Staff Platform Architect: Data & AI Foundations

Experian Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation package

Bonus plan

Medical benefits

Flexible work options

Paid time off

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to lead the Data & AI Platform Architecture team. The role focuses on data, analytics, and MLOps platforms at enterprise scale, with responsibilities ranging from evolving existing platforms to greenfield AI-ready data foundations.

You will mentor engineers, influence cross-team architecture decisions, and drive prototyping for new AI capabilities. Strong cloud and governance expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with a focus on data platforms, analytics infra, and AI/ML systems at enterprise scale.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in science, technology, engineering or related field.
• Experience building or operating MLOps platforms from data access to deployment and monitoring.
• Experience with data modeling, metadata, lineage, and data governance.
• Hands-on experience with AI agent-based architectures and governed data access.

Responsibilities

• Evolve our batch, analytics and MLOps platforms to improve reliability, cost, and efficiency.
• Develop infrastructure for semantic and ontology layers including governance tooling and catalog integration.
• Design usage infrastructure for BI tools, ML pipelines, AI agents, internal users, and client products.
• Design agent-driven data access patterns, including permission-aware semantic discovery and identity federation for AI workloads.
• Guide architectural decisions across engineering teams and mentor engineers.

Skills

Data platform expertise

Analytics infrastructure

AI/ML systems

MLOps platforms

Cloud-native computing

Infrastructure as code

Federated catalogs

Security governance

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Experian is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to lead the Data & AI Platform Architecture team. The role focuses on data, analytics, and MLOps platforms at enterprise scale, with responsibilities ranging from evolving existing platforms to greenfield AI-ready data foundations.

You will mentor engineers, influence cross-team architecture decisions, and drive prototyping for new AI capabilities. Strong cloud and governance expertise are required.