Software Engineering, Team Manager

Pearson•United States,

2d•$165,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

Pearson is hiring three Software Engineering Team Managers in the United States. These roles support different product areas: Vue Testing Services (VTS), Test Delivery (TD), and OnVue - Exam Developer. The VTS roles involve leading teams that support services for the candidate's assessment journey, including registration, payment, and score reporting. The Test Delivery roles focus on leading teams that support the delivery of assessments in test centers and online, with potential value in experience with high-volume, operationally critical, or reliability-focused platforms. The OnVue/Exam Developer roles offer growth and governance opportunities across online proctoring and vendor partnerships, with a need for transformation, quality improvement, and more sustainable processes for ExamDeveloper. In any of these opportunities, the manager will lead through clarity, coaching, accountability, and partnership, translating priorities into achievable plans, strengthening engineering and delivery practices, developing people, managing risk, and guiding the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development. This is a management role with minimal hands-on coding expected.

Requirements

A hands-on technical foundation in software engineering, quality engineering, architecture, technology solutions or a closely related discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading, coaching or managing technical professionals and building effective teams.
Experience delivering software products, platforms or technology services in Agile or similarly iterative environments.
Evidence of leading meaningful change, making sound decisions and improving delivery or team effectiveness.
Working knowledge of modern software delivery, cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, security, reliability, observability and operational readiness.
Experience making people, capacity, priority and delivery decisions in a cross-functional environment.
Experience working across distributed teams, functions or time zones.
Practical experience using or introducing AI-assisted engineering tools, with sound judgement about quality and risk.
Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and stakeholder-influence skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Product and service-platform leadership experience may be particularly useful for VTS.
Experience with high-volume, operationally critical or reliability-focused platforms may be particularly useful for Test Delivery.

Responsibilities

Hire, onboard, coach, develop and retain engineers and technical professionals.
Set clear goals, feedback rhythms, development plans and team operating practices.
Translate product and department priorities into achievable team plans, capacity choices and ownership.
Track sprint and release progress, dependencies, blockers, defects, quality and immediate delivery risks.
Partner with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Security, Operations and business stakeholders.
Maintain strong standards for design, testing, automation, security, observability, documentation and operational readiness.
Use engineering, delivery, quality and team signals to identify patterns and drive improvement.
Guide deliberate adoption of AI-assisted development, testing, review and documentation while protecting quality and security.