Advanced Specialist, Technology Solutions

Pearson; Jefferson City (MO); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Technology Solutions is seeking an Advanced Specialist to lead cross-system analysis for PPA initiatives and act as a senior business analyst. You will shape solution direction, resolve ambiguity, align stakeholders, mentor peers, and raise analysis standards across teams.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, Operations, Client Services, and leadership to translate business needs into scalable and reusable technology solutions, driving AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IS, CS, Tech, Data Analytics, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-8+ years of business analysis, systems analysis, or technology delivery experience.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in Agile, hybrid, or enterprise environments.
• Experience with systems integration, APIs, data flows, reporting, workflows, and modernization.
• IIBA certification or similar is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end analysis for complex initiatives across multiple Pearson systems and stakeholders.
• Use AI-assisted analysis for requirement synthesis, gap detection, alignment, and data insights.
• Facilitate discovery workshops, design alignment sessions, and cross-functional reviews.
• Translate business objectives into capabilities, data requirements, and backlog artifacts.
• Own requirements strategy, traceability, impact assessments, and risk identification.

Skills

Requirements leadership

Systems thinking

Ambiguity resolution

Executive communication

Data reporting requirements

Mentoring others

Agile/SDLC

AI fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

5-8+ years BA/BI/tech delivery

Job description

The Technology Solutions Advanced Specialist leads complex, cross-system analysis for Pearson Professional Assessment (PPA) product, platform, operational, integration, and data initiatives. This role serves as a senior business analyst and domain expert, helping shape solution direction, resolve ambiguity, align stakeholders, mentor peers, and improve analysis standards across teams.

The Advanced Specialist works across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, Operations, Client Services, and leadership stakeholders to ensure PPA business needs are translated into scalable, maintainable, reusable, and operationally sound technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end analysis for complex initiatives involving multiple Pearson systems, workflows, data domains, integrations, teams, or stakeholder groups.
• Use AI-assisted analysis for complex requirement synthesis, gap detection, stakeholder alignment, process comparison, dependency identification, and data insight generation.
• Facilitate discovery workshops, decision forums, design alignment sessions, and cross-functional requirement reviews.
• Translate strategic business objectives into product/system capabilities, process models, integration requirements, data requirements, operational impacts, and delivery-ready backlog artifacts.
• Own requirements strategy, traceability, dependency analysis, impact assessments, and risk identification for complex or ambiguous work.
• Drive alignment between Product, Engineering, Architecture, CX, Data, Security, QA, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Promote maintainable, reusable, and holistic solutions that reduce unnecessary customization, minimize technical debt, and support company standards.
• Define and improve templates, practices, examples, and quality expectations for requirements, user stories, process flows, data mapping, and stakeholder documentation.
• Develop reusable AI prompts, checklists, and templates that improve BSA productivity and consistency.
• Provide advanced data analysis and insight generation to support business decisions, prioritization, operational improvements, and reporting requirements.
• Mentor peers through artifact review, facilitation support, domain coaching, and feedback.
• Support release and operational readiness by ensuring requirements decisions, dependencies, signoffs, documentation, and handoffs are complete; testing execution remains owned by QA/business partners.
• Identify AI-enabled process improvement and automation opportunities across Pearson VUE workflows, documentation practices, routing, analysis, and reporting.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Advanced requirements leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder influence.
• Strong systems thinking across business processes, applications, data, integrations, security, operations, and support models.
• Ability to resolve ambiguity, synthesize complex information, and recommend practical options.
• Strong written communication, executive-ready summarization, and decision documentation.
• Advanced data analysis and ability to define actionable reporting, metrics, and dashboard requirements.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and raise the quality of analysis across teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, product delivery, backlog management, and release readiness.
• Ability to balance customer needs, operational constraints, scalability, maintainability, risk, and delivery feasibility.
• AI fluency and ability to identify practical, governed AI use cases for work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Technology, Data Analytics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-8+ years of business analysis, business systems analysis, systems/product analysis, data analysis, or technology delivery experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in Agile, hybrid, or enterprise delivery environments.
• Experience with systems integration, APIs, data flows, reporting, operational workflows, and platform/process modernization.
• IIBA certification, Agile certification, Certification/licensure from a Pearson Professional Assessment partner, IT-related badges, and/or test assessments experience strongly preferred but not required.

Location & Working Pattern

United States. Remote within the United States. Any state restrictions or travel expectations will be shared during the recruitment process.

Compensation

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location. The full-time salary range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000.

This position is eligible to participate in Pearson’s sales incentive plan. Information on benefits can be found here. Applications will be accepted through November 9, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

Why Join Pearson?

This is an opportunity to develop engineering talent, strengthen delivery and quality practices, and help teams adopt emerging AI-assisted ways of working across technology that supports assessment experiences at scale.

Who we are:

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