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Staff AI Architect, Remote

Experian • $130K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or similar
  • 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in architect/principal engineer roles
  • 5+ years of AWS architecture experience at scale
  • Experience with distributed systems for high availability and low latency
  • Background in designing agentic AI architectures and orchestration layers
  • Expertise in DevOps practices including Kubernetes and CI/CD tools
  • Knowledge of cloud security architecture and compliance frameworks

Responsibilities

  • Manage and evolve cloud-native application architecture for AWS
  • Define agentic AI architecture patterns and create reference architectures
  • Establish and govern DevOps standards and deployment strategies
  • Design and oversee comprehensive platform infrastructure including AWS services
  • Lead architecture reviews and make critical technical decisions
  • Define SLOs, error budgets, and incident response frameworks
  • Introduce new technologies through structured evaluations and build communities

Benefits

  • Great compensation package and bonus plan
  • Core benefits: medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
  • Flexible work environment - remote, hybrid, or in-office
  • Flexible time off including volunteer opportunities and paid holidays
  • Explore additional benefits at the provided link
Full Job Description
Job Description

Overview

We are looking for a Staff Software Architect to lead the technical vision and architectural strategy for our cloud-native platform and agentic AI capabilities. You will help shape how our systems are designed and evolved at scale. You will also promote infrastructure excellence across the organization, driving their design, deployment, and evolution at scale. You will report to the Sr. Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:
  • Manage and evolve the end-to-end architectural blueprint for cloud-native applications at scale - covering compute, data, networking, security, and observability layers on AWS.
  • Define and promote agentic AI architecture patterns, including multi-agent systems, tool orchestration, memory and retrieval strategies, LLM routing, guardrails, and feedback loops. Translate these patterns into relevant standards and reusable reference architectures.
  • Establish and govern DevOps standards across the organization: CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps practices, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery), environment parity, and release engineering.
  • Design and oversee platform infrastructure. This includes ECS, Kubernetes clusters (EKS), service mesh, API gateway strategy, secrets management, IAM/RBAC governance, and data stores like DynamoDB, Aurora RDS, Postgres, Elastic/OpenSearch. Additionally, it involves multi-account/multi-region AWS topology.
  • Lead architecture reviews and provide binding technical decisions on high-risk changes - balancing velocity, reliability, cost, and security.
  • Define SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, logging standards, distributed tracing, capacity planning, and incident response frameworks.
  • Introduce new technologies through structured PoC and risk assessment processes; build internal communities of practice around architectural patterns.
  • Produce architecture decision records (ADRs), system context diagrams, threat models, and runbooks that serve as the source of truth for platform design.
  • Be a technical advisor to Product and Partners - translating architectural constraints and capabilities into clear strategic options.
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers on architectural thinking, systems design, and engineering leadership; conduct design reviews that raise the technical bar across teams.


Qualifications
  • B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering and systems architecture, with 3+ years in a dedicated architect or principal engineer role.
  • 5+ years of AWS architecture experience at scale - including multi-account organization design, landing zone/Control Tower, VPC design, IAM governance, and cost optimization
  • Experience architecting distributed systems and services that sustain high availability (6499.99%), low latency, and elastic scalability under variable production load.
  • Experience designing agentic AI architectures: orchestration layers, agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent), tool/API integration, evaluation pipelines, and operational monitoring of AI systems.
  • DevOps and platform engineering expertise: Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/CDK, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux (GitOps), GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Harness CI/CD, and container security practices.
  • Background in API gateway patterns (REST, gRPC, async event-driven).
  • Experience establishing SRE practices including SLO definition, error budgets, runbooks, chaos engineering, and game days.
  • Grasp of cloud security architecture: zero-trust networking, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), SIEM integration, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
  • Experience working across data architecture concerns: streaming pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis), data lakes, OLAP/OLTP boundary design, and caching strategies (ElastiCache, Redis).
  • Experience presenting architecture artifacts - C4 diagrams, sequence diagrams, threat models, ADRs
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations through architecture standards, platform investment, and internal developer experience improvements.
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Additional Information

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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About Experian

Experian is a global information services company that provides data and analytical tools to clients around the world. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Experian operates in four main business areas: Credit Services, Decision Analytics, Marketing Services, and Consumer Services. The company provides credit reporting services to businesses and consumers, helping them to make informed decisions about credit and financial risk. Experian also provides data and analytics to help businesses manage risk, prevent fraud, and improve their marketing efforts. The company has operations in 45 countries and serves clients in more than 100 countries.
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51,493 employees
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Founded
1980
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