Senior Staff Architect

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to accomplish their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Job Description

Reporting to Head of Architecture Director, we are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to join the Experian Marketing Services architecture team. You will shape the long-term technology strategy and ensuring a scalable, secure, and interoperable enterprise architecture aligned with Experian's strategic goals. You will collaborate with business and technology partners to evolve and future-proof technology ecosystem that enables innovation, efficiency, and seamless integration across the organization.

What you will do

As an important member of our architecture team, you will be more than just a technical expert; you will be a leader, a mentor, and a strategist. You will contribute to our most critical projects, using your unique blend of technical knowledge to shape our cloud ecosystem. Your daily will involve:

• Guide the Vision: Collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop the next generation of our cloud applications and infrastructure.
• Build Bridges: Being a critical link between teams to ensure technical projects align with strategic goals.
• Guide Excellence: Mentor engineers and promoting a culture of high-quality, secure, and automated development practices.
• Solving Complex Challenges: Architecting solutions for processing high-volume data workloads and ensuring our systems are secure and scalable.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands on software engineering experience
• Experience developing and evolving enterprise-wide architecture strategies aligned with long-term our goals.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with major cloud providers such as AWS and GCP.
• 2+ years of experience in an architecture role
• Cloud & Modernization Expertise: Experienced in cloud migration, legacy system modernization, and designing secure cloud infrastructure using AWS or GCP.
• Architecture & Data: Experienced across application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration domains, with knowledge of large-scale data processing.
• Strategic Planning: Familiar with modernization strategies like rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring, including build vs. buy evaluations.
• Performance & Scalability: Understands non-functional requirements such as reliability, performance, and security.
• Leadership & Communication: Leads technical teams, ensures architectural consistency, and communicates complex ideas to senior partners.

Additional Information

This is a remote position. This is a permanent home-based role in Costa Rica. No relocation available.

Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.

At Experian, we celebrate what makes you unique. Our award-winning culture prioritizes inclusion, well-being, and personal growth, earning recognition from Fortune, Glassdoor, and Great Place to Work™. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer where everyone can succeed—bringing their full selves to work regardless of background, identity, or ability. Accommodations for disabilities are available upon request.

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