Technical Lead

What We'll Bring:

At TransUnion, we are dedicated to finding ways information can be used to help people make better and smarter decisions. Our mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information.

What You'll Bring:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields.
• 10+ years of experience in IT technical lead roles in global organizations.
• Strong background in development, quality assurance, management, and control processes.
• Expert application knowledge in the financial sector is a must-have.
• Experience in leveraging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of aligning IT strategies with business objectives.
• Technical expertise in development and QA of full technology stack, especially back-end.
• Understanding of Cloud and Data technologies is a definite asset.
• Strong people leadership in a technical capacity.
• Highly analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work during off regular office hours for global collaboration and production support.

Impact You'll Make:

This role leads the technology work for product and platform solutions using agile/scrum or traditional/hybrid SDLC methodology. It involves providing direction for development and QA teams to ensure technical deliverables meet quality standards, aiming for 99.99% uptime.

Work closely with product managers and owners to understand requirements and deliver efficient solutions. Success requires strong technical expertise, ability to align with architecture & design, and develop quality solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical leadership to scrum and project teams.
• Liaise with stakeholders to address technical debt efficiently.
• Provide high level estimates on delivery work effort.
• Ensure adherence to coding and testing standards by the development team.
• Guide QA team on automation, testing, control, and reporting processes.
• Act as an escalation point for teams on functional, technical, quality, and timeline challenges.
• Manage the technical aspect of releases end to end.
• Ensure test and production environments are aligned and ready for critical releases.
• Engage in daily huddles and regular leadership meetings.
• Establish production support cadence and rectify issues.
• Consider risk appetite and culture in day-to-day activities.
• Research and recommend new technologies, processes, and tools.
• Ensure agile best practices are applied to technical development and QA work.

This is a hybrid position requiring in-person work at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.