USA remote
Vice President, Platform Engineering
About this role
Experian Software Solutions (ESS) , is the global product and engineering function delivering world-class software solutions and data through the Ascend Platform. Ascend brings together data, analytics, AI, decisioning, and fraud capabilities to help our clients accelerate digital transformation, improve risk management, detect and prevent fraud, and make faster, more informed customer and business decisions. The Vice President, Platform Engineering is responsible for leading technology for Identity, Access & SSO, Portal & Design System, Observability, Metrics & Monitoring, and Billing & Metering.
This executive oversees the development and evolution of shared platform architecture and horizontal services that Product Engineering and AI & Agentic Platform build on top of, ensuring platform capabilities are built once and consumed as a service across the business. Reporting to the CTO, this VP will lead a global team of 100+ employees and will work across Experian's global business units to embed scalable, secure platform capabilities that accelerate product innovation, improve operational efficiency, and reduce duplicated engineering effort.
The VP serves as the senior technology voice for shared platform capability, shaping enterprise platform strategy, and delivering measurable outcomes across one of the world's leading data and technology companies. Develop and execute the technology strategy for Identity, Access & SSO, Portal & Design System, Observability, Metrics & Monitoring, and Billing & Metering, scaling platform adoption globally through cloud migration, workload modernization, and platform standardization to enable growth, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
Lead the identity and access strategy underpinning ESS Technology's customer-facing Identity Management capability, driving the development and governance of SSO, RBAC, and authentication infrastructure across products and platforms. Partner with product, engineering, and regional leaders to prioritize technology investments and drive innovation, applying disciplined engineering standards to ensure platform investments are aligned to strategic business outcomes and deliver measurable ROI.
Lead enterprise platform modernization initiatives, evolving legacy environments into secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures that support long-term business growth, resilience, and cost optimization. Establish enterprise platform engineering standards, design system and portal strategy, and developer-facing tooling that accelerate engineering productivity and enable scalable, reusable technology capabilities across the business.