Application Architect
Pearson VUE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $125,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudKubernetesMicroservicesVue.js
About the role
- Define and maintain the target-state application architecture for Pearson VUE platforms and products, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy.
- Design, document, and evolve enterprise-wide reference architectures, technology patterns, and best practices.
- Lead architectural modernization initiatives, including cloud-native transformation, microservices redesign, event-driven architecture, and platform simplification.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that enhance scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Establish architectural standards, guidelines, and decision frameworks to ensure consistency across product and platform teams.
- Drive the enterprise Tech Radar process, identifying, evaluating, and promoting technologies for organization-wide adoption.
- Mentor other architects and engineers, sharing best practices and supporting their technical growth.
- Ensure conformance to established framework guidelines and documentation standards.
- Guide engineering and product teams in the practical implementation of reference architectures and modernization patterns.
- Provide architectural oversight during solution design, development, integration, and deployment to ensure alignment with target-state direction.
- Ensure new systems, enhancements, and modernization efforts meet technical standards for scalability, resiliency, observability, and security.
- Partner with teams to identify legacy pain points and recommend modernization pathways, including re-platforming, re-architecting, or tech stack upgrades.
- Support implementation of roadmaps by defining architectural milestones, technical dependencies, and phased modernization plans.
- Collaborate with platform architects, product architects, engineering leads, and other stakeholders to align on architectural direction and technology strategy.
- Provide thought leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting architectural rigor, technical excellence, and modern development practices.
- Influence product and platform roadmaps by introducing new technologies, architectural improvements, and modernization strategies.
- Represent Enterprise Architecture in cross-functional forums, architectural reviews, and strategic technology discussions.
- Lead architectural governance processes to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and facilitate informed technology decisions across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Extensive experience designing and implementing software architectures in enterprise environments.
- Proven track record of delivering scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
- Strong background in code review, technical mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.
- Experience designing reference architectures for enterprise-wide adoption.
- Architecture certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, SAFe Architect).
- Experience in high-availability, high-volume enterprise systems such as scheduling, content delivery, or secure assessments.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, AgenticAI, and modern data platforms.
- Experience establishing technology standards, governance, and tech strategy at scale.
Benefits
- This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is __here__.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
application architecturecloud-native transformationmicroservices redesignevent-driven architecturescalabilitysecuritymaintainabilityinfrastructure automationcode reviewreference architectures
Soft skills
mentorshipcollaborationthought leadershiptechnical excellencearchitectural rigor
Certifications
TOGAFAWS ArchitectAzure ArchitectSAFe Architect