Director of Platform Architecture

Company Overview Experian is a global leader in data and analytics, committed to unlocking the power of data to transform lives and create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society. With over 25,000 employees across 30+ countries, we are investing in innovation and technology to shape a better tomorrow.

Role Overview As Director of Platform Architecture, you will lead the architectural strategy, design, and governance of our next-generation platform capabilities. These platforms serve as the foundation for hosting a diverse portfolio of products and services across many business lines. Reporting into our CTO you will ensure the platform is multi-tenant, highly scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise architecture direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture vision and multi‑year roadmap for Experian shared platforms.
• Define core platform capabilities (identity, data, API, eventing, observability, shared services) OLTP services.
• Ensure platform scalability to support multiple business domains and customer segments.
• Partner with all stakeholders to prioritise platform features and integration patterns.
• Shape platform resilience aligned to Experian Tiering Framework, including RTO/RPO and HA design.
• Drive reusable patterns and enforce platform guardrails across product teams.
• Guide architectural governance, design reviews, reference architectures, and standards.
• Collaborate with Cloud COE, Security, and Enterprise Architecture to align platform foundations with enterprise policies.
• Lead adoption of cloud-native patterns.
• Champion developer experience improvements, self-service tooling, and automation-driven workflows.
• Mentor architects and engineers.
• Drive continuous optimisation of performance, cost, and operational efficiency.
• Must have hands-on experience in programming, infrastructure provisioning and DevOps Pipeline.

Department: Technology
Function: Information Technology
Experience Level: Not Applicable