Remote Principal Enterprise Architect - Cloud-Native

Pearson; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead transformative architectural initiatives for our core platforms. You will guide multi-year modernization, design elastic, API-first, event-driven architectures, and collaborate across engineering, product, security, and governance teams.

You will spend time on hands-on design, code, and incident reviews while balancing enterprise risk, regulatory standards, and performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and systems architecture experience, with enterprise-scale roles.
• Experience modernizing legacy, on-premise, or monolithic systems to cloud-native.
• Strong cloud provider expertise and scalable patterns.
• Hands-on with event-driven and asynchronous integrations and saga patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define the north-star technical architecture for core platforms and align with business strategy.
• Lead migration and refactoring to decoupled, cloud-native architectures.
• Own multi-year modernization roadmaps and prioritize platform investments.
• Present architecture strategy to cross-functional steering committees and project boards.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise modernization

Event-driven design

API-first design

Kubernetes

Security & compliance

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead transformative architectural initiatives for our core platforms. You will guide multi-year modernization, design elastic, API-first, event-driven architectures, and collaborate across engineering, product, security, and governance teams.

You will spend time on hands-on design, code, and incident reviews while balancing enterprise risk, regulatory standards, and performance.