Staff Software Architect (AI) Remote

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 (45 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.

Qualifications :

• 8 years in software engineering
• 5 in architecture or principal roles
• Experience with at least one modern backend language (Javago Python Rust or ).
• 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. 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

Additional Information :

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experians culture is people-first inclusive and purpose-driven. It is also 2025 Fortune Global Top 25 named it one of the Worlds 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

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Employment Type :

Full-time