Pearson is seeking highly motivated individuals with a sound technical background to join our Technical Operations team. We take continuous learning to heart. We value positive energy, clear communication, and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background. We look forward to hearing from you.  

Duties and Responsibilities  

• Collaborate with senior leaders in business and technology to define MVP scope for various initiatives and design solutions that align with enterprise technology strategy. 

• Provide architectural strategy and leadership to developing and implementing initiatives that improve innovation in a constantly evolving direct to consumer strategy. 

• Develop solutions to problems via use of methodologies and software application tools, and work with Product Owners to drive product vision, manage scope and expectations. 

• Design reliable, scalable, and performant end-to-end architectures which can support sites in several geographies across the globe. 

• Have responsibility for the quality of the technical solution delivered by project teams. 

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring of technical leads and development teams 

• Have a strong focus on high quality throughout the entire process, working closely with the Quality Assurance stream 

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects for aspects related to integration with other systems 

• Monitoring Global Gateway and microservices proactively to identify potential issues before they happen 

• Understand the impact of system issues using a combination of system knowledge and technical skills 

• Advanced troubleshooting techniques will be required. Typically, this would involve recreating reported scenarios and determining a root cause for concerns and fixing the same. 

• Providing end-user assistance, where required, until the issue has been resolved. 

• Monitor the availability, performance and throughput of supported IT applications.  

• Ability to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner to non-technical stakeholders. 

• Learn new technologies and maintain industry knowledge. 

• Efficiently manage teams time and take accountability of delivery commitments and manage risks  

• Work on high-volume, low-latency Internet solutions based on a Microservice Architecture  

Qualifications 

• Management experience of at least 5 years leading moderate to large projects 

• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills  

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience  

• Proven working experience in Java development  

• Object-Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.  

• Excellent knowledge of NoSQL (MongoDB) & Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies  

• Experience in the SpringBoot Framework, AWS and Microservices.  

• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)  

• Strong solutions architecture experience with complex enterprise solutions. 

• Knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, including auto-scaling and global deployments of application architecture 

• Min 8 years industry experience. 

• Experience coaching and mentoring technology talent.