Technical & Solution Architect

Job description

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds,  and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, and driven software engineers and technical/solution architects with hands-on development and cross-system design skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic architect and developer who is passionate about technology, translating business needs into high-quality technical vision, and hands-on execution. What you’ll do • Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud-native, distributed microservices-based architectures across complex, integrated systems. • Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC and robust end-to-end architectural design. • Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business, and sales partners. • Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed. • Build and technically lead strong technical solutions that scale. • Guide and influence teams with cross-functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers, and scrum masters. • Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure. • Leverage strong experience in full-stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS. • Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior software, quality, and reliability engineers. • Lead with a data/metrics-driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions. • Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs. • Define, maintain, and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering, and architecture teams. • Collaborate with architects, SRE leads, and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices. • Drive and author up-to-date technical documentation including system design specifications, detailed technical diagrams (e.g., architecture, sequence, data flows), and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). • Support and guide Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity from a technical perspective. • Responsible for cross-system implementation architecture decision-making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions. • Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience-appropriate. What experience you need • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. • 7&#43; years of software engineering and system architecture experience. • 7&#43; years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, Angular (18 or newer), Angular Material, SpringBoot, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS. • 7&#43; years working with PostgreSQL or other relational databases. • 7&#43; years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure. • 7&#43; years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions. • 7&#43; years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes. • 7&#43; years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understanding infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs. • AI Assisted Development: Strong experience leveraging modern AI developer tooling (e.g., Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate coding, testing, and system prototyping. • AI Application Engineering: Hands-on experience designing or developing AI-powered application features, integrating Generative AI/LLM APIs, or working with orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and vector databases. What could set you apart • Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision. • Strong communication and presentation skills. • Strong leadership qualities and cross-system architectural vision. • Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts. • Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps. • Experience aligning technical architecture with yearly as well as product/project budgets. • Working in a highly regulated environment. • Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others. • UI development (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap). • Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA, and Microservices. • Source code control management systems (e.g., SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle. • <p