Sr. Consultant, Technical Product Manager - International Markets

TransUnion; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TransUnion is seeking a Senior Consultant, Product Management to lead data platform initiatives across multiple teams. You will own product roadmaps, define requirements, and partner with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions.

Hybrid role with regular virtual work and in-person collaboration at a TU office, at least two days per week. The position emphasizes data governance, KPI tracking, and global collaboration across geographies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as Technical Product Manager or equivalent leadership role.
• 5+ years delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and data products.
• Experience defining data platform strategy, roadmaps, KPIs, and lifecycle.
• Proven ability to influence executive leadership and multiple teams.
• Experience with real-time and batch processing architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product roadmap for enterprise data platforms.
• Drive adoption, measure KPIs, and ensure data quality and availability.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, Compliance, and Data Governance teams.
• Lead cross-functional delivery across multiple data and technology orgs.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Cross-functional

Agile delivery

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

TransUnion’s Job Applicant Privacy Notice Team Overview

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice Team Overview The Product TPM team operates at the intersection of business, technology, and delivery, enabling the successful development and rollout of scalable, customer-centric solutions. At the Consultant (P03) level, the team is composed of Technical Product Managers who own feature-level delivery while collaborating closely with engineering, design, and business stakeholders. The team functions within an Agile framework, ensuring continuous delivery of high-quality product increments through iterative development, sprint cycles, and regular feedback loops. Each TPM is responsible for managing specific product modules or features, contributing to the broader product roadmap while aligning execution with organizational goals and customer needs. 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.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

1. Product Ownership

   • Own and manage assigned product features or modules from concept to delivery
   • Define detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintain the product backlog
   • Prioritize deliverables based on business value, customer impact, and feasibility

2. Product Strategy & Roadmap Support

   • Contribute to product roadmap planning and execution
   • Align feature development with overall product vision and business objectives
   • Incorporate stakeholder input, user feedback, and analytics insights

3. Technical Collaboration

   • Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications
   • Work closely with engineering teams on solution design and implementation
   • Assess technical trade-offs, dependencies, and constraints
   • Ensure adherence to scalability, security, and performance standards

4. Agile Delivery Execution

   • Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, stand-ups, retrospectives)
   • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of product increments
   • Support continuous improvement in development and delivery processes

5. Stakeholder Management

   • Collaborate with business, engineering, and UX/design teams
   • Act as the primary point of contact for owned features
   • Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes effectively

6. Data-Driven Decision Making

   • Define and track KPIs for product features
   • Use product analytics and user insights to drive improvements
   • Optimize product performance, usability, and adoption

7. Product Lifecycle Support

   • Support the full product lifecycle including requirement gathering, development, testing, and release
   • Assist in documentation, training, and user adoption initiatives
   • Ensure smooth rollout and continuous enhancement of features

Required Knowledge And Experiences

The Technical Platform Manager (TPM) is responsible for driving the strategy, roadmap, adoption, governance, and delivery of enterprise platform services that enable secure, scalable, and efficient software development and infrastructure operations across the organization. This role partners with platform service owners, engineering leaders, architecture, security, compliance, cloud engineering, and application development teams to define platform capabilities, establish operational excellence standards, drive platform adoption, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The TPM serves as a strategic leader who balances platform scalability, reliability, security, developer experience, and cost optimization while ensuring enterprise platform services continue to meet evolving business and technology needs. Platform domains may include Data Ingestion, Data Quality, ETL, Web Applications, Observability, Infrastructure Automation, PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management , Developer Tooling, and Internal Developer Platforms. 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. 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.

Data Platform Strategy & Roadmap Management

Define and manage the product roadmap for enterprise data acquisition, ingestion, correction, storage, and distribution platforms, including:

• Data Acquisition & Onboarding Services
• Data Ingestion Pipelines (Batch and Real-time)
• Data Quality & Validation Services
• Data Correction Platforms (Consumer, Commercial, Fraud, MFI)
• Enterprise Data Store (EDS)
• Data Publishing & Distribution Services
• CDC, Streaming, and Event-Driven Architecture
• Redis and Low-Latency Data Access Platforms
• Data APIs and Data-as-a-Service Capabilities

Establish product vision and strategy for enterprise data platforms aligned with business growth, regulatory requirements, and customer needs. Drive prioritisation of platform investments that improve data quality, scalability, timeliness, availability, and operational efficiency. Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Analytics, and Operations teams to define roadmap alignment, capability evolution, and technical strategy. Balance regulatory obligations, technical debt reduction, platform modernization, and business-driven feature delivery.

