Software Engineer - Senior Manager

As the Senior Manager of Software Engineering within the AI Advisor Platform organization, you will provide technology leadership for the next generation of Equifax AI capabilities. You will shape long-term architecture strategy, lead modernization of a mission-critical platform, and guide engineering excellence across large, complex initiatives.

You will collaborate closely with technology executives, product leaders, and engineering teams to deliver real-time AI inferencing and decisioning capabilities that enhance product effectiveness, improve business agility, strengthen resiliency, and reduce cost of ownership. Your leadership will play a pivotal role in defining the future direction of AI & Data Platform Engineering.

• Lead architectural strategy and design for large-scale, enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services and programs.

• Define and evolve service interactions, dependency models, and architecture policies to ensure scalability, security, resiliency, and regulatory compliance.

• Partner with business and product leaders to architect services that enable new products and decisioning capabilities.

• Guide modernization of existing systems and influence long-range technology planning.

• Own and improve the end-to-end customer and developer experience across a portfolio of services and applications.

• Simplify and optimize architecture strategies to balance performance, cost efficiency, and business value.

• Use sound judgment to make trade-offs among competing priorities, risks, and technical constraints.

• Drive organization-wide initiatives that elevate engineering craftsmanship, operational excellence, and architectural standards.

• Represent the organization through speaking engagements, technical publications, and contributions to the broader technology community.

• Participate in highest-level architecture reviews and provide guidance on complex, enterprise-wide technical challenges.

• Consult across teams and organizational boundaries to identify synergies, reduce duplication, and eliminate operational silos.

• Mentor engineers and architects at all levels, fostering a strong technical leadership pipeline.

• Promote knowledge sharing within guilds, programs, and communities of practice.

• Lead technical interviews, help raise the engineering performance bar, and contribute to strategic hiring decisions.

• Provide objective, impact-based promotion recommendations.

• Champion behaviors that reinforce organizational values and build a high-performance engineering culture.

• Proven software engineering leadership experience, including leading large-scale, distributed systems or high-volume transaction platforms.

• Proven track record modernizing legacy systems and guiding long-range technology strategies across complex organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple engineering teams and drive alignment across product, architecture, and operations.

• Deep experience with cloud, data platforms, real-time processing, and enterprise-grade resiliency, security, and compliance requirements.

• Strong understanding of service interactions, dependency management, and high-throughput system design.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing executives, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Experience with high-volume, low-latency platforms processing mission-critical transactions.

• Background working in environments involving business rules engines, analytic model integration, or real-time decisioning workflows.

• Familiarity with streaming technologies and complex event processing.

• Demonstrated expertise in architectural governance, engineering best practices, and organization-wide technical initiatives.

• Prior leadership experience within AI, data, or decisioning platform domains.