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Architecture Specialist II

Auto-translated from Portuguese · original: Especialista de Arquitetura II

5 day weekFortune 100 Best '26Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company that drives opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate in diverse markets, such as financial services, healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, among others. Experian invests in people and in new advanced technologies to unleash the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 employees in 32 countries.

Our uniqueness is valuing yours. Experian's culture, which is people-centered, inclusive and purpose-driven, is recognized by various awards — including World's Best Workplaces™ 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25) and Great Place To Work™ in 26 countries, among others. Check out Experian Life on social media or explore our careers site to understand why. Experian also takes pride in being an employer that promotes equal opportunity and affirmative action.

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal Architect to technically lead the architectural evolution of a set of the company's strategic products.

This professional will be responsible for defining the long-term architectural vision, establishing corporate standards and technically directing multiple engineering teams, ensuring that solutions are scalable, resilient, secure and aligned with business objectives.

We expect a professional with strong influence capability, systemic vision and strategic thinking, able to connect technology and business, promoting consistent architectural decisions and accelerating the technological evolution of the organization.

Daily Responsibilities

  • Technically lead multiple engineering teams, acting as the main reference in software and platform architecture;

  • Define the architectural strategy of the products aligned with the technology roadmap and business needs;

  • Establish architecture patterns, principles and best practices for the entire organization;

  • Conduct Architecture Reviews, Design Reviews and Technical Assessments of the main initiatives;

  • Support technical leads and engineers in making complex decisions;

  • Ensure that solutions meet requirements for scalability, availability, security, observability and performance;

  • Work together with Engineering, Product, Security, Data and Infrastructure on the evolution of the technology platform;

  • Lead the adoption of new technologies, frameworks and architectural patterns;

  • Act as technical reference in critical incidents involving architectural decisions;

  • Promote the continuous evolution of the architecture, reducing technical debt and increasing technological maturity.

Main Deliverables

  • Definition and evolution of the reference architecture of the products;

  • Architectural roadmap aligned with the company's strategies;

  • Corporate standards for development, integration and architecture;

  • Evolution of the architecture to support growth in scale, performance and resilience;

  • Definition of standards for APIs, microservices, events and integrations;

  • Architectural governance through ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), Design Reviews and Technical Standards;

  • Reduction of structural technical debt;

  • Evolution of cloud and engineering platforms;

  • Monitoring of architectural indicators (Resilience, Availability, Performance, Security, Cost and Scalability);

  • Technical development of the community of architects and Tech Leads through mentoring, workshops and communities of practice.

What we are looking for in you

Leadership

  • Proven experience technically leading multiple engineering teams;

  • Ability to influence technical leads, architects and executives;

  • Excellent technical and executive communication;

  • Strategic vision of enterprise architecture;

  • Ability to make decisions considering technical and business trade-offs;

  • Experience conducting Architecture Reviews and strategic decisions

Qualifications

  • Microservices Architecture;

  • Domain Driven Design (DDD);

  • Event Driven Architecture;

  • API First;

  • GraphQL and REST;

  • Enterprise Integration Patterns;

  • Event-Oriented Architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ);

  • Kubernetes;

  • Docker;

  • Service Mesh (Istio);

  • Cloud Native Architecture;

  • AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3);

  • Terraform;

  • CI/CD;

  • Observability (OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana);

  • Resilience (Circuit Breaker, Retry, Bulkhead, Timeout);

  • Performance Engineering;

  • Application Security;

  • OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT;

  • Zero Trust Architecture;

  • Platform Engineering;

  • FinOps;

  • Data Architecture (when applicable).

Nice to have

  • AWS Professional or Specialty certifications;

  • TOGAF;

  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or CKA;

  • Experience with internal platforms (Platform Engineering);

  • Knowledge of AI applied to software development;

  • Experience in large distributed environments (Large Scale Systems);

  • Participation in technical communities, events or content production.

Additional Information

Serasa Experian is much more than you imagine. With the purpose of creating a better future, expanding opportunities for people and businesses, in Brazil we are more than 4 thousand people working in various teams and specialties. Here, each knowledge and diversity complements each other and you can work on what you love most. We are committed to building an inclusive culture and an environment in which people can balance their careers with their commitments and personal interests, valuing well-being.

We are very dedicated to being one of the best and most innovative companies to work for in the country, enabling amazing experiences and careers for our people. Our strong people-first approach is recognized externally through various market certifications: we were awarded by Great Place To Work™ in 24 countries and by the international Top Employers certification, besides being recognized as one of the best companies for young professionals and having a 4.6 rating on Glassdoor. Each recognition tells us that we are on the right path, providing an increasingly better work environment for our talents.

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