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Architecture Specialist II

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

5 day weekFortune 100 Best '26Remote · Brazil

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company that powers 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 new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an incredible team of 25,200 employees in 32 countries.

Our uniqueness is valuing yours. Experian’s people-first, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture is recognized by numerous awards — including World’s Best Workplaces™ 2025 (Fortune’s Top 25 global) 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 is also proud to be an equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer.

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 influencing skills, systemic vision, and strategic thinking, capable of connecting technology and business, promoting consistent architectural decisions, and accelerating the organization's technological evolution.

Daily Responsibilities

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

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

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

  • Conduct Architecture Reviews, Design Reviews, and Technical Assessments for key initiatives;

  • Support technical leaders 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 a technical reference in critical incidents involving architectural decisions;

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

Key Deliverables

  • Definition and evolution of product reference architecture;

  • Architectural roadmap aligned with company strategies;

  • Corporate development, integration, and architecture standards;

  • Evolution of 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 leaders, architects, and executives;

  • Excellent technical and executive communication;

  • Strategic vision of corporate 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-Driven 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).

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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 by expanding opportunities for people and businesses, in Brazil we are more than 4,000 people working in diverse teams and specialties. Here, every 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 where people can balance their careers with their personal commitments and interests, valuing well-being.

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

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