Staff AI Architect

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Staff AI Architect shaping Experian’s cloud-native AWS platform and agentic AI architecture. Governing DevOps, infrastructure, security, reliability, and enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the technical vision and architectural strategy for Experian’s cloud-native platform and agentic AI capabilities
  • Manage and evolve end-to-end architectural blueprints for AWS cloud-native applications across compute, data, networking, security, and observability
  • Define and promote agentic AI architecture patterns, standards, and reusable reference architectures
  • Establish and govern DevOps standards, including CI/CD, GitOps, deployment strategies, environment parity, and release engineering
  • Design and oversee platform infrastructure including ECS, EKS, service mesh, API gateways, secrets management, IAM/RBAC, data stores, and multi-account/multi-region AWS topology
  • Lead architecture reviews and make binding technical decisions for high-risk changes
  • Define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, logging, distributed tracing, capacity planning, and incident response frameworks
  • Introduce new technologies through proof-of-concept and risk assessment processes
  • Build internal communities of practice around architectural patterns
  • Produce ADRs, system context diagrams, threat models, and runbooks as sources of truth
  • Advise Product and Partners by translating architectural constraints and capabilities into strategic options
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers and conduct design reviews

Requirements:

  • 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
  • 3+ years in a dedicated architect or principal engineer role
  • 5+ years of AWS architecture experience at scale
  • Experience with multi-account AWS organization design, landing zones/Control Tower, VPC design, IAM governance, and cost optimization
  • Experience architecting highly available distributed systems with low latency and elastic scalability
  • Experience designing agentic AI architectures, including orchestration layers, agent frameworks, tool/API integration, evaluation pipelines, and operational monitoring
  • Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/CDK, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, CI/CD tools, and container security
  • Experience with REST, gRPC, and asynchronous event-driven API gateway patterns
  • Experience establishing SRE practices, including SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, chaos engineering, and game days
  • Knowledge of zero-trust networking, secrets management, SIEM integration, and SOC 2/ISO 27001 compliance frameworks
  • Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, data lakes, OLAP/OLTP boundary design, ElastiCache, and Redis
  • Experience presenting C4 diagrams, sequence diagrams, threat models, ADRs, and runbooks
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations through architecture standards, platform investment, and internal developer experience improvements

Benefits:

  • Great compensation package and bonus plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Matching 401(k)
  • Flexible work environment with remote, hybrid, or in-office options
  • Flexible time off, including volunteer time off, vacation, sick time, and 12 paid holidays
  • Variable pay opportunity
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Inclusive and purpose-driven culture