# Lead Specialist, Technical Architect

Role: Lead Specialist, Technical Architect Location: Rotherham, London or Manchester, UK This role aligns with positions typically advertised in the external market as Lead Integration Architect, Principal Integration Engineer OR Technical Architect - Cloud Integration Job Summary Design, build, and evolve cloud-based integration capabilities for the TOpS project. Take technical ownership of architecture, design, and implementation of integration solutions, leading engineers and delivery partners through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing platform evolution. This hands-on role combines technical leadership with direct engineering contribution, ensuring robust, scalable, and production-ready solutions. Key Responsibilities Take technical ownership of architecture, design, implementation, and production readiness of TOpS applications, leading engineers and delivery partners to successful delivery. Design and implement integration solutions using API, event-driven, and asynchronous messaging patterns, selecting approaches based on functional and non-functional requirements. Define and govern integration patterns, API contracts, event schemas, message contracts, and publishi

- **Id**: 3873069
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pearson-lead-specialist-technical-architect>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:22:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:39:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5130
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Publishing, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 34029
- **Name**: Pearson
- **Domain**: pearson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pearson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.769
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EventBridge** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **MySQL** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T15:15:30Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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