Senior Solution Architect - Cloud-Native & Secure

Pearson; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead/Senior Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind OnVUE, guiding multiple engineering teams through modernization for secure, scalable assessment delivery. The role spans discovery to production adoption, ensuring security, resilience and API-first integration across cloud-native platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions across squads and maintain alignment with standards while supporting a distributed, high-impact testing platform

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in software engineering or solution architecture.
• Strong Java enterprise architecture experience, including Spring and Spring Boot.
• Experience across front-end and back-end technologies, including Angular.
• Cloud platform experience, preferably Azure; strong AWS experience is also relevant.
• Kubernetes, containers, orchestration and cloud-native delivery experience.
• Experience designing and scaling reliable, distributed applications and maintaining operational health.
• Strong third-party integration, API and service-integration experience.
• Evidence of leading technical decisions across multiple teams without relying on formal authority.
• Strong communication, facilitation, documentation and mentoring skills.
• Experience with LLMs, machine learning, video/audio/image processing or desktop products is helpful but not essential.

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 enterprise

Spring & Spring Boot

Angular

Azure Cloud

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

APIs & integrations

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead/Senior Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind OnVUE, guiding multiple engineering teams through modernization for secure, scalable assessment delivery. The role spans discovery to production adoption, ensuring security, resilience and API-first integration across cloud-native platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions across squads and maintain alignment with standards while supporting a distributed, high-impact testing platform