Data Product Adoption & Customer Success

Drive adoption of enterprise data platform capabilities across internal and external consumers. Develop deep understanding of data providers, operational users, analytics teams, product teams, and application consumers. Establish feedback loops with stakeholders to continuously improve data acquisition, correction, fulfilment, and data access experiences. Measure and report product adoption, service utilisation, customer satisfaction, data quality improvements, and business value realization. Champion self-service capabilities that enable data onboarding, monitoring, corrections, and operational management with minimal engineering intervention.

Data Governance & Operational Excellence

Define and maintain operational frameworks governing data ingestion, validation, correction, retention, distribution, and lifecycle management. Establish KPIs and success metrics across: Data Availability, Pipeline Throughput, Data Freshness, Data Accuracy, Data Completeness, Data Quality Scores, Operational SLA Compliance, Customer Adoption, Platform Reliability. Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, and Data Governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise policies and regulatory obligations. Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational resilience, platform scalability, automation, and reduction of manual intervention. Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for data quality, performance, and availability incidents.

Product Delivery & Program Leadership

Lead cross-functional delivery initiatives spanning multiple data and technology organizations. Own product planning activities including: Roadmaps, Business cases, Prioritization, Scope management, Release planning, Dependency management. Facilitate Agile execution, Program Increment planning, roadmap reviews, stakeholder governance forums, and executive reporting. Ensure successful delivery of data platform capabilities while balancing customer experience, operational excellence, security, and compliance requirements. Manage complex dependencies across ingestion, correction, storage, analytics, API, and fulfillment ecosystems. Cross-Functional Leadership Coordinate initiatives involving: Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Information Security, Regulatory & Compliance Teams, Data Governance, Analytics & Data Science, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering, Application Development Teams, Business Product Owners, Operations & Support Organizations. Build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities. Influence enterprise-wide decisions regarding data architecture, governance frameworks, platform standards, and operating models. Act as the primary product leader for enterprise data platform capabilities and strategic modernization initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, Platform Product Manager, or equivalent leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms, data products, ingestion services, or data management solutions.
• Experience defining and executing data platform strategy, roadmap development, adoption plans, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data ecosystems including: Data Acquisition, Data Ingestion, Data Quality Management, Data Correction Workflows, Master Data Management, Data Distribution, Data Governance.
• Experience working with both real-time and batch processing architectures.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data architecture patterns including: Event-driven architecture, Streaming platforms, Data pipelines, API-driven integrations, Data products.
• Experience managing products supporting multiple internal and external customers.
• Experience establishing and reporting product KPIs and operational metrics.
• Proven ability to influence executive leadership, engineering organizations, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, highly regulated, enterprise data initiatives.
• Strong ownership mindset with experience managing risks, dependencies, and commitments across multiple delivery teams.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Required Technical Skills

• Enterprise Data Platforms and Data Warehousing concepts. Data Ingestion Technologies including: Kafka, CDC Platforms, Streaming Solutions, ETL/ELT Frameworks, Event-driven Architectures. Enterprise databases including: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL Technologies. Caching and low-latency data access platforms: Redis, Distributed Caching Platforms, In-memory Data Technologies. API Management and Data Services: REST, gRPC, Event APIs, Data Service Layers. Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP. Data Quality and Observability platforms. Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Lineage concepts. Agile delivery tools including Jira, Confluence, and enterprise planning platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise credit, risk, fraud, identity, or financial data ecosystems.
• Knowledge of consumer, commercial, fraud, or alternative data acquisition and fulfilment processes.
• Experience with data correction and dispute management platforms.
• Experience with Data Mesh, Data Product, or Data-as-a-Service operating models.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks governing data management and consumer information.
• Experience leading enterprise data modernization, cloud migration, or platform transformation initiatives.
• Experience presenting platform strategy, data quality trends, adoption metrics, and business outcomes to senior executive leadership.
• Strong understanding of data operations, service reliability, and operational excellence practices.

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.

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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.