Lead Specialist, Solution Architect
Role Overview
Pearson's Enterprise Integrations function is looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and enterprise delivery.
In this role, you'll embed directly with strategic and hyperscaler accounts to design, build, and troubleshoot the technical connections between Pearson's enterprise offerings and client systems: HRIS, LMS, identity, and data platforms.
You'll translate client-specific technical requirements into working integrations at pace, closing the gap between what our platforms are designed to do and what a given enterprise account needs them to do today.
You'll provide technical leadership on defined integration projects, turning client and partner constraints into secure, viable integration architectures, and support delivery teams through implementation.
We're looking for someone with strong API management and infrastructure-as-code experience, a solid grounding in information security practices, and the stakeholder skills to work directly with enterprise and hyperscaler clients on technical scoping and problem-solving.
Key Skills for This Role
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What You'll Do
Design, build, and deploy integration solutions between Pearson's enterprise products / platforms and client systems including HRIS (SAP TIH, Workday), LMS, and identity providers
Work directly with strategic and hyperscaler accounts to scope integration requirements, resolve technical blockers, and accelerate time to value
Partner with the Integrations Engineering Lead and platform teams to ensure client-specific builds feed back into reusable, scalable integration patterns rather than one-off solutions
Act as the technical escalation point for enterprise integration incidents, troubleshooting and resolving issues in production
Collaborate with our Integrations Product Management to translate client and partner integration needs into roadmap input and prioritised technical requirements
Maintain technical consistency across assigned client integrations and ensure conformance to established integration architecture and security standards
Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers within the integrations squad
Document integration architectures, data mappings, and technical runbooks to support scale and knowledge transfer
Support onboarding of new enterprise and hyperscaler integration partners as the platform scales
What You'll Bring
Significant experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or integrations engineering role, ideally in enterprise SaaS or EdTech
Confidence leveraging AI and adjacent technologies as they apply to integration design and solutioning
Demonstrated experience building and supporting production integrations with enterprise identity, HRIS, or LMS systems (SAP, Workday, or equivalent)
Experience working directly with enterprise or strategic accounts on technical scoping and delivery
A track record of turning ambiguous, client-specific requirements into scalable technical solutions
Working knowledge of API-driven and event-driven integration architecture: REST APIs, webhooks, event bus patterns
Comfort operating with ambiguity in a function that is still being stood up
Strong grounding in cybersecurity and information security practices as applied to client integrations
Requirements
- Significant experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or integrations engineering role, ideally in enterprise SaaS or EdTech
- Confidence leveraging AI and adjacent technologies as they apply to integration design and solutioning
- Demonstrated experience building and supporting production integrations with enterprise identity, HRIS, or LMS systems (SAP, Workday, or equivalent)
- Experience working directly with enterprise or strategic accounts on technical scoping and delivery
- A track record of turning ambiguous, client-specific requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Working knowledge of API-driven and event-driven integration architecture: REST APIs, webhooks, event bus patterns
- Comfort operating with ambiguity in a function that is still being stood up
- Strong grounding in cybersecurity and information security practices as applied to client integrations
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