Software Engineering Manager

Pearson VUE

. Manage engineers building and operating Pearson Virtual Schools’ Connexus student, curriculum, and assessment data platform and related products .

Posted 10/14/2026full-timeColombo • Sri LankaJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing engineering teams to deliver AI-fluent products while ensuring compliance with FERPA and data security standards. Proficient in overseeing model-backed capabilities, legacy system migration, and maintaining high-quality delivery under pressure.

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Team ManagementAI-Fluent EngineeringModel-Backed Capability DeliveryLegacy System MigrationFERPA Compliance

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Hard Skills

Engineering ManagementModel EvaluationSQL ServerPostgreSQLAPI ManagementCloud ComputingDevOpsSoftware DesignPerformance ManagementCode Review

Soft Skills

CoachingProblem SolvingWritten CommunicationTeam CollaborationResilience Planning

Tools & Technologies

Connexus Data PlatformMCP ServersEvaluation SuitesGolden DatasetsAutomated Merge Gates

Industry Keywords

FERPAK-12 EducationPrivacy-Sensitive EnvironmentsAI AgentsGenerative AI

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudPostgresSQL.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage engineers building and operating Pearson Virtual Schools’ Connexus student, curriculum, and assessment data platform and related products
Allocate daily work, provide immediate support, and maintain reliable delivery schedules
Give timely feedback and escalate unresolved issues early
Own onboarding and ramp-up for new team members
Hire engineers against the organization’s AI-fluent engineering standards
Apply guardrails, human-in-the-loop fallback, escalation, disclosure, and evaluation requirements to agentic product capabilities
Require evaluation sets with stated pass bars and release gates before model-backed behavior reaches students
Monitor reliability, hallucination, model performance, and drift against stated thresholds
Enforce specification-first practices, contract-level tests, negative tests, automated merge gates, and model evaluations
Drive contributions to shared libraries, MCP servers, evaluation suites, skills, and golden datasets
Coach engineers on the job and recognize contributions specifically
Build team understanding of Connexus data foundations across student, enrollment, curriculum, assessment, progress, attendance, and school operations data
Lead migration and cutover execution, including legacy analysis, reconciliation, rollback planning, dependency coordination, and production-readiness validation
Guide translation of legacy SQL Server, stored procedure, and .NET behavior into PostgreSQL schemas, APIs, events, and domain contracts
Apply FERPA-sensitive data boundaries, externalized authorization, and audit-ready controls

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years managing engineers who ship to production, including hiring, performance, and development
Working engineering background sufficient to review technical decisions and be credible with AI-fluent engineers
Experience delivering a model-backed or agentic capability to real users, including evaluation before release and monitoring afterward
Experience holding a quality gate under delivery pressure
Experience managing legacy and target platforms simultaneously while continuing to ship
Comfortable managing a distributed team across time zones with strong written discipline
Experience in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments; K-12 and FERPA exposure is an advantage
Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
Knowledge of artificial intelligence, information security, problem solving, technical acumen, API management, cloud computing, data security, DevOps, ethical responsibility, resilience planning, and software design
Knowledge of AI agents, AutoAI, large language models, generative AI, evaluation of AI-generated content quality, performance management, and code review

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid work arrangement
Full-time employment