Global Platform Architect

About the position

Equifax is seeking a Technical Architect to significantly contribute to identifying best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects. You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions focused on our customers' business needs. You are a problem solver who is highly motivated by designing solutions that amaze customers. As a Technical Architect at Equifax, you will design and plan technology solutions, alongside providing leadership and support to development teams. You excel at driving business value through technology and addressing technical issues and concerns.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and engineer complex software products.
• Research and incubate new technologies and frameworks to be used within projects.
• Ensure that team is aligned with the strategic objectives, requirements and platform enterprise architecture.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team members, peers and product engineers/architects on various related topics across other teams.
• Identify architecture solutions to meet functional and non-functional needs of the project.
• Experience in creating conceptual and logical models.
• Be an active member of the architecture community and evangelize cutting edge technology and architectures (e.g. streaming).

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required.
• 5+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in the public cloud, including 10+ years overall relevant experience.
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability ensure functional and performance objectives.
• Experience in languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, Java, Go, Perl, JavaScript and/or node.js.
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases.
• Experience with multiple OSS frameworks and microservice implementation styles.
• Experience with message driven application development (pub-sub, Kafka) and event driven microservice implementation.
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Application Development/Programming - Experience working with software design, programming languages (preferably Python, Java, Javascript), databases and networking. Knowledge of Event Driven Architecture, Functional/Object Oriented Programming.
• Cloud Services (AWS/GCP) - Leveraging cloud native GCP/AWS service while architecting a particular product/platform. Patterns and anti-patterns for Cloud Services.
• DevSecOps - Need to have a strong understanding of both security and DevOps principles. They need to be able to design and implement solutions that meet the security and compliance requirements of the organization.
• Technical Communication/Presentation - Influences business unit leadership by communicating how technology capabilities support business units outcomes.
• Technology Advising/Consulting - Bring new ideas and perspective to table to help improve design and implementation of Technology Architecture.