Pearson VUE

Architect

• 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.

Application Architect

Solutions Engineer

• Develop robust, end-to-end solution architectures that balance customer needs with Pearson VUE’s strategic technology direction.
• Lead solution shaping for RFP/RFI responses, pre-sales engagements, and complex customer implementations.
• Architect solutions that advance key modernization objectives—cloud-native deployments, microservices, event-driven patterns, resiliency, horizontal scalability, and platform consolidation.
• Evaluate and recommend technology patterns, integration frameworks, and architectural approaches that optimize both customer outcomes and long-term product evolution.
• Produce architectural deliverables including high level solution approach/designs, conceptual models, sequence diagrams, data flows, standards, and reference architectures.
• Translate business and technical constraints into actionable design options and implementation guidance for project teams.
• Resolve day-to-day integration and build issues, ensuring technical consistency and stability across assigned products or services.
• Produce high-quality design artifacts, including models, documentation, and reference architectures, with minimal revision cycles.
• Consult on technical feasibility for major features or updates, raising significant challenges to senior experts as needed.
• Mentor platform/product architects and engineers, sharing best practices and supporting their technical growth.
• Ensure conformance to established framework guidelines and documentation standards.
• Collaborate across teams to enable smooth integration and knowledge transfer, driving project efficiency.
• Adapt quickly to shifting requirements, maintaining solution stability and project momentum.
• Translate solution architectures into actionable implementation guidance for engineering and delivery teams.
• Provide architectural oversight during development, integration, and rollout to ensure adherence to design principles and best practices.
• Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Support ongoing enhancement of existing systems by aligning technical decisions with target-state architecture and modernization goals.
• Partner with product managers, product architects, platform architects, engineering teams, and customer-facing groups to align on solution direction and roadmap priorities.
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to architecture and engineering teams, promoting consistent architectural principles and best practices.
• Lead technical discussions with customers, stakeholders, and executive audiences to articulate architectural strategies and decision rationale.
• Influence product roadmaps by incorporating customer needs, industry trends, competitive insights, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in customer engagements and strategic initiatives, strengthening Pearson VUE’s technical credibility and competitive positioning.

Solution Architect

Database Administrator

• Support all Oracle Database services for all applications supporting our ERP environment, including Database, Infrastructure, and Middleware.
• Deploy development code.
• Assist developers and testers with troubleshooting and recommendations, including but not limited to performance and functionality.
• Respond to outages of the environment and correct issues.
• Routinely patch Oracle Database, Infrastructure, Middleware, and Applications.
• Provide required Application Administration of Non-Production Environments to Support Development and Testing.
• Manage, Monitor, and Maintain Middleware for Production Environments to ensure maximum availability and performance.
• Provide Application Design and Architecture expertise to support ERP and associated applications.

Senior Database Administrator

Marketing

• Lead the creation and execution of thought leadership initiatives aligned with Pearson’s strategic priorities.
• Translate complex topics into accessible, compelling content for both internal and external audiences.
• Manage and curate content for internal forums, newsletters, and external campaigns, ensuring consistency and alignment with business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including research, marketing, and executive leadership, to drive innovation and strategic alignment.
• Foster stakeholder engagement and support change management efforts through effective communication strategies.
• Measure and report on the impact of thought leadership activities, including brand visibility, internal engagement, and business growth.

Thought Leadership Marketing

Events

• Lead and direct event campaign planning across Pearson’s businesses, with a focus on co‑marketing activations with enterprise partners (e.g., hyperscalers) that advance our growth agenda.
• Establish governance, processes, and portfolio discipline for a tiered event program, orchestrating cross‑functional execution and ensuring data‑driven ROI, customer outcomes, and brand elevation as ‘One Pearson.’
• Drive workback plans (scope, timeline, budget, risk, communications plan); orchestrate cross‑functional squads and agencies from strategy through onsite delivery and post‑event follow‑up.
• Oversee venue/sponsorship contracting, production, run‑of‑show, and audience acquisition; ensure consistent CX and brand standards for ‘One Pearson.’
• Build and mentor a PMO discipline for events—codify templates, toolkits, training (‘train‑the‑trainer’).
• Partner closely with Market Presence leadership to set the annual slate and multi‑channel activation approach for top‑tier moments (e.g., WEF, ASU+GSV, FII), ensuring ‘One Pearson’ presence and measurable business outcomes.

Application Architect

Solution Architect

Senior Database Administrator

Thought Leadership Marketing

Events, Sponsorship and Associations