Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job description

Job Description

As part of the ECS Technology team you will collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams including Product Owners Engineering Managers Engineers Designers and Quality Assurance specialists. You will provide senior technical leadership across teams ensuring the delivery of secure scalable and cloud-native solutions aligned with Experian standards and platform strategy.

You will operate as a technical authority across your domain guiding architectural decisions driving measurable technical improvements and coaching engineers to continuously raise the bar on quality innovation and performance.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and influential Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across one or more engineering domains.

This is a senior individual contributor role focused on technical excellence architectural oversight compliance innovation and capability development. You will act as a role model across teams mentoring engineers driving measurable improvements and ensuring our domain remains secure resilient and aligned with Experian policies and standards.

You will balance customer needs user experience delivery timelines and long-term technical health while guiding teams through change and ambiguity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and drive measurable technical improvement and innovation across the ECS Tech platform and your domain.

• Ensure applications and services are fully compliant with Experian standards security policies and governance requirements.

• Support teams in identifying and executing plans to bring systems back into policy where required.

• Act as a technical authority in architectural discussions refinement sessions code reviews and documentation standards.

• Coach and mentor engineers across multiple teams delivering tangible improvements in skills and technical capability.

• Partner with Engineering Managers to identify knowledge and performance gaps and support development plans to address them.

• Drive the adoption and effective use of technical metrics to proactively identify risks improve performance and increase engineering quality.

• Guide teams in managing ambiguity navigating change and delivering during business transformation initiatives.

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to define and refine technical roadmaps aligned to the financial year and broader ECS strategy.

• Encourage smart risk-taking experimentation and continuous improvement.

• Promote strong cross-domain collaboration to ensure solutions meet customer and business needs.

• Stay informed on emerging industry trends and the wider Experian technical horizon sharing insights within your domain.

• Act as a role model for communication professionalism and technical excellence across all levels of the organisation.

Qualifications & Skills

• 15 years of experience in software engineering data engineering or SDET roles within enterprise environments.

• Proven experience driving architectural design and technical strategy across multiple teams or domains.

• Strong background in secure software development and enterprise compliance standards.

• Extensive experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or Azure) and microservices-based systems.

• Deep understanding of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines observability and reliability engineering.

• Experience using technical metrics (e.g. DORA metrics reliability metrics quality indicators) to drive measurable improvements.

• Strong expertise in modern engineering stacks such Core React and cloud services including AWS (EC2 Lambda S3 DynamoDB SNS SQS) or Azure equivalents.

• Experience influencing engineering standards across distributed teams.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineers and technical leads.

• Strong understanding of security resilience scalability and performance best practices.

• Experience operating in complex multi-team multi-location environments.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• .Net
• React
• AWS
• Architecture
• System Design
• DynamoDb

Additional Information :

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experians culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI work/life balance development authenticity collaboration wellness reward & recognition volunteering... the list goes on. Experians people first approach is award-winning; Worlds Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Top 25) Great Place To Work in 24 countries and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experians DNA and practices and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work irrespective of their gender ethnicity religion colour sexuality physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time