Pega Certified Lead Business Architect - Hybrid (2 days/week) - Long Term Contract - Trenton, NJ - B1301B

Our direct client is looking for a Pega Certified Lead Business Architect for a Hybrid (2 days/week) Long Term Contract in Trenton, NJ.
Note: 
- Local candidate REQUIRED that can work a Hybrid Schedule; 3 Days Remote, 2 Days On-Site
- Must have a PEGA Business Architect certification and 4 years Post Certification experience.
J0B DESCRIPTION:
- The LBA will lead multiple teams consisting of developers, subject experts and stakeholders to convert the business requirements, process flow, use cases and the supporting integration documents into a fully functional application that meets user needs.
Summary:
- Pega Lead Business Architect will act as a liaison between the business users, stakeholders and technologists. This individual will be responsible to work with Lead System Architect and Leadership team jointly charting business and technical strategies.
- This position will have the opportunity to exercise a variety of skill sets while participating in software development and systems integration projects for a wide variety of users and stakeholders.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in requirements gathering, tracking, and analysis with an ability to communicate the information to both technical and non-technical professionals.
- The primary function of this position will involve the evaluation of user needs and development and implementation of technological solutions to solve those needs
Experience:
- Working with users/stakeholders to understand and capture software solution needs
Role Responsibilities:
- Acts as the liaison between Business and Technology teams and have ability to translate between technical and non-technical team members.
- Works closely with Business Product Owners and Stakeholders, ATCSU and Lead Business Analysts to gather user stories and translate into business requirements.
- A wide degree of creativity and initiative is expected.
- Understands the business vision and translates to Technology impacts/solutions.
- Work with Technology teams to come up with solutions that meet Business needs.
- Proactively identifies and mitigates risk to projects.
- Performs multiple roles as needed during the course of the project.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills.
- Solid experience with business process modeling and change management
- Solid experience with documenting requirements, functional design and leading test execution.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and customers to understand business problems to be solved
- Capture functional software requirements and translate into user stories
- Coordinate with Product Manager and stakeholders to facilitate backlog reviews
- Participate in Agile software development sprints and sprint planning activities
- Lead agile teams and processes as necessary
- Define solution acceptance criteria and assist in software testing
- Publish software release notes and maintain other product documentation
- Develop and maintain solution training material
- Mentor Business Analysts and other Software Development team members
- Integrate best practices into current working procedures
- Lead client workshops around software products and processes
- Participate in and provide support to customer success teams
- Create wireframe designs for functional requirements
- Conduct process and product training as needed
- Other duties as assigned
- IT technical background a plus
SKILL MATRIX:
- RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 9 or more yrs. - Required 
- Experience as a Business Analysis or related area - Required 
- Experience in Use Case Development - Required 
- Experience as a PEGA Business Architect with 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE POST CERTIFICATION - Required 
- Experience Managing software functional requirements throughout the SDLC - Required 
- Agile software development experience - Required 
- Documentation of requirements, test cases, and training material, functional design and leading test execution - Required 
- Configuration and deployment of software solutions at the enterprise level - Required 
- Broad experience in an organization that develops and delivers software to customers - Strong Plus to have 
- Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills - Required
- 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study - Required 
Question 1: One-hour unpaid lunch. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 2: Finger printing, full State & Federal Background Check to be completed by the State. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 3: Please document date of Pega BA certification. Attach Pega Certificate with resume.
Question 4: Please note email address used for PEGA certification.
Question 5: Where is the candidate geographically located (City and State)?
Question 6: This requirement requires candidate to work onsite 2 days / week as established by client. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 7: This position requires in person interview. Are you fine with this?
Location: Hybrid (2 days/week), Trenton, NJ
Type: Long Term Contract