Staff Software Architect (AI)

Experian • Allen, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for a Staff Software Architect. You will be reporting to the Software Development Director. This role involves leading architecture and design for real-time API platforms, focusing on scalability, low-latency, and high availability. You will lead platform-wide projects, define roadmaps, and apply enterprise architecture principles. A key aspect of this role is integrating AI into every layer of the architecture to support agentic system design. You will also provide platform and technical leadership for consumer products and internal platforms, shape cohesive end-to-end architecture, and promote the adoption of AI tools and workflows. Additionally, you will lead the Exponential Engineer Initiative to grow AI-first engineering and evaluate the application of the latest technologies, especially Generative AI.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 5+ in architecture or principal roles
• Experience with at least one modern backend language (Java,go, Python, Rust, or Node.js).
• You have experience integrating LLMs with APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
• Experience with AI agent design, LLM orchestration (such as MCP), and integration of AI tools into developer workflows.
• Proficiency or active use of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and prompt-based development tools.
• Experience in developer enablement, automation platforms, or engineering transformation projects.
• Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
• Expertise in microservices, GraphQL, API-first design, and AWS-native systems
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
• Operational experience in monitoring, observability, and incident response
• Experience building multi-agent systems at scale
• Exposure to AI observability platforms (prompt tracing, token analytics)
• Experience with fine-tuning or model customization
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms
• Experience scaling AI systems to high-volume production workloads
• Experience defining AI evaluation benchmarks and KPIs
• Experience defining AI governance, compliance, and responsible AI practices

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability (4–5 9s uptime).
• Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects, such as event-driven architecture, observability, service mesh integration, and rate-limiting strategies.
• Define roadmaps across API platforms with emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and rapid experimentation
• Apply enterprise architecture principles and standards while balancing near-term delivery and long-term platform goals
• Build for leverage by creating reusable frameworks, automation, and internal tooling to accelerate teams
• Integrate AI into every layer of architecture to support thoughtful, agentic system design.
• Lead technical design across consumer products and internal platforms
• Support agent-based automation and apply MCP to promote scalable AI workflows
• Shape cohesive end-to-end architecture spanning APIs, services, and frontends
• Bring complex projects from concept to production, influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems to improve engineering quality.
• Promote adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and LLM-integrated workflows
• Advance system-level thinking and reusability through shared scaffolds and frameworks
• Lead the Exponential Engineer Initiative to grow AI-first engineering through reusable agents, automation, and internal platforms
• Promote agent-based design, prompt abstraction, and developer enablement across teams
• Evaluate and apply latest technologies, especially Generative AI, to improve engineering and results.

Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed