Staff AI Architect — Remote Cloud-Native Platform Lead

Experian; Aurora (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation

Bonus plan

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Remote/hybrid/work in-office

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Staff AI Architect to lead the technical vision and architectural strategy for our cloud-native platform and agentic AI capabilities. You will shape system design and promote infrastructure excellence at scale within AWS, reporting to the Sr.

Principal Engineer in a remote-friendly setting. This role combines hands-on architecture, governance of DevOps standards, SRE practices, and collaboration with product and partners.

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 (≥99.99%), 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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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.

Skills

AWS at scale

Kubernetes (EKS)

DevOps & CI/CD

SRE practices

Cloud security

Data architecture

Agentic AI patterns

API gateway patterns

Distributed systems

Cost optimization

Education

B.S. or M.S. in CS/Systems Eng

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

Terraform/CDK

Helm

ArgoCD/Flux

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Harness CI/CD

Vault

Job description

Experian is seeking a Staff AI Architect to lead the technical vision and architectural strategy for our cloud-native platform and agentic AI capabilities. You will shape system design and promote infrastructure excellence at scale within AWS, reporting to the Sr.

Principal Engineer in a remote-friendly setting. This role combines hands-on architecture, governance of DevOps standards, SRE practices, and collaboration with product and partners.