Sr. Consultant - Data Engineering

TransUnion; Chennai; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TransUnion is seeking a Sr Consultant, Data Integration to design, build, and maintain data pipelines and analytics platforms that enable fraud detection and risk analytics. This remote role collaborates with data scientists, engineers, and product teams worldwide.

You will partner with Data Scientists to operationalize models, develop ETL/ELT workflows, publish dashboards, ensure data quality and governance, and support near real-time decisioning in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
• 2 years of data engineering or large-scale data platform experience.
• Experience with GCP and dashboards in visualization tools.
• Strong SQL and Python or Scala proficiency.
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and Spark.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering to design, deploy, and maintain data pipelines and analytics platforms for fraud detection.
• Operationalize fraud models with data scientists in production environments.
• Build ETL/ELT workflows and publish dashboards for alerts and risk analytics.
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and monitoring across data ecosystems.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, cybersecurity, and fraud teams on scalable solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

GCP

SQL

Python/Scala

Spark/PySpark

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data warehousing

CI/CD

Distributed data processing

Dashboarding

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science / IS / Software Engineering / Data Engineering

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice Team Overview

At TransUnion, we are committed to using information for good. We foster an environment where innovation, professional growth, and collaboration drive meaningful outcomes for our customers and communities. As part of our Fraud Prevention organization, you will work with talented data scientists, engineers, product leaders, and fraud experts to build and scale data platforms that support advanced fraud analytics, machine learning, and real-time decisioning solutions. You will work alongside data scientists, fraud strategists, software engineers, and product leaders to develop high-performance data environments that power some of the industry's leading fraud prevention capabilities. This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities Impact You'll Make

As a Data Engineer supporting Fraud Solutions, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust data pipelines, data products, and analytical platforms that enable fraud detection, monitoring, and investigation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the global technical development, deployment, and maintenance of Cyber Defense data ecosystem, using the latest data programming languages and visualization tools.
• This includes optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets to enhance anomaly detection tools.
• Design, build, and optimize scalable batch and real-time data pipelines supporting fraud detection and risk analytics.
• Partner with Data Scientists to operationalize fraud models and analytical solutions in production environments.
• Build and manage ETL/ELT workflows for ingestion and transformation of structured and unstructured data.
• Design, develop and publish charts and dashboards for alerts on potential fraud and regulatory violations.
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and monitoring across fraud data ecosystems.
• Develop reusable frameworks and automation tools that accelerate fraud analytics and model deployment.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, cybersecurity, and fraud teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support streaming architectures that enable near real-time fraud detection and decisioning.
• Optimize platform performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex data and pipeline issues while ensuring high availability and operational excellence.
• Document architecture, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
• Design and implement solutions to automate department tools and technology to drive more efficiency and productivity.

Required Knowledge And Experiences

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 2 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or large-scale data platform development.
• Demonstrated expertise in performing data engineering work within Google Cloud ecosystem (GCP), designing and developing dashboards in visualization tools.
• Good understanding of data warehousing concepts and technologies
• Strong SQL expertise and advanced proficiency in Python or Scala.
• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark/PySpark.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, dimensional modeling, and advanced database concepts.
• Experience implementing data quality controls, reconciliation processes, and monitoring frameworks.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, and DevOps principles.
• Understanding of the business intelligence development life cycle including the ability to lead collaboration discussions to gather the needs for desired outcomes for the BI solutions being built.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

TransUnion Overview:

At TransUnion, we encourage and are committed to creating a real, positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good, which empowers our people to grow, innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver's seat of their professional development- while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; that's why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence. Be a part of our Workforce for Good - you'll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.

TransUnion Job Title Sr Consultant, Data Integration

View TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice

TransUnion is a global information and insights company with over 12,000 associates operating in more than 30 countries. We make trust possible by ensuring each person is reliably represented in the marketplace. We do this with a Tru™ picture of each person: an actionable view of consumers, stewarded with care. Through our acquisitions and technology investments we have developed innovative solutions that extend beyond our strong foundation in core credit into areas such as marketing, fraud, risk and advanced analytics. As a result, consumers and businesses can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good® - and it leads to economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for millions of people around the world.