Position Summary:

As the Product Architect you will provide leadership and architectural direction within the CTRS - Channel Technology, Results, and Security product area. This role is foundational to or team and the work we deliver. The Product Architect takes ownership for all technical matters in their area. You will also be responsible for creating and implementing a long-term vision, orchestrating high-quality software implementations, and maintaining, guiding, and improving architectural integrity and evolution for our area. Additional expectations include the ability to foster high team morale, mentor and coach team members, and ensure best practices and architectural guidelines are followed in your product area.

Team:

This position is part of a very strong high performance team, which supports our Test Center support portal, results processing, client data and notifications systems which are essential components of Pearson Vue’s core business.

The Product Architect will:

In this role you will work closely with your Agile Team as well as Product Managers by providing architecture solutions and leadership at the product level. You will do this through leading the development of software that achieves the goals of the architecture and software standards within your product area.

In this role, there are four major functional areas with an expected breakdown of duties as follows:

Architecture & Development

● Create, document, implement, and oversee the long-term vision, architecture and initiatives in the assigned area

● Work with product owners to establish product direction and technology solutions

● Estimate software development requirements and effort, propose alternatives, and prioritize development tasks for a given area.

● Ensure higher level requirements from project stakeholders are satisfied, complete and testable

● Review code and documents for their area to ensure designs and coding are holistic

● Work closely with the Engineering Leads to assess and oversee the technical delivery of high quality projects and products

● Serve as the point person who is accountable for their assigned area and will capture, summarize, and escalate issues as necessary for resolution and awareness

● Provide technical leadership DevOps and Release Management activities

Engineering Leadership & Mentoring

● Strategic and tactical responsibility on a daily basis for developing and enhancing the technical architecture and projects of assigned areas and ensuring user needs are met

● Coordinate and unify the work of architects and team members through the software implementation process

● Provide technical roadmaps and product strategy direction for our existing application portfolio upgrades and our new technology and solutions

● Provide technical mentoring and staff development leadership to our team

● Proactively design training opportunities within the group that align with group goals

● Proactively foster collaboration among technical teams where systems integration is required

Applications Performance Management

● Oversee and Monitor our day to day production environments to maintain high performance and maximum uptime

● Design, maintain and assess items in their assigned area factoring in performance, maintainability/complexity, market trends, innovation, system robustness, scalability, and longer term quality initiatives

● Manage overall system performance and application health by developing system metrics, performance dashboards and system alerts

● Provide leadership and technical direction for performance testing and system tuning activities

Process & Quality Improvement(and other responsibilities)

● Participate in and initiate group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence

● Participate in and monitor effectiveness of requirement, design, code, unit test and QA test case reviews and inspections

● Assess and oversee the technical delivery of projects to ensure best practices are followed

● Report any potential opportunities regarding assigned domain, other domains, or client opportunities

Required Experience:

● Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline

● 10+ years relevant software development experience creating business applications with relational database systems (Experience with Java technologies)

● 3+ years experience in software architecture and design

● 3+ years technical leadership experience

● 3+ years programmatic interaction with relational database systems

● IT Architecture experience in large project development, development lifecycles, development methodologies, project scoping, process improvement, and variety of technologies and tools

● Strong communication skills and experience building architecture diagrams and technology whitepapers

● Experience building technology RFPs and recommending solutions

● Experience with large scale messaging and data driven backend systems

Desired Experience:

● Ability to understand philosophy of architecture

● Ability to lead and/or coordinate multiple teams or projects concurrently

● Ever expanding knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools

● Enterprise knowledge of business and platforms across systems and in our core technology service model

● Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications

● Ability to effectively manage, measure, and continuously improve working performance and quality of teams and individuals

● Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations

● Must have strong time management and project management skills – including the ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timeline

● Must develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts and work well within a team

● Mentoring and training skills

Experience with the following tools (Required):

● Java SE AND EE (6 years)

● Spring and Spring Boot framework (3 years)

● Web Services (4 years)

● REST services (4years)

● SQL (6 years)

● JBOSS OR Tomcat (3 years)

● AngularJS and other Javascript frameworks (2 years)

● Agile development (4 years)

● Architecture and OOAD Design patterns

Experience with some or all of the following tools (Preferred):

● JPA

● RabbitMQ or JMS

● Hibernate

● SOA

● Swing

● Gauge and Selenium

● Splunk

● New Relic

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado, California, Washington State, and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The minimum full-time salary range is between $125,000 - $145,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

What to expect from Pearson

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 13652