Director Architecture

Job Description Job Description We're looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to define, design, and evolve AWS-based batch and data processing solutions. Partnering with engineering and product teams, you'll guide designs from concept to deployment, ensuring platforms are secure, scalable, high-performance, and cost-efficient. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role shaping our UKI Batch Platform and influencing cloud and product architecture across the business. What You'll Do - Define and execute the architectural application strategy and roadmap for the UKI Batch Platform, aligning with cloud transformation and business priorities. - Collaborate with Product teams to define the UKI Batch strategy and integrate it into the broader organisational roadmap. - Lead the technical design for multiple platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with best practices and enterprise standards. - Design secure, scalable solutions using AWS services and Experian-developed capabilities. - Ensure all solutions meet critical non-functional requirements including scalability, performance, observability, and FINOPS cost optimisation. - Partner with engineering to ensure delivery quality, resilience, and maintainability. - Evaluate and adopt emerging AWS services, design patterns, and tools to accelerate delivery and improve platform robustness. - Chair or participate in architecture reviews, providing actionable, constructive feedback to teams. - Promote reusability, quality engineering standards, and architectural alignment across global teams. Qualifications - 7+ years in solution architecture or senior technical design roles. - Proven ability to set architectural vision and influence senior stakeholders in Product and the wider business. - Strong AWS experience with the AWS Well-Architected Framework solid track record in data platform, ETL, and batch processing architectures. - Proficiency in C# (.NET) and at least one other language (Scala/Python preferred). - Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and compliance teams, guiding solutions from strategy to deployment. Impact As Lead Solution Architect, you will shape and safeguard the architecture of the UKI Batch Platform - a missioncritical data processing foundation that underpins multiple flagship products, delivers workloads for strategic clients, and supports multimillionpound annual revenues. Your leadership will ensure these platforms scale efficiently, remain secure and resilient, and consistently meet stringent performance, compliance, and client SLAs. By aligning technical architecture with business priorities, you'll enable faster product innovation, accelerate timetomarket for new capabilities, and ensure the platform continues to be a trusted, highthroughput engine for hundreds of millions of consumer records and strategic customer workloads. In doing so, you will not only preserve current revenue streams but also unlock opportunities for growth through new data products, advanced analytics, and integration of AI/LLM capabilities - reinforcing our market leadership and deepening our most strategic customer relationships. Additional Information Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. Experian's people first approach is award-winning World's Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work in 24 countries, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site and Glassdoor to understand why. Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is a critical part of Experian's DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, color, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity. Benefits Experian care for employee's work life balance, health, safety and wellbeing. In support of this endeavor, we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits, enhanced medical benefits and paid time off. Experian Careers - Creating a better tomorrow together