Remote Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Java & API Lead

Pearson; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Solution Architect to guide multiple engineering teams in modernising the OnVUE online proctoring platform. You will translate business needs into practical architecture, steer delivery from discovery through implementation, and resolve complex integration challenges across secure, scalable systems.

This role combines deep Java and cloud-native expertise with authority to influence without formal hierarchy, mentoring teams and setting architectural direction for

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture or a related technical discipline.
• Strong Java enterprise architecture experience, including Spring and Spring Boot.
• Working architecture experience across front-end and back-end technologies, including Angular.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture from discovery and design through implementation and production adoption.
• Translate business needs, constraints and technical requirements into secure, scalable and maintainable designs.
• Set technical direction across squads and maintain consistency across the wider OnVUE solution footprint.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation while preserving architectural intent.
• Evaluate trade-offs across scalability, resilience, security, maintainability, integration risk and business value.
• Resolve complex architecture, integration and build issues, escalating decisions outside the assigned scope.
• Establish repeatable technical patterns and ensure conformance with architecture standards.
• Mentor engineers and architects and communicate recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Angular

Cloud architecture

APIs

Leadership without authority

Communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Solution Architect to guide multiple engineering teams in modernising the OnVUE online proctoring platform. You will translate business needs into practical architecture, steer delivery from discovery through implementation, and resolve complex integration challenges across secure, scalable systems.

This role combines deep Java and cloud-native expertise with authority to influence without formal hierarchy, mentoring teams and setting architectural direction for