Principal, Enterprise Architect

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🕒 August 6

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 IT Support

👻 Ghost score 57%

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Pearson VUE

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Define the north-star technical architecture for Pearson Virtual Schools' core platforms • Lead migration and refactoring of legacy, monolithic, or on-premise systems into decoupled, cloud-native architectures • Own multi-year modernization roadmaps and sequence initiatives to reduce legacy dependencies • Present architectural strategy and trade-offs to steering committees and project boards • Design elastic, demand-driven systems, including scale-to-zero and queue-based scaling workloads • Architect event-driven integrations using message brokers, event streams, and saga patterns • Establish API-first design across REST, gRPC, and GraphQL contracts • Guide adoption of agentic and autonomous processing patterns, including background workers, self-healing units, and AI/LLM orchestration • Define, document, and champion architectural patterns and guardrails across engineering teams • Review designs, resolve complex integration problems, and contribute to implementation • Mentor senior engineers and architects on cloud patterns, distributed systems, and technical-debt sequencing • Advise engineering, product, and executive stakeholders on business impact, risk, and cost • Partner with cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance teams on security and regulatory standards • Evaluate vendor platforms and build-versus-buy decisions • Track and report architecture health, uptime, IT service levels, integration risk, and adoption of modern patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering and systems architecture experience • Significant tenure at fast-growing, internet-based startups • Proven experience modernizing legacy, on-premise, or monolithic enterprise systems into cloud-native architectures • Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP • Hands-on experience with event-driven and asynchronous integration, including message brokers, event streams, and saga patterns • Strong discipline in API-first design using REST, gRPC, and GraphQL • Experience with containerization and orchestration, including Kubernetes and serverless container environments, at production scale • Familiarity with agentic workflows, background/autonomous processing, and AI/LLM orchestration patterns • Exceptional communication skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent • EdTech, SaaS, or K-12 platform experience is a plus, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Inclusive work environment • Consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status

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