Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an Architect to work closely with Product Management in aligning the architecture and technology with product roadmap on one hand and with engineering in manifesting the architecture through implementation, on the other.

In this role, you are directly responsible for the overall architecture, architecture best practices and compliance, working closely with architects of multiple business divisions of Pearson, especially HigherEd architecture organization. You will be building internet scale architecture to handle millions of users at any given point of time.

You will be influential, directional, collaborative and advisory to engineering, product and business.

Responsibilities

• You will build the architecture blueprints for the product that you would own.

• Your focus would be building internet scale architecture so that the products and platform can handle millions of users at any given point of time. This also indicates that you will be responsible for security and high performance and low latency transactions of the system.

• You will consider the security, performance, scalability and optimization as the driving factors while building the architecture.

• You will lead and facilitates architectural reviews and technology roadmap sessions with the product and technology staff.

• You will drive architecture frameworks, technology roadmaps from a strategic technology perspective.

• You will be closely working with engineering teams and technical specialists in helping them manifesting the solutions.

• You will collaborate with product management and product architects across the lines of business in contributing to the platform architecture. Translates complex business and non-functional requirements into strong architecture.

• You will be presenting and discussing on the platform and product architecture in a forum of architects, that will help improving the architecture further.

• You will be closely working with the architectural best practices on capabilities such as UX, Security, API, etc.

• You will identify and mentor the next level architects and junior technical people to tune them to grow as strong architects.

• You will also be responsible for leading and managing next level architects and support the growth of architecture organization

• You will be contributing to the architecture organization and to Pearson Lanka organization on the technology and architecture growth aspects.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with years experience varying from 8 years and above in software engineering, design and architecture experience.

• Experience on Java Technologies, NoSQL Datastores, Open Source technologies and Cloud computing.

• Knowledge of architectural frameworks, architecture patterns  and best practices. Experience in Agile practices, SAFe.

• Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and technical innovation.

• Excellent communication abilities in English.

• Comfortable talking about technical aspects with product and business aspects with technical people. Able to express complex concepts in plain language.

How to Apply

Job Categories: IT-Software/DB/QA/Web/Graphics/GIS. Job Types: Full-Time.

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