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

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

Role Context

• Identity & Fraud (ID&F) is one of the most vibrant business units of Experian, currently undergoing the most remarkable Digital Transformation across its product line-up.
• It is a particularly exciting and pivotal time for ID&F as we begin decomposing several monolithic applications into microservices and deploying them into the cloud.
• As an ID&F Software Engineering Lead (.NET Core), you will be part of a high-performance engineering team contributing to and leading other engineers to deliver the product backlog of ID&F’s market-leading Identity Services platform.
• You will work closely with other Software Engineers to build our cloud-native microservices and web applications using the latest technologies and architectural patterns whilst leading a group of engineers to do the same.
• Experian UK&I is a Great Place to Work certified employer; Therefore, we are fully committed to your personal development, particularly in helping you achieve industry-leading certifications like AWS Associate Developer certification.

Essential Soft Skills

• You have extensive experience in managing high-performance, cross-functional engineering teams.
• You have strong leadership skills, capable of supporting, mentoring, and developing less experienced engineers.
• You have excellent communication and influence skills to shape and contribute to the outcomes across distributed groups.
• You will have a strong work ethic and willingness to 'go the extra mile to adhere to deadlines and team commitments.
• You are an enthusiastic learner, keen to keep up to date with software engineering best practices, technologies, and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

• As a Leader, you will create a high-performance culture and necessary environment where your Team have all the conditions for success.
• You will work with the Engineering and Delivery Managers to agree and deliver your Team's product backlog commitments in time and within budget.
• You will set the standards for your Team's software engineering best practices.
• You will work closely with the Team and the ID&F Senior Leadership Team to create a high-performance environment where individuals are happy and effective in their roles.
• You will work closely with the Engineering Manager to ensure compliance with Experian's security policy and associated security scorecard whilst delivering the backlog of planned and unplanned activities related to security, app, & infrastructure remediation.

Qualifications

Essential Technical Skills

• 10 to 14 years of experience in managing high-performance, cross-functional engineering teams
• We expect you to have considerable experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of building mission-critical, high-volume transaction web-based software systems, preferably in regulated environments (finance and insurance industries).
• You will already have proven your ability to implement agile ways of working across multiple teams successfully.
• You will have extensive knowledge of the following technologies and software engineering best practices.
  • ASP.Net Core
  • RESTful APIs using ASP.NET Web API (.NET Core)
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • SOLID Principles
  • Software Design Patterns like Adapter, Decorator, Facade and Factory patterns.
  • Test-Driven Development (xUnit.Net, NUnit)
  • Open API / Swagger
  • Source Code Management tools (Git, Bitbucket)

Highly desirable certifications & additional skills

• Jira & Bitbucket.
• Docker & Kubernetes
• AWS Associated Developer.
• Experience in building high-performance microservices.
• You have worked in an agile environment using a Scrum approach.

Additional Information

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