Senior Director, Platform Architecture - Data Analytics Capabilities

TransUnion • Boca Raton, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation we’re consistently exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. This environment gives our people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius. Come be a part of our team – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology. This Senior Director is responsible for collectively building out 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 deep 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. You 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.

Requirements

• Experience and expertise in modern data and analytics technologies and capabilities that will enable TransUnion to modernize our platforms and products.
• Deep experience in architecting, designing, and developing the key analytics capabilities powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
• Experience in transforming and leading high talent organizations that delivery critical business value through technology platform-based approach.
• 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 Executives, 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.
• 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.
• Lead teams of technology leaders, managers, and advanced engineers for building critical platform capabilities and enabling critical business applications by leveraging these capabilities.
• 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 15+ years minimum equivalent experience in a strong technical IT environment

Nice To Haves

• 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 value propositions/business cases and communicating within global delivery organizations & with senior executives (VP, SVP).
• Deep 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.

Responsibilities

• Building out our solutions enablement platform organization
• Delivering a strategic vision at-scale to enable our customers to drive their business forward through moments that matter
• Leading enablement via the platform built with modern engineering with seamless integration, full automation, and exceptional self-service implementation
• Partnering with stakeholders across Vertical Markets, Global Solutions, Global Data and Analytics, Global Technology, and Global Operations to deliver innovative customer facing solutions
• Partnering with our product management teams, and partner with them extensively to build customer focused strategies, roadmap, and implement these to make those a reality
• Leading teams of technology leaders, managers, and advanced engineers for building critical platform capabilities and enabling critical business applications by leveraging these capabilities
• As needed manage server administration in cloud and implementation of security controls defined by cyber security team at TU.

Benefits

• TransUnion provides flexible benefits including 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, and access to TransUnion’s Employee Resource Groups.
• Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select health and welfare plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director