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Team Overview
What We'll Bring:At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation - we’re consistently exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. This environment gives our people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius.
Come be a part of our team – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology
As a Technical Platform Manager – Data Management within Global Technology, Data & Analytics, you will define and drive the strategy for scalable, resilient, efficient, and user friendly data onboarding and data acquisition capabilities. You’ll be responsible for enabling teams to ingest, validate, monitor, and transform data via onboarding workflows across the enterprise (batch, online & streaming). This role is highly cross-functional, requiring close collaboration with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and data governance teams. 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
What You'll Bring:
Deep understanding of data lake architectures, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, dbt)
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their native data ingestion (batch/streaming) and observability services
5–8 years in product management, with at least 3–5 years in a technical or platform-focused role
Background in software engineering, data engineering, or computer science preferred
Strategic thinking with a systems mindset and empathy for technical users
Product management skills with a focus on platform enablement and internal tooling
Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira, Confluence, or Aha!
Strong ability to influence cross-functional teams without authority
Strong prioritization, roadmapping, and stakeholder management skills
Knowledge of data governance models (centralized, federated, mesh) and its application during data ingestion
Experience implementing data stewardship, ownership, and quality frameworks.
Required Knowledge And Experiences
Impact You'll Make:
Technical Product Management (TPM) plays a critical role at TransUnion as the conduit between our Sales, Products, and Engineering organizations. Our products team define the “what and why” requirements and the TPM role partners with Products and Engineering on defining and executing the “how” technical requirements.
Data Management Strategy & Roadmap: Define and evolve the vision for Data Management capabilities, including ingestion capabilities, monitoring mechanisms, and validation & hygiene frameworks
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams across solutions and markets to understand needs and translate them into platform features.
Technical Requirements: Gather and prioritize technical requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals and scalability needs.
Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Data Management platform features - from ideation to launch
Metrics & Optimization: Define KPIs to measure data onboarding performance, job success rates, latency, and user satisfaction; drive continuous optimization to reduce latency while improving job success rate.
Order Validation & Routing: Real-time decision-making for inventory checks, fraud detection, and fulfillment path selection.
Monitoring & Alerting: Define & Develop vision for data monitoring, data validation and data quality that can be leveraged across the Enterprise
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 Advisor, Product Management
Skills Required
- Deep understanding of data lake architectures, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, dbt)
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their native data ingestion and observability services
- 5-8 years in product management, including 3-5 years in a technical or platform-focused role
- Background in software engineering, data engineering, or computer science
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira, Confluence, or Aha!
- Strategic thinking with a systems mindset and empathy for technical users
- Product management skills focused on platform enablement and internal tooling (prioritization, roadmapping)
- Strong ability to influence cross-functional teams without authority
- Knowledge of data governance models (centralized, federated, mesh) and application during data ingestion
- Experience implementing data stewardship, ownership, and data quality frameworks
What the Team is Saying
TransUnion Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Day-one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision is paired with HSA/FSA options and robust mental-health resources, including 24/7 support and therapy/EAP. Wellness programming and fitness discounts further reinforce the health offering.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of about 12 weeks with a gradual return, adoption and caregiver assistance, a complimentary Care@Work membership, and a dependent-care FSA provide meaningful family coverage. Company materials also reference child and adult care benefits and on-demand EAP access for employees and dependents.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off or PTO is complemented by paid volunteer time and 10 paid holidays plus two global wellness days. Some postings note “up to 12” holidays, reflecting role/location variability.
TransUnion Insights
What We Do
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace. We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person. This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world. Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve. We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Why Work With Us
Our culture is welcoming, energetic and innovative. There’s an overall synergy that flows throughout TransUnion, creating a sense of unity in knowing that we’re all working to achieve the same overall goal. We’re dedicated to providing opportunities for our people to get involved and stay connected with their colleagues across the globe.
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