Senior Enterprise Architect, Cloud-Native Modernization

Pearson

Olympia (WA)

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to drive architecture strategy, modernization, and engineering leadership across core platforms. You will guide cloud-native designs, orchestrate large-scale integrations, and balance strategic planning with hands-on delivery in a regulated enterprise context.

You will mentor teams, define guardrails, and partner with cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance to meet enterprise standards while maintaining delivery velocity

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering and enterprise-scale architecture experience.
Experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native architectures.
Proven ability to lead architectural strategy with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Define north-star technical architecture for core platforms and modernization roadmaps.
Lead migration of legacy systems into decoupled, cloud-native architectures.
Present strategy to cross-functional boards and drive platform investment decisions.
Mentor senior engineers and architects on cloud patterns and trade-offs.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native patterns

Leadership & mentoring

API-first design

Distributed systems

Event-driven design

Hands-on coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS EventBridge

Kubernetes

Job description

You will mentor teams, define guardrails, and partner with cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance to meet enterprise standards while maintaining delivery velocity

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