Staff Architect - Data Platform (Remote)

Experian Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Medical benefits

Remote/hybrid option

Vacation & holidays

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Job summary

Experian is seeking a Staff Architect to join our Data & AI Platform Architecture team. This builder-architect will shape analytics, AI/ML enablement, and data infrastructure at enterprise scale.

You will lead cross-border data initiatives, privacy-preserving mechanisms, and ontology-driven products, while collaborating with data science teams and engineering across regions. This individual contributor role emphasizes fundamentals and mentoring.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering focusing on data platforms, analytics infrastructure, and AI/ML systems.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in science, technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated first-principles reasoning about platform tradeoffs and mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience across the data lifecycle from ingestion to BI/ML delivery.
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, governance, and lineage at scale.
• Experience designing architectures for unified, governed data access.
• Experience overseeing shared platform architectures and tradeoffs.
• Experience with distributed computing and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and production workloads.
• Hands-on experience with graph databases and entity resolution systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop cross-border data products using privacy-preserving techniques and shared semantics.
• Build cross-border entity resolution with data science teams for matching quality.
• Create layers with semantics across regions, governed discovery and access.
• Guide technology adoption through reference implementations and patterns.
• Lead prototyping and R&D with product and engineering teams to validate Data & AI capabilities.
• Mentor engineers in fundamentals thinking, system design, and product awareness.

Skills

Data platforms

Analytics infrastructure

AI/ML systems

First-principles reasoning

Cloud-native

Distributed computing

MLOps platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Graph databases

Entity resolution

Record linkage

Infrastructure as code

AWS

Job description

Role Overview

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Architect to join our Data & AI Platform Architecture team. We are a small, high impact group that shapes technology strategy across analytics products, AI/ML enablement, and data infrastructure at enterprise scale.

This is a role for a builder-architect, someone with deep fundamentals in data, analytics, and MLOps platforms. You are equally comfortable evaluating build-vs-buy tradeoffs, integrating commercial platforms where they're the right tool, and building the missing primitives yourself when they're not.

You reason from fundamentals about how data moves within an organization, and how value is generated from it. You understand how organizations have traditionally made data usable for human users and how to extend it to be usable by AI agents.

You will sit within a global team chartered to build global data products and the mechanisms that make cross-border workflows possible. You will lead how we make regional data usable across borders by applying semantic and ontology standards across regions, and entity resolution that connects regional data without centralizing it.

You will report to the Sr. Director of Platform Engineering. This is an individual contributor position.

What you'll do here

• Develop the mechanisms that make cross-border data products possible by privacy-preserving techniques, derived signals that can cross borders, and shared semantics
• Build cross-border entity resolution as the foundational capability underneath those products, working with our data science teams on matching approaches and match quality.
• Build the layers that make our data consumable by agents with semantics and ontologies across regions, governed discovery, and access paths that keep usage accurate, and compliant.
• Guide technology adoption across engineering teams through reference implementations and reusable patterns that teams adopt
• Lead focused prototyping and R&D efforts with product and engineering teams to validate new Data & AI capabilities
• Mentor engineers across the organization in your areas of expertise, with a focus on fundamentals thinking, system design, and product awareness.

Experience and Skills

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on data platforms, analytics infrastructure, and AI/ML systems
• Bachelor's degree or higher in science, technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated first-principles reasoning about platform tradeoffs, able to explain at the mechanism level why a system behaves the way it does
• Hands-on experience across the full data lifecycle, from ingestion to transformation, from delivery into BI and ML consumption
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, and data quality as platform engineering concerns, building the systems that enforce lineage, catalog metadata, and governance policy at scale.
• Experience designing architectures that deliver unified, governed access to data across systems
• Demonstrated experience overseeing and evolving shared platform architectures, including setting boundaries, managing tradeoffs, and adapting designs
• Experience with distributed computing and cloud-native infrastructure (Amazon Web Services preferred), including the cost and operational dynamics of running data workloads
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and operating production workloads.
• Hands-on experience with graph databases, entity resolution or record linkage systems

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

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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Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's people first, inclusive and purpose driven culture is multi award-winning; World's Best Workplaces 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work in 26 countries to name a few.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay range for this position is listed above. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors such as job-related skills, experience, and education. This position is also eligible for a variable pay opportunity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Experian's recruitment process is conducted only through authorised channels. Recruitment communications will only be sent from an @experian.com email address. Experian will never ask candidates to make any payment as part of a recruitment process.

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.