Staff Software Architect (AI) - Remote

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Job Description

The Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for a Staff Software Architect. You will be reporting to the Software Development Director.

Architecture Leadership

• Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability (4–5 9s uptime).
• Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects, such as event-driven architecture, observability, service mesh integration, and rate-limiting strategies.
• Define roadmaps across API platforms with emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and rapid experimentation
• Apply enterprise architecture principles and standards while balancing near-term delivery and long-term platform goals
• Build for leverage by creating reusable frameworks, automation, and internal tooling to accelerate teams
• Integrate AI into every layer of architecture to support thoughtful, agentic system design.

Platform and Technical Leadership

• Lead technical design across consumer products and internal platforms
• Support agent-based automation and apply MCP to promote scalable AI workflows
• Shape cohesive end-to-end architecture spanning APIs, services, and frontends

Collaboration and Influence

• Bring complex projects from concept to production, influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems to improve engineering quality.
• Promote adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and LLM-integrated workflows
• Advance system-level thinking and reusabili...