AI-Fluent Engineering Manager, Data Foundations Platform

Pearson; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking an Engineering Manager for Data Foundations to lead the delivery of a modernized data foundation platform and ensure continuity for current consumers. You will oversee roadmap execution, migration sequencing, and cross-team collaboration with Product, Security, and DevOps to align priorities and protect continuity during modernization.

You will manage AI-fluent engineering practices, implement guardrails and quality gates, and coach a distributed team across time zones while

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing engineers who ship to production, including hiring, performance, and development
• A working engineering background, enough to review a technical decision and to be credible with engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering
• Experience delivering a model-backed or agentic capability to real users, including how it was evaluated before release and monitored afterward
• Practiced at holding a quality gate under delivery pressure, and able to describe a time you held one and a time you should have
• Experience managing across a legacy and a target platform at the same time, where the team cannot stop shipping on either
• Comfortable managing a distributed team across time zones, with the written discipline that requires
• Experience in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments; K-12 and FERPA exposure an advantage
• Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Own the overall engineering delivery for Data Foundations, including roadmap execution, platform readiness, migration sequencing, cutover planning, dependency management, and coordination across source systems and partner teams
• Set expectations for data contracts, quality gates, lineage, observability, access controls, operational readiness, and support ownership
• Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Solution Architecture, Security, Compliance, DevOps and SRE teams to align priorities and protect continuity during modernization
• Lead the team’s architectural reviews and ensure release gates for AI-enabled capabilities
• Coach capability deliberately and run performance and development conversations on a rhythm
• Build succession within the team and foster cross-training to avoid single points of failure
• Deliver domain depth across data foundation, integration, migration oversight, reliability, observability, and test discipline

Skills

Learning to Learn

Information Security

Problem Solving

Technical Acumen

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Pearson is seeking an Engineering Manager for Data Foundations to lead the delivery of a modernized data foundation platform and ensure continuity for current consumers. You will oversee roadmap execution, migration sequencing, and cross-team collaboration with Product, Security, and DevOps to align priorities and protect continuity during modernization.

You will manage AI-fluent engineering practices, implement guardrails and quality gates, and coach a distributed team across time zones while