Platform Systems Lead: AI, Migrations & Content

Pearson; Austin (TX); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 170 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual incentive program

Benefits package

Résumé du poste

Pearson is seeking a senior platform engineer to lead hands-on work modernizing and delivering scalable content platform services. You will own designs, code on the critical path, and drive engineering decisions across multiple tracks, including migrations, media handling, search, and AI-powered workflows.

You will work across Pearson's platform, mentor engineers, and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with business priorities, risk management, and long‑term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software across multi-service systems.
• Led re-platforming or legacy migration of a production system with active users and data.
• Led design and delivery of technically complex, user-facing systems.
• Upgraded or migrated production systems off an end-of-life runtime or framework.
• Deep full-stack experience with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, MongoDB, and event-driven services (SQS, SNS, Kafka).
• Experience on AWS with observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Responsabilités

• Own the technical plan and delivery for multiple technology tracks from design through launch.
• Migrate large volumes of content and data with data integrity guarantees.
• Build shared platform capabilities exposed via clean APIs.
• Provide costed views of technical debt and priorities.
• Serve as technical point of contact for escalations with business impact.
• Ensure security and stability with upgrades, testing, and disaster recovery planning.
• Set standards across teams for design, tooling, reliability, observability, and AI workflows.

Connaissances

Staff leadership

Systems design

Full-stack depth

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Outils

AWS (ECS Fargate/Lambda/S3/API Gateway)

OpenSearch

Solr

Redis

Terraform

Description du poste

Pearson is seeking a senior platform engineer to lead hands-on work modernizing and delivering scalable content platform services. You will own designs, code on the critical path, and drive engineering decisions across multiple tracks, including migrations, media handling, search, and AI-powered workflows.

You will work across Pearson's platform, mentor engineers, and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with business priorities, risk management, and long‑term maintainability.