# Principal, Enterprise Architect

Role Overview Pearson Virtual Schools operates learning platforms that serve schools, teachers, and students at enterprise scale, and we are actively rebuilding parts of our technology foundation to be more resilient, secure, and cloud-native. This work sits at the intersection of high-velocity product delivery and the governance expectations of a large, regulated enterprise. As our Principal Enterprise Architect, you lead transformative architectural initiatives for our core platforms, orchestrating large-scale changes that improve performance, security, and interoperability. You balance strategic planning with hands-on technical execution: guiding teams through detailed designs, leading complex integrations, and making the calls that reduce legacy dependencies and technical risk. Your influence extends to cross-functional steering committees and project boards, where your technical judgment shapes the prioritization of multi-year platform investments. This is not an ivory-tower architecture role. You will spend real time on designs, code, and incident retrospectives alongside engineering teams, bringing the pragmatic, ship-and-learn instincts of a high-growth startup to an enterp

- **Id**: 4094915
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pearson-principal-enterprise-architect>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:47:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:55:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7103
- **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**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 22
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.773
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EventBridge** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T20:55:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:17:57Z

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