Experian

Director of Platform Architecture

Experian
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Nottingham, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture vision and multi-year roadmap for Experian’s shared platforms.
  • Define core platform capabilities spanning identity, data, APIs, eventing, observability, OLTP, and shared services.
  • Design platforms for multi-tenant scalability, resilience, security, cross-region high availability, and multiple business domains.
  • Drive architectural governance, design reviews, reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, and platform guardrails.
  • Collaborate with Cloud COE, Security, Enterprise Architecture, product teams, and other stakeholders on platform direction and integration patterns.
  • Lead adoption of cloud-native patterns, developer experience improvements, self-service tooling, and automation-driven workflows.
  • Mentor architects and engineers and optimize platform performance, cost, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with programming, infrastructure provisioning, and DevOps pipelines.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise-grade platforms with adoption across multiple products.
  • Strong cloud architecture expertise, preferably with AWS; Azure experience is beneficial.
  • Deep understanding of identity platforms including Okta, OAuth2, and OIDC.
  • Experience with global API platforms, event-driven systems, and cross-region high-availability architectures.
  • Understanding of NoSQL, relational, vector database, and streaming ecosystems.
  • Experience in financial services, fraud, or identity verification platforms is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with SAFe, Agile, and platform operating models.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role with a 40% office base.
  • Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan.
  • Pension, BUPA healthcare, and other core benefits.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Benefits and programs supporting development, work/life balance, diversity and inclusion, wellness, recognition, and volunteering.

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About Experian

10,000+ employees

Experian builds credit reporting, identity and fraud prevention, and data analytics software that help lenders, insurers, healthcare providers, and marketers make decisions; it also offers consumer credit monitoring and scores. The company earns via data licensing, decisioning software, and subscription services, operates in 30+ countries, is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, and is a FTSE 100 public company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN); it is one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus.

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