Sr. Staff Architect at Experian in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Experian is seeking a Sr. Staff Architect to join our CIS Product Development team. This is a great opportunity for someone who specializes in building large-scale, cloud-based platforms to access timely, accurate and relevant data. An ideal candidate will have built scalable platforms that can easily accommodate and integrate different data sources and provide comprehensive data capabilities to all Experian products and delivery channels.

About us, but we'll be brief

Experian is the world's leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. We are thrilled to share that FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for . In addition, for the last five years we've been named in the 100 "World's Most Innovative Companies" by Forbes Magazine . Experian Consumer Information Services is redefining the way our clients do business within all aspects of the customer credit lifecycle. Fueled by best-in-class data and innovative technology we help businesses make smarter decisions, identify consumers, make decisions on loans, market to prospects and collect.

What you'll be doing

As a Sr. Staff Architect, you must be a software development expert with extensive and well-rounded background in developing large-scaled software systems and bigdata analytics solutions (commercial, open source, in-house). In this role, you will be critical to the transformation to modernize our legacy platform and to move a modern Cloud Native Java Application with improved availability, simplified support, improved data management and enhanced release consistency delivering improved time to market for key new products, better security, greater customization and flexibility. Main responsibilities for this position include:

• Designs, Analyzes, and develops software applications that are highly distributed and scalable
• Monitors and assesses the health and performance of the software applications and databases
• Assists in building out the DevOps strategy for hosting and managing our SDP microservice and connector infrastructure in the cloud
• Works on cloud-based and distributed computing platforms in big data space where scale and complexity are considered
• Participates in agile software development for enterprise-level systems including component design and implementation
• Applies deep understanding of application and enterprise software design for implementation of data services and middleware.

What your background looks like

• BS in Computer Science or related fields; MS preferred
• 8+ years of professional development experience in Linux-based and cloud-based distributed systems
• Proficient with Java, Python, Spark, Scala and scripting languages
• Experience with MySQL (RDBMS) and database design
• Systems integration experience, including design and development of APIs, Adapters, and Connectors and Integration with Hadoop/HDFS, Real-Time Systems, Data Warehouses, and Analytics solutions.
• Proficient with Enterprise Security, Agile and Change management standards
• Good understanding of distributed software applications including system integration, testing, and troubleshooting
• Experience in monitoring the health of distributed systems and strategy for error detection and recovery
• Systems integration experience, including design and development of APIs, Real-Time Systems, and MicroServices

Perks

• During this pandemic, all Experian employees are working remotely. Once it's safe to do so, we'll slowly return to our offices however we are in no rush to do this. The safety of our employees is of utmost importance.
• Four weeks of vacation to start, five sick days and two volunteer days (plus eleven paid holidays)
• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits package, with a bonus target of 20%

EOE including Disability/Veteran