Architect

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**What We'll Bring**:
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**What You'll Bring**:
**Dynamics of the Role**:
Architect is a key member of the Standards & Innovation team, works along with the Platform Engineering teams, technical solutions and business teams to provide Architectural insights. Responsible for end to end ownership of Architecture, Impact Analysis and Resolution at various stages of the Platform development life cycle.

How You’ll Contribute:

- Design Architecture for the system/platform by understanding the current ecosystem if any, and the solution that need to be built
- Own the technology stack and the technology roadmap across framework and products
- Define technology strategy
- Provide research inputs on new technology, drive Hackathons and POCs and share reference implementations for the Engineering teams
- Contribute to technology blogs, white papers and articles
- Design, Plan and conduct technical training programs.
- Design review for framework, product/platform and implementation level design changes
- Collaborate with the developers, business analysts and development managers in order to determine the software's technical direction, systems architecture, system design and implementation plan
- and provide the direction to the team
- Acts as advisor or coach to the team and mentor Tech Leads and Developers
- Able to provide Just In time Solutions, troubleshoot the blockers and challenges faced by the teams
- Able to distinguish self in the Architecture Community by providing Leadership insights and being able to stand out.
- Ability to choose suitable Hardware and performance tuning mechanisms to the software
- Ability to understand the nuances of different technologies, and be able to determine the usage of technology for different pieces of the Architecture framework.

**What You’ll Bring**:

- 12-15 yrs’ experience in software development.
- Should have prior experience on working as an architect for a product/platform or business unit
- Java, J2EE, Web Services, Spring, strong micro services architecture background
- Hands on experience in Cloud Native development and experience in building solutions/platforms on any cloud provider - AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Hand on experience in designing, building and deploying REST,GRPC, GraphQL & CI CD pipelines
- Strong in architecture design patterns, experience with secure interoperability standards and methods, architecture tools and processes.
- Database design, SQL, NOSQL, Query Optimisation.
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
- Ability to create proof of concepts of new technologies and be able to talk through the pros and cons.

**Who We Are**

At TransUnion, we are dedicated to finding ways information can be used to help people make better and smarter decisions. As a trusted provider of global information solutions, 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. Because when people have access to more complete and multidimensional information, they can make more informed decisions and achieve great things.

Every day TransUnion offers our employees the tools and resources they need to find ways information can be used in diverse ways. Whether it is helping businesses better manage risk, providing better insights so a consumer can qualify for his first mortgage or working with law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer, we are improving the quality of life for individuals, families, communities and local economies around the world.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

**Primary Location**:Chennai

**Impact You'll Make**:
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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

Architect, Applications Programming