Description
Job Title: Lead Specialist, Solution Architect
Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery
Location: Bangalore or Chennai, India (Hybrid)

Role Summary
As a Solution Architect (E30), you will design and deliver new services on Microsoft Azure aligned with Pearson’s enterprise standards. Your remit includes the development of secure, scalable solution architectures, while ensuring integration across legacy on-premise and AWS components where needed. You will collaborate with product owners, business analysts, delivery teams (including technical architects and developers) and external partners to convert business requirements into effective technical solutions. This includes evaluating solution options, estimating costs and ensuring that designs meet both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. security, performance, availability, scalability). Transparent communication and stakeholder engagement are essential in this role.

Key Responsibilities
- Solution Architecture Design:



Lead the design of end-to-end solutions on Azure (and advise on on-premise or AWS where needed), selecting optimal services and patterns to meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Produce architecture blueprints, dataflows and interface specifications.
- Solution Option Analysis & Cost Estimation: Work with business analysts and product owners to evaluate multiple solution options, ensuring the trade-offs are understood. Provide cost and effort estimations (including infrastructure, licensing and operational considerations), and help recommend solutions that balance performance, scalability and total cost of ownership.
- Technical Leadership & Governance: Serve as design authority throughout delivery. Provide guidance, mentoring and quality assurance to delivery teams and third-party partners. Develop and refine architectural standards where gaps exist to ensure consistent best practices.
- Support Delivery Teams: Collaborate closely with delivery teams—including

📌 Lead Specialist, Solution Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Bengaluru