AI-First Platform Engineering Leader

Pearson; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineering Team Manager to lead four core groups (Prizm, Semantics, Transformation, Delivery Services) within PSG-CP. This leader will drive AI-first practices, shape how content workflows scale globally, and partner with Product and Architecture to align platform direction with business goals.

The role emphasizes building a scalable, high-performing engineering culture, mentoring engineers, and delivering production-ready solutions that meet enterprise standards

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a technical customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Set a high bar for technical talent, customer instincts, and AI-first engineering judgment.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in career growth of each team member.
• Staff and oversee engagements with lines of business across your team's portfolio, balancing stakeholder needs, platform health, team development, and business priorities.
• Own delivery across the Prizm, Semantics, Transformation, and Delivery Services roadmaps, keeping the core platform reliable and moving.
• Work with line-of-business leaders to qualify engagements, scope work, and set expectations before your team commits.
• Review architectures and code to ship high-quality, production-ready solutions that meet enterprise expectations for reliability, observability, security, and cost.
• Stay hands-on enough to lead technical discovery sessions and debug production issues alongside your team when needed.
• Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, integration templates, and knowledge captures to propagate field learnings.
• Define team OKRs tied to business outcomes and platform adoption, creating cadences that keep teams aligned and improving.
• Partner with Product and Architecture to translate field insights into platform improvements and serve as the voice of the internal customer in planning.
• Represent the platform with senior stakeholders across lines of business at the highest level.

Skills

Software engineering

Solutions architecture

People management

AI/LLM experience

Stakeholder communication

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineering Team Manager to lead four core groups (Prizm, Semantics, Transformation, Delivery Services) within PSG-CP. This leader will drive AI-first practices, shape how content workflows scale globally, and partner with Product and Architecture to align platform direction with business goals.

The role emphasizes building a scalable, high-performing engineering culture, mentoring engineers, and delivering production-ready solutions that meet enterprise standards