Principal Architect

Job Description

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realize their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Job Description

We are building a shared Agentic AI Platorm that enables teams across the enterprise to design, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and workflows safely, consistently, and at scale.

This role is for a builder–architect, someone with strong software and systems foundations who can operate hands-on while also shaping architectural direction across teams. You will design and build core agentic AI platform capabilities while actively ensuring teams adopt shared primitives rather than creating fragmented, one-off solutions.

The role combines hands-on engineering, platorm architecture, and cross-enterprise influence, with a strong emphasis on reuse, cohesion, and long-term sustainability.

You will be #LI-hybrid based in Hyderabad and reporting to Director Engineering

What you’ll do here:

• Design and build foundational platform capabilities for agentic AI systems, including orchestration, lifecycle management, memory patterns, runtime policy and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Establish agent discovery, registration, and reuse mechanisms (e.g., registries, marketplaces, protocol integration) as shared platform capabilities.
• You will define and evolve durable architectural patterns, reference architectures, and golden paths for multi-agent coordination, bounded autonomy, failure handling, and system evolution.
• Design secure-by-default architectures that embed governance, policy enforcement, auditability, and access control into agentic systems and AI workflows.
• You will build reusable AI workflow primitives that teams can adopt consistently across the enterprise.
• Partner with enterprise teams (e.g., Cloud, Security, ITSM etc.) to integrate AI workflows into existing enterprise systems and platforms.
• Maintain a bird’s-eye view of Agentic AI and AI Workflow initiatives across the enterprise, identifying the opportunities to reduce fragmentation and promote convergence.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through hands-on contribution, design leadership, and clear reasoning.

Qualifications

Must have skills:

• 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating complex, cloud-native software systems in production environments, with depth in platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong first-principles and systems thinking, with the ability to reason about tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, cost, and developer experience.
• Experience designing or operating systems that incorporate LLMs or AI models as core components, including managing model interaction, control flow, and failure modes.
• Proficiency in Python (and/or Java or Scala) for building backend services, frameworks, or SDKs.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including compute, networking, storage, and security primitives.
• Demonstrated experience owning and evolving shared platform architectures over time, including setting boundaries, managing tradeoffs, and adapting designs as scale and requirements change.
• Proven ability to drive architectural alignment across teams through technical influence, design reviews, reference architectures, and hands-on collaboration rather than formal authority.

Nice to have skills:

• Exposure to agent frameworks, multi-agent systems, or AI orchestration tools.
• Experience designing systems with explicit state management, lifecycle control, and correctness guarantees across asynchronous and long-running workflows.
• Experience working with orchestration systems, workflow engines, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and delegated access patterns, including OAuth 2.0 and related standards, as applied to service-to-service and user-mediated workflows.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, shared services, or reusable runtime frameworks.
• Staying hands-on with emerging AI capabilities and tools to build intuition that informs system and platform design decisions.

Who Thrives in This Role:

• You think beyond individual teams and care deeply about ecosystem health.
• You enjoy influencing architecture across organizational boundaries.
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and designing systems that must evolve.
• You value reuse, cohesion, and long-term sustainability over short-term speed.

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.

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