Technical Architect

Description

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, helping people of all ages make progress in their lives through education. We deliver high-quality content, assessments, and digital services to learners, educators, and institutions globally.

Our Team is responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable, and resilient services. 

About the Role  

This role is focused on building and evolving the cloud-based integration capabilities supporting the Azure Technical Hub. You will take technical ownership of the architecture, design and implementation of integration solutions and supporting engineering capabilities, leading engineers and delivery partners through detailed design, development, testing, deployment, production readiness and ongoing evolution of the platform. 

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role combining architecture with implementation. You will be expected to contribute directly to complex development work, review production code, troubleshoot difficult integration and performance issues, make detailed technical decisions and provide day-to-day technical direction to engineers. The successful candidate will be accountable for evolving the Technical Hub architecture and translating it into a robust, scalable and production-ready implementation, driving the solution through to successful delivery. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Take technical ownership of the architecture, design, implementation and production readiness of Azure Technical Hub integration solutions and supporting engineering capabilities, leading engineers and delivery partners through to successful delivery. 
• Design and implement Azure-based integration solutions using API, event-driven and asynchronous messaging patterns, selecting appropriate integration approaches based on functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Define and govern integration patterns, API contracts and standards, event schemas, message contracts, CDC and event publishing patterns. 
• Act as the senior hands-on technical authority for the integration engineering team, making detailed implementation decisions, resolving complex technical issues, reviewing code and providing day-to-day technical leadership and mentoring to engineers. 
• Define and govern standards for retries, dead-letter handling, replay, idempotency, observability and operational resilience.