Head of Software Engineering & Cloud Platform

TransUnion; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

12 holidays per year

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

TransUnion in Chicago is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership across distributed teams. You will drive modernization efforts, migrate legacy systems to cloud-native microservices, and ensure reliable, secure APIs and scalable platforms.

You will mentor senior engineers, establish best practices in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automated testing, and align technology decisions with product roadmaps and business goals while delivering high-quality

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or any Engineering field, or a related field plus 2 years of experience as a Lead Engineer / Developer or in software architecture / design required.
• Must have proven track record for building great teams that are focused on the marathon of continuous delivery and innovation; building low latency, high throughput, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience containerizing and running productions systems in public cloud; software design experience with APIs, Unix, Linux, Informix, PostgreSQL, Python, Web Services in C and C++, Java, SOAP, JSON, Google Protocol Buffer, Shell Scripting, GIT, Mercurial, Artifactory, Maven, UML, Match Algorithm design.
• Some telecommuting permitted.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for cross-functional, globally distributed engineering teams.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, security, and reusable platform components.
• Drive migration of legacy on-premises systems to secure, cloud-native microservices architectures.
• Oversee enterprise API design and governance to ensure reliability and scalability.

Skills

Cloud architectures

Lead engineering

DevSecOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

API design

Python

Java

C++

Unix/Linux

Kafka

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Git

Mercurial

Artifactory

Maven

Informix

PostgreSQL

Python

C++

Java

SOAP

JSON

Google Protocol Buffer

Shell Scripting

Kafka

Job description

TransUnion in Chicago is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership across distributed teams. You will drive modernization efforts, migrate legacy systems to cloud-native microservices, and ensure reliable, secure APIs and scalable platforms.

You will mentor senior engineers, establish best practices in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automated testing, and align technology decisions with product roadmaps and business goals while delivering high-quality