Principal, Solutions Architect - eCommerce

Company: Pearson Online & Blended Learning K-12
Location: Baton Rouge
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

PMC (Pearson's Marketing Cloud) is one of Pearson's global technology platforms that processes more than 90% of Pearson global eCommerce revenue and serves over 75% of all Pearson web traffic, with over 24million page views per month.We need a Senior Solution Architect - eCommerce who brings technical gravitas, thought leadership and a passion for technology! Be part of developing and implementing initiatives that improve innovation in a constantly evolving eCommerce and web content space.We are the world's learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.We are looking for someone who can bring technical gravitas, thought leadership and a passion for technology. This is a unique opportunity for a senior technologist to help us build something that will directly enhance the lives of millions, by supporting the provision of education on a global scale. The role will be reporting to the Engineering Director. Join a high performing team within a specialized engineering department which focuses on delivery and digital transformation!Key Responsibilities--- Provide architectural strategy and leadership to developing and implementing initiatives that improve innovation in a constantly evolving ecommerce & web content space.--- Champion and define architecture for eCommerce & CMS in a Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless architecture.--- Collaborate with senior leaders in business and technology to define MVP scope for various initiatives and design solutions that align with enterprise technology strategy.--- Lead the solution team, ensuring that roadmap items are assessed, and high-level architecture deliverables produced in time for handover to the engineering teams.--- Evaluate emerging technology for use across multiple domains, which include RFPs, vendor evaluations and creation of Architecture Design Proposals.--- Ensure that global solutions adhere to non-functional and compliance requirements at the local markets.--- Collaborate with Product Owners and other core platforms to drive product vision, manage scope and expectations.--- 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 the 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--- Architect Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of enterprise technologies that define web content and eCommerce strategy.Skills & Abilities--- Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.--- 6+ years of experience in software development, including a minimum of 3 years of experience in architecting solutions of customer facing web applications.--- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to facilitate interactive sessions with business and technology teams.--- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, relational databases, and complex integration landscapes.--- Familiarity with API-first Headless architecture implementation in eCommerce or Web Content space will be desirable.--- Familiar with AWS or equivalent cloud platform, including auto-scaling and global deployments of application architecture.--- Prior work experience in eCommerce or Web content management tools like SAP Commerce Cloud / Hybris, Oracle, Magento or AEM would be an added---advantage.------ Experience coaching and mentoring technology talent.As required by the---Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Pearson provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is $130K - $190K and information on benefits offered is here.

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