Urgent hybrid contract opportunity for a Senior Pega Systems Architect in Trenton, New Jersey. Candidates must currently be local to New Jersey and able to attend an in-person interview; remote and non-local applicants are not eligible. Pega Certified Senior System Architect certification is mandatory, along with at least five years of Pega experience after SSA certification and five years across the full software-development lifecycle and object-oriented development. Required capabilities include Pega application architecture and solution development; case and application design; data modeling; business rules and policies; Pega administration, security, rules and procedures; large-scale process-based applications; design, configuration, testing, debugging, implementation and production support; enterprise integrations; and Agile/Scrum. The candidate should work independently, translate complex business requirements into reusable Pega solutions and collaborate effectively with analysts, users, and technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience with WebSphere/WebLogic, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, Java, .NET, Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server is preferred.