Senior M&A Solutions Architect

Sr Architect, Solution Architecture

Locations: Chicago, Illinois

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago

Job Requisition ID: 19031539

What We'll Bring:

The TU M&A Architecture team provides leadership and oversight for the pre-diligence, due diligence, and integration and closing technical and information security activities of New Business Development efforts, M&As, and Investments. If you like rolling up your sleeves, working with new technologies, and delivering M&A outcomes in a fast-paced environment, this might be the role for you.

What You'll Bring:

1. Technical Breadth: Ability to understand and assess the architecture of the investing/acquiring organization and articulate how the architecture can align with the organizations’ technical architecture. Explore options for Cloud/Data center and Back office integration compliant with industry best practices. Identify options to improve internal architecture patterns by collaborating with various architects in the organization. Understand Information Security integration approaches across infrastructure, data, and application layers.
2. Leadership & Collaboration: Work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Collaborate with the Global Business Development team to address overall M&A needs and deliver required artifacts timely. Remove impediments and help teams solve complex technology and organizational challenges. Build strong partnerships with delivery teams across the US and global delivery.
3. Financial Acumen: Synthesize findings of diligence efforts and create a costing model for acquisitions with clear articulation of one-time and recurring capital and operational expenses for 5 years. Present and defend costing to technology and business stakeholders.
4. Executive Communication: Present integration updates, financial variance, and due diligence architecture, information security, and costing details to executive stakeholders. Demystify complex concepts to both junior team members and senior leaders.
5. Execution: Deliver results by collaborating with team members and adjusting priorities as required. Facilitate program execution and escalate issues to senior leadership as necessary.

Impact You'll Make:

1. Lead the modernization of TransUnion’s architecture through public cloud platforms, DevSecOps operating models, and new enabling technologies.
2. Deliver business value by moving applications and platforms to a scalable, modern architecture leveraging public cloud.
3. Enable market and solution areas through proactive dialogue on capability needs and mapping those needs to existing or new architectural patterns and standards.
4. Occasional travel will be required - less than 10%.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular job responsibilities performed virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Benefits:

TransUnion provides flexible benefits including flexible time off for exempt associates, paid time off for non-exempt associates, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility coverage, spousal and domestic partner benefits, charity gift matching, employee stock purchase plan, retirement contributions with employer match, organizational growth potential through our online learning platform, and access to Employee Resource Groups.

We are committed to being a place where diversity is embraced. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.

TransUnion's Internal Job Title: Sr Architect, Solution Architecture