Engineering Lead, Data Foundations & AI Delivery

Pearson; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Foundations program to lead modernization of the trusted data platform supporting analytics, reporting, and future AI-enabled products. You will guide cross-functional teams across legacy .NET WebForms/MVC to modern React/TypeScript and AWS-based services, ensuring quality gates and release readiness for all student-facing surfaces.

You will own roadmap execution, capacity planning, and collaboration with Product, Security, Compliance, and

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing engineers who ship to production.
• Experience delivering model-backed or agentic capabilities to real users.
• Ability to review technical decisions and engage with AI-fluent engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments for your team and its operating rhythm.
• Hire against our AI fluency bar and manage pipeline when staffing is thin.
• Ensure guardrails, human-in-the-loop fallback, disclosure, and evaluation before model-backed behavior is released.

Skills

Learning to Learn

Information Security

Problem Solving

Technical Acumen

API Management

Cloud Computing

Data Security

DevOps

Ethical Responsibility

Resilience Planning

Software Design

AI Agents

Automated AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Pearson is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Foundations program to lead modernization of the trusted data platform supporting analytics, reporting, and future AI-enabled products. You will guide cross-functional teams across legacy .NET WebForms/MVC to modern React/TypeScript and AWS-based services, ensuring quality gates and release readiness for all student-facing surfaces.

You will own roadmap execution, capacity planning, and collaboration with Product, Security, Compliance, and