Lead Specialist, Solution Architect

Lead Specialist, Solution Architect - OnVUE

About OnVUE

OnVUE is Pearson’s online proctored test delivery platform, supporting the secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of assessments for Pearson’s certification and professional testing business. The platform enables candidates to test remotely while maintaining exam integrity through identity verification, monitoring, secure delivery workflows, and operational controls. The OnVUE environment includes modern and legacy systems, with ongoing focus on platform modernization, service resilience, API-first integration, cloud-native delivery, candidate and proctor experience, and improved developer and operational practices.

Role summary

As a Lead Specialist, Solution Architect, you are a recognized subject-matter expert who provides technical leadership for sophisticated, high-impact solution work. You independently translate business needs, stakeholder constraints, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, viable, and maintainable architectural models and guide solution delivery from inception through implementation.

You maintain technical consistency within the assigned scope, balance advanced solution design with hands-on support for complex delivery challenges, and resolve day-to-day integration and build issues. You influence through depth of knowledge, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to steer architecture discussions toward practical outcomes. You mentor engineers, junior architects, and peers, establish trusted technical patterns within your domain, ensure conformance to established frameworks, and escalate decisions that materially exceed the assigned scope to senior experts.