Software Architect

Role: Software Architect – ExamDeveloper Product 

Company: Pearson

Division: Pearson VUE

United States - Remote (Central USA hours)

 

About Pearson VUE 

At Pearson VUE (www.pearsonVUE.com), we believe learning takes us from potential to progress. That is why we deliver high-stakes exams that help industries and individuals make an impact on their professions, communities, and the lives of others. Our customers’ high-stakes certification, licensure, admissions, and other credentialing exams help people advance in technology, government, and professional careers, as well as attain educational growth. Pearson VUE offers proctored exams through the world's largest network of test centers in addition to testing in online and un proctored environments. Our Products and Technology team powers our business to deliver over 19 million exams annually at 20,000 test centers in 188 countries.  

Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com. As a global business, we understand the critical link between technology and business strategy and integrate them closely to help people succeed in their lifetime of learning. From leadership to stable teams, we foster collaboration and teamwork towards building a collective “we” culture in everything.  

  

Summary:   

As a Software Architect for the ExamDeveloper product, you will own the overall system design and architecture for Pearson VUE’s SaaS tool for creating exams.  In this individual contributor role you’ll be the visionary for future architecture state of ExamDeveloper and ensure that current work of the teams is aligned your architecture direction.  You’ll spend most of your time on planning and design activities in close collaboration with other technical and non-technical people. 

 

The Product:  

ExamDeveloper is a web-based exam development platform that allows our customers to write, review and manage questions on their exams.  ExamDeveloper is the leading web-based tool for creating tests to certify test-takers in the professional skills they require.   Customers rely on ExamDeveloper to support their entire workflow around question writing, collaborative review, scoring, and test management.  It is currently undergoing a significant modernization effort and there are constant opportunities to add value to this core Pearson VUE product. 

ExamDeveloper’s primary tech stack is .NET and C# on the backend and Angular on the frontend hosted in Microsoft Azure.  You’ll work with containerized services and Microsoft SQL Server.  Some of the work will involve .NET Framework 4.x and ASP.NET Web Forms as we are in progress with modernization. 

 

Teams: 

The majority of the development and QA engineers are consultants located in India.  Because of this, clear communication (especially written) is important.  There is a small team of USA-based employee developers.  Support and leadership roles like Project Managers and Business Analysts are employees based in the USA. 

 

Work Location: 

In this role it is possible to work remotely anywhere in the USA, but many people you’d regularly work with are based in the Central USA timezone in the Minneapolis, MN area.  It is required to work during most of Central USA’s normal business hours. 

 

Duties 

• Create technical plans that provide for future development and operations of the ExamDeveloper product.  Proactively work to anticipate and prepare for upcoming needs. 

• Lead the solutioning process to define and estimate the work required for upcoming features.  Act to advance our business objectives from ambiguous high-level goals into specific achievable plans. 

• Review technical designs created by others for compatibility with current and future architecture direction. 

• Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand customer needs and incorporate their vision into your technical direction. 

• Act as a trusted driving force for achieving business goals. 

• Oversee the operational costs of ExamDeveloper to ensure that our resource usage (ex: Azure cloud costs) are optimal. 

• Set technical standards for the engineering teams together with the participation and eng