Pearson

Pearson

Software Engineering Team Manager

Washington, District of Columbia · Mid

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About the role

  • Your teams will work on both sides of this technology, the legacy and the new.
  • That changes what an engineering manager is accountable for.
  • That means you can review work produced by engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering, understand the role and limits of evaluation sets, and treat quality as a release gate rather than a late-stage phase.

Responsibilities

  • Own planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments for your team, and the operating rhythm that makes progress visible without a status meeting
  • Allocate people to work, manage escalations, and resolve blockers quickly and transparently
  • Ensure guardrails, human-in-the-loop fallback, escalation, and disclosure are designed into the interaction rather than added after a complaint
  • Build succession inside the team, so no specialization sits with exactly one person
  • Lead the overall engineering delivery for Data Foundations, including roadmap execution, platform readiness, migration sequencing, cutover planning, dependency management, and coordination across source systems, downstream consumers, and partner teams
  • Set expectations for data contracts, quality gates, lineage, observability, access controls, operational readiness, and support ownership across the data domains the team manages
  • Partner closely with Product, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Solution Architecture, Security, Compliance, our DevOps and SRE platform team, and vendor teams to align delivery priorities, resolve dependencies, and protect continuity during modernization

Nice to have

  • 4+ years managing engineers who ship to production, including hiring, performance, and development
  • A working engineering background, enough to review a technical decision and to be credible with engineers operating at our bar for AI-fluent engineering
  • Experience delivering a model-backed or agentic capability to real users, including how it was evaluated before release and monitored afterward
  • Practiced at holding a quality gate under delivery pressure, and able to describe a time you held one and a time you should have
  • Experience managing across a legacy and a target platform at the same time, where the team cannot stop shipping on either
  • Comfortable managing a distributed team across time zones, with the written discipline that requires
  • Experience in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments
  • K-12 and FERPA exposure an advantage

Skills

  • Adaptability
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Learning to Learn
  • Engineering fundamentals
  • Collaboration
  • Information Security
  • Innovation
  • Problem Solving
  • Technical Acumen
  • Role-specific skills
  • API Management
  • Cloud Computing

Benefits

  • Drive the team's contribution to the governed shared library, so skills, MCP servers, evaluation suites, and golden datasets leave the team rather than staying in it

Company info

  • At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning.
  • We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough.
  • We are the world's lifelong learning company.
  • For us, learning isn't just what we do.
  • It's who we are.
  • To learn more: We are Pearson.
  • Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify.
  • Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
  • Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law.
  • We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
  • If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
  • Job: Engineering
  • Job Family: TECHNOLOGY
  • Organization: Virtual Learning
  • Schedule: FULL_TIME
  • Workplace Type: Remote
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