Solution Architect

Solution Architect – Pearson VUE

Summary
Responsible for defining technical solutions that drive new customer acquisition, support entry into emerging markets, and expand capabilities for existing customers. Ensures all solution designs meet customer expectations while aligning with Pearson VUE’s product and technology roadmap. Provides enterprise-level guidance, governance, and technical leadership to deliver scalable, secure, and future‑ready architectures that evolve VUE products toward their target‑state architecture, including modernization, cloud‑native design, improved resiliency, and Agentic AI‑enabled capabilities.

• Develop robust, end‑to‑end solution architectures that balance customer needs with Pearson VUE’s strategic technology direction.
• Lead solution shaping for RFP/RFI responses, pre‑sales engagements, and complex customer implementations.
• Architect solutions that advance key modernization objectives—cloud‑native deployments, microservices, event‑driven patterns, resiliency, horizontal scalability, and platform consolidation.
• Evaluate and recommend technology patterns, integration frameworks, and architectural approaches that optimize both customer outcomes and long‑term product evolution.
• Produce architectural deliverables including high‑level solution approaches/designs, conceptual models, sequence diagrams, data flows, standards, and reference architectures.
• Translate business and technical constraints into actionable design options and implementation guidance for project teams.
• Resolve day‑to‑day integration and build issues, ensuring technical consistency and stability across assigned products or services.
• Consult on technical feasibility for major features or updates, raising significant challenges to senior experts as needed.
• Mentor platform/product architects and engineers, sharing best practices and supporting their technical growth.
• Ensure conformance to established framework guidelines and documentation standards.
• Collaborate across teams to enable smooth integration and knowledge transfer, driving project efficiency.
• Adapt quickly to shifting requirements, maintaining solution stability and project momentum.

• Translate solution architectures into actionable implementation guidance for engineering and delivery teams.
• Provide architectural oversight during development, integration, and rollout to ensure adherence to design principles and best practices.
• Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies to ensure on‑time and high‑quality delivery.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, privacy, scalability, and availability requirements across global deployments.
• Support ongoing enhancement of existing systems by aligning technical decisions with target‑state architecture and modernization goals.

• Partner with product managers, product architects, platform architects, engineering teams, and customer‑facing groups to align on solution direction and roadmap priorities.
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to architecture and engineering teams, promoting consistent architectural principles and best practices.
• Lead technical discussions with customers, stakeholders, and executive audiences to articulate architectural strategies and decision rationale.
• Influence product roadmaps by incorporating customer needs, industry trends, competitive insights, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in customer engagements and strategic initiatives, strengthening Pearson VUE’s technical credibility and competitive positioning.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Significant experience designing and implementing software architectures in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in cloud platforms, API management, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong background in technical mentoring and cross‑team collaboration.
• Experience resolving integration and build issues in complex systems.

• Experience in high‑availability, high‑volume platforms such as scheduling, proctoring, content delivery, or secure assessment…