Lead Developer - PHP

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What We'll Bring:

As a Lead Software Developer in one of our Fraud & ID development teams, you’ll be using your knowledge and enthusiasm of modern engineering practices to technically lead the engineering of key new revenue generating functionality for the flagship TransUnion UK Fraud & ID product.
This will be done whilst ensuring that the live service of the products is protected, and the business is supported through roadmap deliveries.

What You'll Bring:

1. Engineering
• Partner with global TransUnion technical teams to build products and features aligned to the Fraud & ID roadmap using agreed technologies & tooling, working closely with other F&ID Tech Leads, UK based Software Architect & Test Lead
• Provide technical leadership to your team ensuring they have a clear understanding of the design of feature enhancements/changes to existing product.
• Ensure TransUnion design patterns, frameworks, and architectural standards are implemented consistently within the work delivered.
• Take accountability for quality of the code and the effectiveness of the solution in production ensuring code is well-structured, maintainable and components delivered are testable.

2. Agile ways of working
• Actively participate with the UK development team using an agile approach. Ensuring your team are delivering code with consistency, quality and aligned with community best practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional technology teams using the SCRUM methodology.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement to enable process and team maturity improvement.
• Mentor, assist and support less experienced colleagues as required.
• Participate in quality assurance to ensure products are fit for purpose and meet regulation.


Required Skills / Qualifications / Experience:

• 10+ years’ commercial experience of software engineering, including experience of
o PHP
o Zend Server
o PHPUnit, Behat
o Symfony or Silex frameworks
o Composer package manager
• A passion for software engineering, high standards and the delivery of testable code
• Excellent problem-solving skills to identify root cause and permanent resolution
• Experience leading the development of complex systems
• Experience of using a test driven approach to software engineering.
• Leadership and line management experience including managing the technical deliverables of others, managing appraisals/performance and managing team capacity and absence.
• Up to date knowledge of new technologies and techniques
• Experience of automated tests, builds and deployment
• A good understanding and competency with release pipelines
• Excellent communication and English language skills, with the ability to collaborate with teams based in UK and US
• Experience knowledge sharing and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Technical leadership providing day to day help to your team so that they understand the tasks required to deliver the solution that fulfils the requirements
• Excellent organisation skills, the ability to prioritise and allocate work within your team supporting product releases

Impact You'll Make:

• Experience with Jenkins
• Experience of Microsoft SQL Server
• PowerShell knowledge.
• Experience of Octopus Deploy or equivalent.
• Knowledge of CI/CD
• Knowledge of best practices (Design Patterns, SOLID TDD, DDD, SOLID, YAGNI, DRY, KISS)
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies

TransUnion Job Title

Lead Developer, Applications Development