Staff Platform Architect, Data & AI (Remote)
Experian
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Jul 24, 2026
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Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor architecture role focused on evolving and extending enterprise-scale data and AI/ML platforms. Day-to-day work spans improving existing batch, analytics, and MLOps infrastructure; designing semantic and ontology layers with governance tooling; and building data-access patterns for AI agents, BI tools, and client-facing products. Suited to engineers with deep MLOps and data platform experience who are comfortable shaping cross-team technical strategy and mentoring others.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 70 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 15–100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is fully remote (#LI-Remote) with no specific metro listed; no CBSA is assigned.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role's primary work is designing enterprise data and AI/ML platform architecture (data foundations, semantic/ontology layers, federated catalogs, MLOps infrastructure), which maps most closely to 15-1243 Database Architects. However, the heavy software-engineering and platform-building emphasis (greenfield design, prototyping, agent-driven APIs) makes 15-1252 Software Developers a credible alternative.
The JD states 'Bachelor's Degree or higher in science, technology, engineering or related field' with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
AWS is listed as 'preferred' within the qualifications block ('AWS preferred'), so it is treated as a hard gate with alternatives for other major cloud providers.
The posting references a compensation range but does not actually include the numeric figures in the text provided ('The base pay range for this position is listed above' — the range itself was not included in the job description supplied).
The seniority assessment of Staff is supported by the title ('Staff Platform Architect'), the cross-team architectural influence scope, and the expectation of shaping technology strategy across multiple platforms and departments — not merely by the 10+ years experience requirement alone.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data governance, federated catalog architecture.
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