Directors, Software Engineering
About The Position
Provide strategic and technical leadership for multiple cross functional, geographically distributed engineering teams responsible for the development, modernization, and operation of enterprise scale software platforms across public and private cloud environments. Drives the migration of complex legacy on premises systems to secure, cloud native, micro services based architectures, overseeing the design and governance of scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs. Plays a key role in enterprise architectural decision making, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product roadmaps, and organizational technology standards. Responsibilities include establishing and enforcing engineering best practices across DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, security, and reusable platform components, while ensuring predictable delivery, operational excellence, and continuous lifecycle improvement. Manage and develop senior engineering leaders and architects by setting strategic goals, conducting performance assessments, mentoring talent, and building high performing global teams across onshore, offshore, and vendor models. Technical Environment: building low latency, high throughput, scalable, fault-tolerant systems; containerizing and running productions systems in public cloud; software design experience with APIs, Unix, Linux, Informix, PostgreSQL, Python, Web Services in C and C++, Java, SOAP, JSON, Google Protocol Buffer, Shell Scripting, GIT, Mercurial, Artifactory, Maven, UML, Match Algorithm design; building credit software applications using online platforms; streaming platforms (Kafka); Lean DevOps; algorithms, data structures.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or any Engineering field, or a related field plus 2 years of experience as a Lead Engineer / Developer or in software architecture / design required.
- Proven track record for building great teams that are focused on the marathon of continuous delivery and innovation.
- Building low latency, high throughput, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
- Containerizing and running productions systems in public cloud.
- Software design experience with APIs, Unix, Linux, Informix, PostgreSQL, Python, Web Services in C and C++, Java, SOAP, JSON, Google Protocol Buffer, Shell Scripting, GIT, Mercurial, Artifactory, Maven, UML, Match Algorithm design.
- Building credit software applications using online platforms.
- Streaming platforms (Kafka).
- Lean DevOps.
- Algorithms, data structures.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership for multiple cross functional, geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Drive the migration of complex legacy on premises systems to secure, cloud native, micro services based architectures.
- Oversee the design and governance of scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs.
- Play a key role in enterprise architectural decision making, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product roadmaps, and organizational technology standards.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, security, and reusable platform components.
- Ensure predictable delivery, operational excellence, and continuous lifecycle improvement.
- Manage and develop senior engineering leaders and architects by setting strategic goals, conducting performance assessments, mentoring talent, and building high performing global teams across onshore, offshore, and vendor models.
Benefits
- flexible time off for exempt associates
- paid time off for non-exempt associates
- up to 12 paid holidays per year
- health benefits (including medical, dental, and vision plan options and health spending accounts)
- mental health support
- disability benefits
- up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- adoption assistance
- fertility planning coverage
- legal benefits
- long-term care insurance
- commuter benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- charity gift matching
- employee stock purchase plan
- 401(k) retirement savings with employer match
- access to TransUnion’s Employee Resource Groups
- Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select health and welfare plans.
- company-paid basic life and AD&D
- optional voluntary life and AD&D for you and your family
- short- and long-term disability
- legal plan
- pet insurance
- travel accident coverage
- Dependent Care FSA for possibility of an employer match
- complimentary Care@Work membership
- thoughtful, gradual return
- financial wellness resources
- career coaching
- employee discounts
- paid volunteer time off
- corporate volunteer events
- 24/7 support including professional therapy, coaching, and emotional well‑being programs alongside guided meditation and resources that support physical, mental, social, and financial wellness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
