Engineering Manager

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments — from buying a home or a car to sending a child to college to growing a business by connecting with new customers — we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 17,800 people operating across 44 countries, and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group

Job Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Engineering Manager to work within our Consumer Information Business.

Background:

This is an incredibly exciting time for the Experian UKI Region, as we look to build our presence in the UK and Hyderabad and work on a technology transformation to meet our aspiration to significantly scale our business over the next five years. This an opportunity to join Credit & Verification Services on this journey and be part of a collaborative team that uses Agile DevSecOps principles to deliver business value. 

Credit and Verification Services currently comprises nearly 100 engineering teams who deliver over 200 products achieving significant revenue per annum for our UK Business.  Our unique culture and agile ways of working offer a great opportunity to those seeking to join a talented set of diverse problem solvers to design, build and maintain our products. We pride ourselves in excellence, adopting best practices and holding ourselves to the highest standards.

The Domian:

As a member of the Acquisitions and Originations team, you will be part of a delivery team working on the development and delivery of products that combine technology and business outcomes, allowing people to share their credit information with our clients to receive a market leading score and a clear picture of eligibility and affordability of new credit to help them achieve their next big life event e.g. buying a car, or house. Providing accurate and up to date information is key in maintaining financial health for our consumers.

Our Tech:

We're a proud software house using a rich mixture of the tools and features. We're using .Net Core in all new services and are always keen to evaluate new features to see if we can take advantage of them. React front ends with a mix of MVC and SPA architecture. We use multiple testing and quality techniques, and our services are pushed through our environments using DevOps pipelines is predominantly AWS environments which communicates with our Server and Mainframe estate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading an agile team to develop quality solutions
• Collaborating effectively to support and enhance the full product lifecycle
• Reviewing proposals, evaluating alternatives, providing estimates and making recommendations
• Serving as an expert on applications and providing technical support
• Revising, updating, refactoring and debugging greenfield and established codebases
• Supporting other team members’ development

Qualifications

• Experience of the full development lifecycle
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
• The ability to work with offshore teams from different cultures and background
• Write clean, scalable code, with a view towards design patterns and security best practices
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to analyse problems and requirements
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Passion for continually pushing and improving how we build/test/prove our services

Required Technical Skills/Knowledge:

• 10+ years<Specify number of years for hyderabad> - including leading teams
• Ability to pick up new skills and proprietary code
• Strong .NET Core/Framework experience
• Entity Framework & Databases (SQL Server/SQL Azure)
• Experience working in SOA or microservices architecture
• AWS (Kubernetes/Lambda .etc)
• Good understanding of application security principles in web applications
• Competent in OO design patterns and concurrency concepts

Useful skills:

• Serverless development and deployment (desirable)
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure (desirable)

Additional Information

Who are Experian?

We unlock the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. At life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to university, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity.

For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 17,000 people in 37 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian.

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our LinkedIn and social media channels using the hashtags #ExperianLife and #ExperianWay.

Why choose us?

Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or planning for the future, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!

We are committed to building an inclusive culture and to creating an environment where people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. Our flexible working practices support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as our people. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, and if this is important to you, we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process

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