Strategic Solutions Designer

We are seeking a highly experienced Solutions Architect to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Your primary focus will be on developing strategic partnerships with global clients, working closely with their senior solution architects and product managers to drive business growth through effective agile development environments.

You will also be involved in formulating and executing strategies to exceed revenue objectives, including pricing strategies based on customer needs. Additionally, you will participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, interface with customer key stakeholders, and contribute to building business cases and advocates for investment as needed.

Impact You'll Make:

• Bachelor's (B.S) degree in Computer Science or related field, Master's (M.S) or MBA a plus
• Minimum 10+ years of system design/implementation/consulting experience with carriers and Fortune-500 enterprise supporting various network technologies for distributed real-time applications.
• Minimum 5+ years of solutions consulting/product management/building products and services with high availability and scalability in carrier and enterprise domain with hands-on software development experience using object-oriented design and programming.
• Extensive experience with building large scale, highly available, robust distributed systems.
• Recent experience working within widely adopted cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ability to think strategically and effectively communicate needs, priorities and a global vision in a simple, structured manner.
• Ability to influence, communicate, and manage cross-functionally and across all levels (Including C-Levels).
• Proven track record to create and manage strategic global vendor partnerships to accelerate product/services adoption.
• Solid understanding of RESTful systems and principles of good API design. Should have proven hands-on experience in designing, building and deploying production grade, highly scalable solutions based on cloud-native micro-services architecture.
• Provide customers with best practices and advise as it relates to Data Science workloads (AI/ML) including enhancing Transunion's data models (supervised and un-supervised labeling) built by internal data science teams who build, deploy ML pipelines using industry tool chain.
• Participation and experience in industry standards organizations e.g. IETF/ATIS/3GPP/ITU-T would be a huge plus.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go and commonly used frameworks like Spring boot, Spring batch, Spring Data
• Experience with RDBMS, and NoSQL DB (MongoDB/Cassandra preferred)
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures (document form, JSON/YAML), problem solving, algorithm design and analysis
• Understanding of cryptography, encryption, and PKI Digital Certificate Management (X.509)
• Good familiarity with open-source development. Any hands-on experience with integrating open-source components into projects would be an advantage.

Requirements:

1. Strong Technical Skills: A solid foundation in computer science, software engineering, and data structures.
2. Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
3. Programming Languages: Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go.
4. API Design: Solid understanding of RESTful systems and principles of good API design.
5. Open-Source Development: Good familiarity with open-source development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry Standards Organizations: Participation and experience in industry standards organizations e.g. IETF/ATIS/3GPP/ITU-T.
• Mobile Application Development/Support: Experience with mobile application development and support.
• Protocols: Familiarity with protocols such as SIP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, STIR/SHAKEN, OAUTH2.