Solution Architect

Enterprise Architect – Solution Architecture 

Pearson VUE | Job Description 

Summary 

The Enterprise Architect – Solution Architecture role at Pearson VUE is a strategic, high-impact position responsible for defining technical solutions that drive new customer acquisition, support entry into emerging markets, and expand capabilities for existing customers. This role ensures that all solution designs meet customer expectations while aligning with Pearson VUE’s product and technology roadmap. The architect will provide enterprise-level guidance, governance, and technical leadership to drive scalable, secure, and future-ready solution architectures that evolve VUE products toward their target-state architecture, including modernization, cloud-native design, improved resiliency, and Agentic AI-enabled capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities: Architecture & Design 

• Develop robust, end-to-end solution architectures that balance customer needs with Pearson VUE’s strategic technology direction. 

• Lead solution shaping for RFP/RFI responses, pre-sales engagements, and complex customer implementations. 

• Architect solutions that advance key modernization objectives—cloud-native deployments, microservices, event-driven patterns, resiliency, horizontal scalability, and platform consolidation. 

• Evaluate and recommend technology patterns, integration frameworks, and architectural approaches that optimize both customer outcomes and long-term product evolution. 

• Produce architectural deliverables including high level solution approach/designs, conceptual models, sequence diagrams, data flows, standards, and reference architectures. 

• Translate business and technical constraints into actionable design options and implementation guidance for project teams. 

• Resolve day-to-day integration and build issues, ensuring technical consistency and stability across assigned products or services. 

• Produce high-quality design artifacts, including models, documentation, and reference architectures, wi