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Role: Software Developer (Java) ( full or part time) Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery Location: Rotherham or London, UK. Hybrid-working About UK Assessment & Qualifications We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services. About the job The position is for a Developer to work on mainly greenfield development projects to build new serverless microservice based cloud applications in AWS. Currently we are in the middle of a large programme to migrate from monoliths with large areas of overlapping functionality to a capability-based model, which can scale and adapt to an ever faster changing educational landscape. About you We'd expect that you'll have at least 1 year's relevant experience working on the backend and/or frontend, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and ideally working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban, although this is not essential. Key Skills & Experience Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code Experience in building backend services and Web APIs and/or building web single page applications Skills in backend development with Java and/or frontend frameworks like React Applying best practices for chosen development platform (Java, React etc.) Persisting data using relational (SQL) and/or document database Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure application are successfully delivered to production Providing production support to application Strong interpersonal and communication skills Required Skills & Experience Spring boot Docker and containers Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications React Typescript GraphQL Jenkins Terraform NodeJS (Optional) Python (Optional) The role is aligned to either our Rotherham or central London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham. We have successfully worked from home throughout the pandemic, but have adopted hybrid working now national restrictions are lifted; for this role that means visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, adjustments to this due to personal circumstances & preferences are possible. We work a 37.5-hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours. For this role there is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods. We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS (Amazon Web Service) training and certification as part of this role. Your benefits and rewards Here at Pearson we offer a range of benefits, which include: 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days); annual leave trading, +/- 5 days Annual Bonus Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age Life, private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests Stock/share purchase options Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies An employee wellbeing assistance programme Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts Diversity and Inclusion at Pearson We're committed to equity and opportunity, so that all learners can realise the life they imagine and see themselves in our services and products. We believe learning is a powerful force for change and that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are. We're committed to addressing all forms of systematic racism, discrimination and inequality in everything we do. We also believe in giving everyone in the company the chance to help shape a more inclusive culture, in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and in which everyone acts with integrity day-in, day-out. To learn more about Pearson's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here. Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity. The information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process. We are a Stonewall Gold and Top 20 LGBT+ inclusive employer, Investors in People Gold, Race Charter signatory, Disability Confident employer and Working Mums Top Employer. Job: TECHNOLOGY Organization: Assessment & Qualifications Schedule: FULL_TIME Req ID: 7288

Role: Cloud DevOps Engineer (full or part time) Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery Location: Rotherham or London, UK. Hybrid-working About UK Assessment & Qualifications We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services. About the Job This position will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining an operating model to enable the migration of existing technology solutions and deployment of new services to a cloud computing platform. This includes but is not limited to automating and streamlining processes, implementing and maintaining deployment tools and monitoring operational availability. The position will also help troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test and production environments, act as an escalation point for application support and work collaboratively with software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems. About You We'd expect that you'll have relevant experience with a proven track record in design, delivery and deployment of cloud-based, distributed, containerised and serverless applications, alongside Agile development and BAU teams within a globally distributed team. You'll be proactive and innovative, and we'd also prefer you to have experience of mentoring less experienced team members. Key Skills & Experience Cloud certification (AWS ideally, but would consider others such as Google or Azure) Powershell & Chef scripting Windows & Linux operating systems Configuration, Monitoring & automated Deployment tools Security, compliance and fault tolerance within the cloud T-SQL scripting Firewall, Network & Load-Balancing knowledge Source control IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Cloud Compute Accounting Release Management Tools System metrics gathering for improvements Troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Terraform SDLC in an Agile environment Desirable Skills & Experience CI/CD components and process design Working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects Failure based testing such as Simian Army Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity Test-driven development Docker The role is aligned to either our Rotherham or central London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham. We have worked from home throughout the pandemic, but have adopted hybrid working now national restrictions are lifted; for this role that means visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, adjustments to this due to personal circumstances & preferences are possible. We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours. For this role there may be future expectation to provide out of hours support during business critical periods. We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS training and certification as part of this role. Your benefits and rewards Here at Pearson we offer a range of benefits, which include: 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days) Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age Life, private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests Stock/share purchase options Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies An employee wellbeing assistance programme Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts Diversity and Inclusion at Pearson We're committed to equity and opportunity, so that all learners can realise the life they imagine and see themselves in our services and products. We believe learning is a powerful force for change and that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are. We're committed to addressing all forms of systematic racism, discrimination and inequality in everything we do. We also believe in giving everyone in the company the chance to help shape a more inclusive culture, in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and in which everyone acts with integrity day-in, day-out. To learn more about Pearson's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here. Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity. The information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process. We are a Stonewall Gold and Top 20 LGBT+ inclusive employer, Investors in People Gold, Race Charter signatory, Disability Confident employer and Working Mums Top Employer. Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose - to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providi

