Vice President, Global Solutions Architecture
TransUnion1 day ago
Base Salary
$194k - $353k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a global team of senior solutions architects, including responsibility for recruiting, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and capability development.
- Set the global Solutions Architecture vision and translate portfolio strategy into scalable customer solutions, reference architectures, technical standards, and implementation approaches.
- Advise carrier and enterprise executives on architecture, deployment strategy, security, scalability, interoperability, and operational performance.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Solutions Consulting, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development to influence roadmaps and align technical investments with customer and market needs.
- Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, complex RFI and RFP responses, and technical implementation initiatives.
- Develop solution strategies that increase adoption, support retention and expansion, improve product readiness, and contribute to revenue growth.
- Create reusable solution designs, reference implementations, white papers, technical enablement materials, and implementation playbooks.
- Build strategic relationships with technology vendors, industry organizations, and external partners.
- Establish and monitor measures for architecture quality, deployment effectiveness, customer adoption, product readiness, revenue enablement, and team capability.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in solutions architecture, systems design, software engineering, product development, or technology consulting.
- Experience designing and delivering complex solutions for telecommunications carriers or large enterprises.
- Demonstrated success building and leading senior technical teams in a global, matrixed organization.
- Deep telecommunications expertise across messaging, voice, signaling, identity, authentication, network infrastructure, and carrier-grade environments.
- Ability to influence product strategy and technology roadmaps by translating customer, market, and competitive insights into scalable capabilities and measurable outcomes.
- Executive-level communication and advisory experience with customer executives, commercial leaders, product teams, and technical stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in cloud and distributed architecture, containers, serverless technologies, infrastructure automation, and highly available real-time systems.
- Experience designing across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments using AWS, OpenStack, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, relational and nonrelational databases, messaging and streaming platforms, monitoring, and observability.
- Working proficiency in one or more of Java, C++, Python, or Go.
- Advanced knowledge of SIP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, STIR/SHAKEN, OAuth 2.0, session border controllers, cryptography, encryption, PKI, authentication, and authorization.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant technical leadership experience, is listed among the preferred skills; a master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes participation in IETF, ITU-T, ATIS, GSMA, or 3GPP standards organizations; use of open-source technologies; strategic vendor relationships; interoperability programs; partner validation; technical test environments; and industry-standard implementation initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least two days per week at an assigned TransUnion office.
- Approximately 30%–40% travel to support customers, partners, industry forums, and internal leadership priorities.
- Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage with supplemental options, HSA and FSA accounts, and eligible dependent coverage.
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance, disability coverage, optional voluntary coverage, legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.
- Adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, caregiver support, Dependent Care FSA, Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long-term care insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement, flexible or paid time off, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time.
- 24/7 access to therapy, coaching, emotional well-being programs, guided meditation, and other wellness resources.
About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global credit bureau and information-services company that provides credit data, identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk analytics to businesses and consumers. It sells data, APIs, and decisioning software used by lenders, insurers, telecoms, and other regulated industries, and offers consumer credit reports and monitoring. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Chicago, it operates in more than 30 countries and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker TRU.