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 DescriptionThe 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 reusability through shared scaffolds and frameworks
Innovation and Organizational Impact
- Lead the Exponential Engineer Initiative to grow AI-first engineering through reusable agents, automation, and internal platforms
- Promote agent-based design, prompt abstraction, and developer enablement across teams
- • Evaluate and apply latest technologies, especially Generative AI, to improve engineering and results.
- 8+ years in software engineering
- 5+ in architecture or principal roles
- Experience with at least one modern backend language (Java,go, Python, Rust, or Node.js).
- You have experience integrating LLMs with APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
- Experience with AI agent design, LLM orchestration (such as MCP), and integration of AI tools into developer workflows.
- Proficiency or active use of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and prompt-based development tools.
- Experience in developer enablement, automation platforms, or engineering transformation projects.
- Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
- Expertise in microservices, GraphQL, API-first design, and AWS-native systems
- Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
- Operational experience in monitoring, observability, and incident response
- Experience building multi-agent systems at scale
- Exposure to AI observability platforms (prompt tracing, token analytics)
- Experience with fine-tuning or model customization
- Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms
- Experience scaling AI systems to high-volume production workloads
- Experience defining AI evaluation benchmarks and KPIs
- Experience defining AI governance, compliance, and responsible AI practices
Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's culture is people-first, inclusive, and purpose-driven. It is also multi-award-winning. In 2025, Fortune Global Top 25 named it one of the World's Best Workplaces™. Additionally, it has been recognized as a Great Place To Work™ in 26 countries, to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or explore our Careers Site to understand why.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. We list the base pay range for this position above. Within this range, work location and additional factors such as job-related experience, and education determine individual pay. You will be also eligible for a variable pay opportunity and a comprehensive benefits package.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all groups protected under applicable federal, state and local law, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
Benefits/Perks:
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
Explore all our exciting benefits here: https://yourexperianbenefits.com/cand-index.html
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Skills Required
- 8+ years in software engineering
- 5+ in architecture or principal roles
- Experience with at least one modern backend language (Java, Go, Python, Rust, or Node.js)
- Experience integrating LLMs with APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
- Experience in developer enablement, automation platforms, or engineering transformation projects
- Proficiency or active use of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka), and stream processing frameworks
Experian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Experian and has not been reviewed or approved by Experian.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical and dental coverage is described as strong, with expanded mental health resources and telemedicine options. Coverage includes inclusive services such as gender transition and fertility support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are generous, including substantial PTO/vacation, paid holidays, and paid volunteer days with options to purchase additional leave. Parental leave is available for birth and non-birth parents alongside flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company matching and contributory pension schemes in some regions. These elements complement base pay and bonuses to form a competitive total rewards package.
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What We Do
Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. During life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity. We gather, analyse and process data in ways others can’t. We help individuals take financial control and access financial services, businesses make smarter decision and thrive, lenders lend more responsibly, and organizations prevent identity fraud and crime. For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 20,600 people in 43 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow. About Experian: Bringing data to life requires creativity, passion, flexibility and expertise. We want you to share in our success. That's why we offer rewards that recognise great performance. Working in a culture of collaboration, achievement and respect we will give you the support and encouragement you need to develop your skills and talents and progress your career. Everyday our people bring enthusiasm, innovation and inspiration to work and if this sounds like you connect with us at Experian.
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