Principal System Architect – etobicoke

Position: Principal System Architect / Solution Architect / Senior LSA (PEGA)

Location: Remote within Canada. (Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and able to collaborate during North American business hours.)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Reports To: Delivery Lead / Practice Director, Canada

About EvonSys:

EvonSys is a specialist consulting and engineering firm that designs and delivers enterprise solutions on the Pega platform. Under our tagline “Evolution by Innovation,” we partner with some of North America’s largest financial institutions to modernize their core operations, customer engagement, and decisioning capabilities. As our Canadian practice expands, we are adding senior architectural leadership to drive quality, scalability, and client success across our growing portfolio

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Principal-level Pega architect to provide hands-on technical leadership across one or more strategic banking engagements. You will own the overall solution architecture, set technical standards, guide a team of system architects, and serve as the senior technical point of contact for client stakeholders. This role demands proven banking application delivery and current, hands-on experience designing and building Pega Constellation applications. It is a high-visibility position for an architect who combines deep Pega expertise with the judgment to balance affordability, fit, and long-term maintainability.

Key responsibilities:

• Solution architecture: Define and own end-to-end Pega solution architecture — case design, class structure, data models, integrations, and reusable enterprise assets — aligned with Pega guardrails and best practices.
• Technical leadership: Set technical direction across workstreams, review designs and code, and ensure delivery quality across the team.
• Mentorship: Coach and develop Senior System Architects and System Architects, raising the technical bar of the practice.
• Client engagement: Act as the trusted senior technical advisor to client stakeholders; translate business objectives into scalable, supportable Pega solutions.
• Performance & scalability: Lead performance tuning, scalability planning, and production-readiness reviews for enterprise-grade deployments.
• Integration design: Architect robust integrations with enterprise systems, services, and data sources across complex financial-services landscapes.
• Governance: Drive Direct Capture of Objectives (DCO) sessions, estimation, technical risk management, and adherence to delivery and security standards.
• Delivery support: Collaborate with project and delivery leadership on planning, staffing, and roadmap for expansion across accounts.

Required qualification:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and building applications on the Pega platform.
• Banking application experience: demonstrated delivery of Pega solutions for banking use cases — e.g. core banking, lending/credit, payments, account servicing, or onboarding/KYC — in a regulated financial-services environment.
• PEGA Constellation experience: current, hands-on experience architecting and building applications on the Pega Constellation architecture, including Constellation UI/DX API design and migration considerations from traditional UI.
• PEGA Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) — or Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) actively pursuing CLSA.
• Deep expertise with Pega Infinity, case management, data pages, declarative rules, and the situational layer cake
• Proven experience leading the architecture of large, enterprise-scale Pega implementations.
• Strong background in enterprise integration patterns (REST/SOAP services, connectors, queue processing, file/data flows).
• Solid grounding in application performance, scalability, and security on PEGA.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models and running DCO sessions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage senior client stakeholders.
• Legally authorized to work in Canada.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience delivering Pega solutions in banking, insurance, or other regulated financial-services environments.
• Familiarity with Pega Customer Service, Pega Customer Decision Hub, or Pega Smart Dispute / KYC frameworks.
• Exposure to cloud deployment (Pega Cloud, AWS, Azure) and CI/CD pipelines for PEGA.
• Prior consulting or systems-integrator experience with multi-client delivery.
• Bilingual (English/French) is an asset given the Canadian market.

What We Offer:

• Principal-level technical leadership on high-impact banking engagements with a top-tier financial institution.
• A deeply technical, Pega-first culture that invests in certifications and continuous learning.
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
• Remote-first flexibility within Canada.
• A clear path to grow into delivery and practice leadership as the Canadian business expands.