Sr.Manager Application Development

ChennaiFull-timePosted Jul 29, 2026

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Team Overview

• Accountable for the budget, performance and results of medium-sized solutions capability engineering team and also scale that using TU global operating model.
• Manages experienced professionals who exercise moderate latitude and independence in their assignments globally.
• Provides direction and guidance to senior management on the execution of services, products, process, standards or operational plans in support of the organization's technology strategies.
• Participate in software design meetings and analyze client/partner needs to determine technical requirements.
• Clearly communicate the status of technology projects to executive team.
• Accountable for the budget, performance and results of medium-sized solutions capability engineering team and also scale that using TU global operating model.
• Manages experienced professionals who exercise moderate latitude and independence in their assignments globally.
• Provides direction and guidance to senior management on the execution of services, products, process, standards or operational plans in support of the organization's technology strategies.
• Participate in software design meetings and analyze client/partner needs to determine technical requirements.
• Clearly communicate the status of technology projects to executive team.

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

  • Minimum of 10 years of broad engineering experience, ideally 4+ years in a management role, with demonstrated experience as a strategic leader
  • Deep understanding of core software engineering principals
    Proven experience planning, implementing, and managing software engineering functions
  • Confident in abilities to coach and mentor team members and future leaders
    Experience with recommending and evaluating effectiveness of training within engineering teams
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or equivalent experience.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate with a variety of stakeholders
  • Build distributed systems (full stack – front end, back end and operational activities) – work on improving and adding new functionality to solutions capability distributed systems backbone
  • Develop software with robust coding to power major components of large, mission critical, real-time distributed applications
  • Design and implement features evolving our online advertising and data management product offerings
  • Experience in driving ownership of end to end software products out of India
  • Experience of leading cloud migrations

Required Knowledge And Experiences

  • Lead, develop, and motivate high-performing software development teams of geographically distributed software engineering associates and set clear priorities to achieve key results and organizational objectives that lead to predictive outcomes and consistently achieving high-levels of service availability and reliability
  • Be responsible for growing and developing our software engineering team through hiring, training, coaching and mentoring
  • Develop the strategy and implement the plans for automated software testing and deployment

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 Manager, Applications Development

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