Senior Solutions Architect

What You'll Bring:

• Work with global customer's (North America, LATAM, EMEA, APAC regions) senior solution architects and product managers effectively in an agile development environment and navigate deep into technical problem space.
• In partnership with Product and Sales Management, formulate and execute strategies to exceed revenue objectives including pricing strategies based on customers.
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
• Interface with customer's key stakeholders (including C-Level) and evangelize the value proposition of TransUnion solutions.
• Contribute to building business cases and advocates for investment as needed, which includes partnering with Business Development, Product Management, Sales, and Product Engineering teams.
• Spend time with customers capturing VOC (Voice of Customer) and user feedback, applying design thinking principles to understand their problems and needs.
• Apply a commercial, user-centric mindset to build robust, market-back GTM strategies.
• Directly support sales & account management individuals to help convert prospects and accomplish annual revenue targets.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions with customers and internal product/sales teams to increase product/service awareness and knowledge across teams.
• Work with Senior Architects and Senior Developers to design/develop/maintain stateless micro-services in various environments (Public/Private Cloud, On-premises in customer domain) using modern techniques of CI/CD
• Contribute to improving best practices to deliver high quality solutions leveraging open-source tools/toolkits and utilities with automated builds, tests and deployments
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional organizations including system architects, project managers, product managers and operations.
• Follow Agile development methodology leveraging tools like GIT (SCM), JIRA (User Stories), SLACK (Auto Notifications/Channels), MS TEAMS
• Participate in direct customer interactions, including national & international travel (40-50%)
• Take a lead role in working with Product, Technology and Sales team members for responding to RFI/RFP's
• Author or otherwise contribute to solution design documents for customers including other artifacts (white papers and reusable content).

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.
• Some nice to have technical skills:
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, VMWare
• Container based deployments (Cloud Native): Docker, Kubernetes, K8
• ELK Stack: Beats, Logstash, Open Search and Kibana 
• Orchestration: Ansible, Terraform
• Messaging: Streaming with Pub/Sub architecture (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Monitoring/Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
• Protocols: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), DNS (Domain Name Service), HTTP, SSL, STIR/SHAKEN, OAUTH2 (3rd party Authentication/Authorization)
• Mobile Application Development/Support: iOS, Android