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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.

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 

• Bachelor's 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. 

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