Principal Enterprise Architect

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

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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 and cloud-native scaling patterns • 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, autonomous processing, background workers, self-healing units, and AI/LLM orchestration • Define 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 and distributed-systems trade-offs • 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-vs-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, message brokers, event streams, and saga patterns • Strong API-first design discipline across REST, gRPC, and GraphQL • Production-scale experience with containerization and orchestration, including Kubernetes and serverless container environments • Familiarity with agentic workflows, background/autonomous processing, and AI/LLM orchestration patterns • Exceptional communication skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; advanced degree a plus • EdTech, SaaS, or K-12 platform experience a plus, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Inclusive environment committed to diversity • Consideration for all qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics