Sr Developer - PHP

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What We'll Bring:

As a Senior Software Developer in one of our Fraud & ID development teams, you’ll be using your knowledge and enthusiasm of modern engineering practices to engineer new key 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.
You will provide technical expertise to the wider initiative of preparing existing services for migration to the cloud.

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. Team Management
• As line manager of a development team in TransUnion you will ensure your team members are supported providing the positive leadership and direction they require to get the job done.
• You will be responsible for managing the absence calendars of your teams ensuring adequate levels of resource to meet commitments.
• You will be responsible for managing the performance of your team members from an appraisal and disciplinary perspective.
• You will ensure knowledge sharing and relevant upskilling is in place for your team where required.
3. 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 & Microsoft .net
• 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

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.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Developer, Applications Development