Role: Senior Software Developer (Java) (full or part time) Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery Location: Rotherham or London, UK. Hybrid-working About UK Assessment & Qualifications We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services. About the job The position is for a Senior Developer to work on mainly greenfield development projects to build new serverless microservice based cloud applications in AWS. Currently we are in the middle of a large programme to migrate from monoliths with large areas of overlapping functionality to a capability-based model, which can scale and adapt to an ever faster changing educational landscape. About you We'd expect that you'll have at least 3 years' relevant experience as a full-stack developer or similar role, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban. Key Skills & Experience Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code Building backend services and Web APIs Strong skills in Java using Spring Boot Building web single page applications using frameworks like React, Angular or Vue Applying best practices for chosen development platform Persisting data using relational (SQL) and/or document databases Understand modern application architectures and how they can be applied, like Microservice / Service Oriented Architectures Experience in cloud native application development and cloud architecture/infrastructure Providing overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice when it comes to development Mentoring more junior members of the team in overall software development Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure application are successfully delivered to production Providing production support to application Strong interpersonal and communication skills Required Skills & Experience Spring boot Docker and containers Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications React Typescript GraphQL Jenkins Terraform AWS Services NodeJS (Optional) Python (Optional) The role is aligned to either our Rotherham or central London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham. We have worked from home throughout the pandemic, but have adopted hybrid working now national restrictions are lifted; for this role that means visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, adjustments to this due to personal circumstances & preferences are possible. We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours. For this role there is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods. We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS training and certification as part of this role. Your benefits and rewards Here at Pearson we offer a range of benefits, which include: 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days); annual leave trading, +/- 5 days Annual Bonus Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age Life, private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests Stock/share purchase options Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies An employee wellbeing assistance programme Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts Diversity and Inclusion at Pearson We're committed to equity and opportunity, so that all learners can realise the life they imagine and see themselves in our services and products. We believe learning is a powerful force for change and that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are. We're committed to addressing all forms of systematic racism, discrimination and inequality in everything we do. We also believe in giving everyone in the company the chance to help shape a more inclusive culture, in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and in which everyone acts with integrity day-in, day-out. To learn more about Pearson's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here. Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity. The information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process. We are a Stonewall Gold and Top 20 LGBT+ inclusive employer, Investors in People Gold, Race Charter signatory, Disability Confident employer and Working Mums Top Employer. Job: TECHNOLO

Visiting Moderator - GCE A Level - Art and Design (2016 Specification) Reference: VM/NS/Art GCE A Level Art and Design (New Specification) Visiting Moderators visit centres to carry out the moderation of certain forms of work which is marked initially by teacher examiners/assessors in the centres. Each moderator will moderate a specified number of centre samples. For the following counties only: Berkshire, Greater Manchester, Guernsey, Humberside, North Yorkshire, Northern Ireland We are also looking for: Responsibilities To carry out the moderation of parts of a subject examination, such as coursework, projects and special studies, which are marked initially by teachers in the centres and then sent to you. Moderation will usually involve sampling procedures. To undertake, when necessary, the direct assessment of school-based components in the subject where centres opt not to make initial assessments. To complete and submit centre reports to the Team Leader or Principal Moderator as required Experience/ Qualifications needed You will have a degree or equivalent You will be a qualified teacher You will have UK based teaching experience in the relevant qualification and subject Competencies Required You will have a high level of subject knowledge in order to apply the mark scheme You will have the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines You will be IT literate About Pearson We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can learn, grow, and thrive. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses.

Examiner - GCE A Level - Design and Technology (2017 Specification) Reference: Ex/GCE/Des(2017) A GCE Design and Technology (2017 Specification) Examiner marks candidates' responses in accordance with the pre-defined mark scheme, whilst adhering to conditions of recognition and examination procedures. Most subjects will be marked onscreen using ePEN, which can be done from home. A few subjects are still marked in the traditional method, using paper scripts sent through the post. A high level of subject knowledge is necessary in order to apply the mark scheme. Each examiner will receive an agreed allocation of scripts. We are also recruiting for the following: Responsibilities To mark accurately and consistently to ensure overall standards are maintained To submit samples to your Team Leader at designated times To ensure milestones for marking are adhered to To ensure all administration is completed as specified Experience/qualifications needed You will have one academic year's worth of teaching experience: a. within the last 8 years b. within the relevant qualification subject c. since qualifying as a teacher You will have a degree or equivalent You will be a qualified teacher Competencies required You will have the ability to work well under pressure You will have the ability to meet deadlines You will have a high level of subject knowledge in order to apply the mark scheme Additional information The marking period is between May - July. The training required to mark as an examiner will take place between May and June. About Pearson We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can learn, grow, and thrive. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses.