Lead Specialist, Solution Architect Pearson

Earnmodes; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Solution Architect for forward deployment and enterprise integrations in India. You will design, build, and troubleshoot connections between Pearson platforms and client systems such as HRIS and LMS, embedding with strategic accounts and hyperscalers.

You will lead technical scoping, design scalable integration architectures, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring security standards and reusable patterns across deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience in forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or integrations engineering in enterprise SaaS/EdTech.
• Strong API management and infrastructure-as-code experience for enterprise integrations.
• Solid grounding in information security practices and working with enterprise accounts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy integration solutions between Pearsons enterprise products and client systems (HRIS, LMS, identity).
• Scope integration requirements with strategic and hyperscaler accounts to accelerate value.
• Collaborate with Integrations Engineering Lead and platform teams to create reusable integration patterns.
• Act as technical escalation point for enterprise integration incidents in production.
• Translate client needs into roadmap input and prioritised technical requirements with Product Management.
• Maintain technical consistency and conformance to security standards across integrations.
• Provide hands-on guidance and mentorship to engineers in the integrations squad.
• Document architectures, data mappings, and runbooks to support scale.

Skills

Forward deployment

Solutions engineering

Integrations engineering

API-driven integration

Cybersecurity awareness

Enterprise SaaS

Hyperscaler collaboration

Tools

REST APIs

Webhooks

Event-driven architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Background details:

Job Title: Lead Specialist, Solution Architect (Forward Deployment Engineer, Enterprise Integrations)

Location: India

Employment Type: Regular Employee, Full-Time

About the Role

Pearson's Enterprise Integrations function is looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and enterprise delivery. In this role, you'll embed directly with strategic and hyperscaler accounts to design, build, and troubleshoot the technical connections between Pearson's enterprise offerings and client systems: HRIS, LMS, identity, and data platforms.

You'll translate client-specific technical requirements into working integrations at pace, closing the gap between what our platforms are designed to do and what a given enterprise account needs them to do today. You'll provide technical leadership on defined integration projects, turning client and partner constraints into secure, viable integration architectures, and support delivery teams through implementation.

We're looking for someone with strong API management and infrastructure-as-code experience, a solid grounding in information security practices, and the stakeholder skills to work directly with enterprise and hyperscaler clients on technical scoping and problem-solving.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and deploy integration solutions between Pearsons enterprise products / platforms and client systems including HRIS (SAP TIH, Workday), LMS, and identity providers
• Work directly with strategic and hyperscaler accounts to scope integration requirements, resolve technical blockers, and accelerate time to value
• Partner with the Integrations Engineering Lead and platform teams to ensure client-specific builds feed back into reusable, scalable integration patterns rather than one-off solutions
• Act as the technical escalation point for enterprise integration incidents, troubleshooting and resolving issues in production
• Collaborate with our Integrations Product Management to translate client and partner integration needs into roadmap input and prioritised technical requirements
• Maintain technical consistency across assigned client integrations and ensure conformance to established integration architecture and security standards
• Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers within the integrations squad
• Document integration architectures, data mappings, and technical runbooks to support scale and knowledge transfer
• Support onboarding of new enterprise and hyperscaler integration partners as the platform scales

What You'll Bring

• Significant experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or integrations engineering role, ideally in enterprise SaaS or EdTech
• Confidence leveraging AI and adjacent technologies as they apply to integration design and solutioning
• Demonstrated experience building and supporting production integrations with enterprise identity, HRIS, or LMS systems (SAP, Workday, or equivalent)
• Experience working directly with enterprise or strategic accounts on technical scoping and delivery
• A track record of turning ambiguous, client-specific requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Working knowledge of API-driven and event-driven integration architecture: REST APIs, webhooks, event bus patterns
• Comfort operating with ambiguity in a function that is still being stood up
• Strong grounding in cybersecurity and information security practices as applied to client integrations

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Job: Architecture

Job Family: TECHNOLOGY