise systems, including CRMs, data warehouses, marketing platforms, and third-party tools to support the decisioning engine.
2. Hands-on Configuration & Implementation (Technical Execution)
   • Decisioning Artifacts: Be responsible for the end-to-end build, unit testing, and deployment of Pega decisioning artifacts, such as strategies, propositions, treatments, actions, and contact policies.
   • Next-Best-Action Designer: Implement and configure rules within the Next-Best-Action Designer, including configuring arbitration, taxonomy, and strategies.
   • Model Management: Work hands-on with Pega's Adaptive Decision Manager (ADM) and Prediction Studio to create, monitor, and optimize adaptive and predictive models.
   • Data Flows & Sets: Develop and configure data flows, data sets, and data transform rules to support the decisioning and reporting requirements.
   • Troubleshooting & Performance: Actively participate in performance tuning, simulation testing, and validation of decisioning logic. Debug and troubleshoot the NBA framework and associated components.
3. Leadership & Collaboration
   • Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring adherence to Pega best practices and architecture standards.
   • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technical leads, and QA teams to ensure alignment and clear communication throughout the project life cycle.
   • Code Review & Governance: Perform code and design reviews to ensure the quality and maintainability of the Pega solution. Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and governance.
   • Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of requirements, design decisions, and business processes related to the decisioning framework.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Pega Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in Pega, with a strong specialization in Pega Decisioning.
• Core Decisioning Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with Pega CDH, Next-Best-Action Designer, Pega AI, and related concepts.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with Pega Platform versions 8.x and above. Proficiency in configuring strategies, propositions, treatments, and channels. Strong knowledge of Pega's data model, data flows, and integration capabilities (eg, REST, SOAP).
• Certifications (Highly Preferred): Pega Certified Decisioning Consultant (PCDC) is essential. Pega Certified Lead Decisioning Architect certification would be a significant advantage.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to work both independently and lead a team in an Agile environment.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in industries that heavily use Real Time personalization, such as financial services, telecommunications, or marketing, is highly desirable.