Technical Manager, Java Development

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What We'll Bring:

This role is responsible for creating a strong team supporting the build out of our solutions enablement platform organization and delivering a strategic vision at-scale to enable our customers to drive their business forward through moments that matter. This leader will have a strong understanding of our business domain, our data & analytics capabilities, and our technology capabilities to deliver value via a platform as a service approach. This leader will support leading this enablement via the platform built with modern engineering with seamless integration, full automation, and exceptional self-service implementation. She/he will partner with stakeholders across Vertical Markets, Global Solutions, Global Data and Analytics, Global Technology, and Global Operations to deliver innovative customer facing solutions. This leader will passionately partner with our product management teams, and partner with them extensively to build customer focused strategies, roadmap, and implement these to make those a reality.

Specific expectations for the role include:
• Firm understanding of the global macro-technology trends, the evolution and applicability of these trends as they apply to the business domain that TransUnion operates in.
• Visionary in understanding the anticipating the intersection of technology advancements, customer preferences, and business outcomes.
• Ability to start with the business strategy to understand the why and the what and develop an engineering approach to translate that into the how that builds extensible frameworks and architectures that tackle a range of future opportunities that help our customers do things quicker, easier, cheaper, and through a self-service enabled approach.
• Partner with solution owners, market owners, and product owners to help us balance the need for moving quickly to tackle immediate client opportunities with the objective of creating a stable, scalable platform and technology capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate with Business managers and leaders, Architecture, Delivery and Product teams to define & execute on the architectural strategy for TransUnion.
• Knowledge & experience in designing & deploying cloud native applications in both private & public cloud hosting environments.
• Obsess over creating amazingly intuitive customer experiences using Human Centered Design techniques.
• Like being on the cutting edge of new technology and can determine which innovations are transformational in achieving delightful customer experiences.
• Can confidently communicate your strategy across large organizations to influence stakeholders to align behind the objectives
• Strong leadership and team-building skills, including the ability to lead architecture discussions with global teams operating in an Agile / Scrum delivery model.
• Ability to drive global organizational change, balance business requirements with IT initiatives, provide technical leadership, & manage execution on critical initiatives.
• Ability to facilitate development of an architectural vision with a compelling narrative and financial analysis that supports and aligns to the business and technology strategy.
• Lead teams of technology leaders, managers, and advanced engineers for building critical platform capabilities and enabling critical business applications by leveraging these capabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills with global & diverse audiences - Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• As needed manage server administration in cloud and implementation of security controls defined by cyber security team at TU.
• BS or MS in Computer Science with 10+ years minimum equivalent experience in a strong technical IT environment.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong experience in leading globally distributed teams and influencing globally distributed stakeholders. • Exceptional leadership skills and an ability to develop and motivate a large team of engineers. • Ability to build a strong cohesive team value and communicate within global delivery organizations & with senior leaders (Directors & Sr Directors). • Solid product development expertise and understanding of enterprise technologies, platforms, APIs, and microservices. • Strong analytical abilities to organize and solve for multivariate problems. • Above all, we want our engineering team to be energized by your leadership and motivated by how you help them think through challenging problems and grow their skills & knowledge base. Impact you’ll make: • Be an instrumental part of the Product engineering organization & lead the modernization of TransUnion’s product delivery with use of public cloud platforms, DevSecOps operating models, & new enabling technologies. • Deliver business value through the benefits of moving applications and platforms to a scalable, modern architecture that leverages public cloud. • Enable market & solution areas through proactive dialogue on capability needs & mapping those needs to existing or new architectural patterns & standards. • Occasional travel may be required.

Impact You'll Make:

NA

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Manager I, Software Development