The Role of the System Architect

A successful Pega application requires collaboration between three parties to solve business problems.

1. Business stakeholders
2. Business architects
3. System architects 

 

Types of Systems Architects 

1. Lead System Architects

• Direct the technical effort on a project

• Work with business architects (BAs) to design an application architecture

• Design the architecture to reuse application assets as much as possible

• Meet quality goals, including application performance

2. Senior System Architects

• Supervise development of a particular process or user interface (UI) form

• Add technical details to specifications

• Translate application requirements into

• guardrail-compliant feature designs

• Identify opportunities to reuse

• assets within the application design

3. System Architects

• Configure and unit test individual application elements such as correspondence and automated decisions
• Help draft processes and user
  interfaces during DCO sessions