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

Lead end to end architectural design and governance of Microsoft .NET based systems, ensuring scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Define cloud native and hybrid architectures on Microsoft Azure. Implement these architectures, including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management, and data platforms. Ensure high availability, resiliency, and cost efficiency in these implementations.
Drive application modernization initiatives, including decomposition of legacy systems, migration to cloud native architectures, and adoption of containerization and serverless paradigms.
Create and evolve enterprise grade applications, APIs, and integration layers that operate consistently across multiple platforms, channels, and devices, ensuring interoperability and extensibility.
Define and oversee implementation of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment standardization, and release governance using Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling.
Provide architectural oversight through design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance forums, ensuring alignment with defined standards and long term system sustainability.
Develop and enforce source control strategies, including branching models, code check in policies, and traceability standards across distributed teams.
Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering architectural thinking, design rigor, and adherence to engineering excellence principles across the organization.
Delegate architectural tasks and guide execution while maintaining accountability for overall system integrity and quality.
Participate in incident management processes, including on call escalation, root cause analysis, and systemic remediation planning.
Promote a DevOps culture by integrating development and operations practices, enabling continuous delivery, automation, and shared ownership of production systems.
You will report to the Director of Engineering

Qualifications

Bachelor's in computers or Master preferred.
You need to have 13+ years of professional Microsoft development and architectural experience
4+ years of Azure cloud experience
Extensive experience with C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core
This is an Individual Contributor role
Extensive experience with Azure Cloud Solutions (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), Azure Entra, App Services, Azure Functions, APIM, Azure SQL.
Experience with Microsoft AI & ML including hands on experience with Azure AI Foundry
Extensive experience with MS SQL Server, T-SQL, Relational Database Design
Extensive experience with modern UI frameworks (Angular / Vue / React / Blazor / Web Assembly)
Experience with GenAI
Experience with SSIS, ETL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric.
Expert knowledge of common Architectural Patterns and Cloud Native development
Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
Experience with Entity Framework or other ORM
Experience defining and governing an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC): standards for spec-driven development, agent instruction files and context (e.g. AGENTS.md / Copilot instructions), MCP server usage, and guardrails for secure and responsible AI use across teams.
Experience architecting GenAI-enabled features on Azure: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, RAG patterns, prompt and agent orchestration (Semantic Kernel or equivalent), with attention to cost, latency, grounding, and data privacy.
Experience with LLM evaluation and observability: prompt versioning, eval datasets, hallucination and regression testing, and tracing of model calls in production.
Ability to measure and report the impact of AI tooling on delivery velocity, quality, and cost, and to drive adoption through enablement and mentoring.

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 also proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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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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