Senior Cloud-Native Enterprise Architect (Remote)

Pearson; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to drive transformative architectural initiatives across core platforms. You will balance strategic planning with hands-on design, guiding teams through complex integrations and modernization to improve performance, security, and interoperability.

You will lead architectural strategy, design governance, and cross-functional collaboration while delivering pragmatic, ship‑and‑learn solutions in a remote, enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and enterprise architecture experience.
• Proven track record modernizing legacy, on-premise, or monolithic systems into cloud-native architectures.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and patterns for resilient, cost-effective services.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and asynchronous integration (message brokers, event streams) and saga patterns.
• Strong API-first design discipline (REST, gRPC, GraphQL).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, background/autonomous processing, and AI/LLM orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Define the north-star architecture and modernization roadmaps for core platforms.
• Lead migration of legacy systems to decoupled, cloud-native designs.
• Present architecture strategy to cross-functional boards and guide prioritization.
• Partner with security, compliance, and governance teams to meet standards.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Event-driven architecture

API design

Leadership

Mentorship

Hands-on

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS EventBridge

Kubernetes

Job description

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to drive transformative architectural initiatives across core platforms. You will balance strategic planning with hands-on design, guiding teams through complex integrations and modernization to improve performance, security, and interoperability.

You will lead architectural strategy, design governance, and cross-functional collaboration while delivering pragmatic, ship‑and‑learn solutions in a remote, enterprise setting.