Full-Time
Technical Platform Manager
Updated on 8/24/2026
TransUnion
5,001-10,000 employees
Credit reporting, risk analytics, fraud detection
No salary listed
Hyderabad, Telangana, India + 1 more
More locations: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Hybrid
At least two days per week in person at an assigned TransUnion office.
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- At least 5 years of experience as a Technical Platform Manager, Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, or similar leadership role in an Agile environment.
- At least 3 years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, developer platforms, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering organizations.
- Experience defining and executing platform strategy, adoption, governance, service lifecycle management, and roadmap execution.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering domains including observability, infrastructure automation, PKI and certificate services, container platforms, and cloud operations.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, scalability, reliability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence principles.
- Experience managing shared platform services or internal developer platforms serving multiple engineering teams.
- Experience establishing and tracking platform KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, operational health metrics, reliability indicators, and adoption measures.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving architecture, security, compliance, cloud engineering, operations, and application development teams.
- Ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Experience managing dependencies, risks, and commitments across multiple teams.
- Ability to identify patterns across organizations, simplify complexity, and establish consistent operating standards.
- Experience managing platform roadmaps, requirements, delivery execution, and reporting using Jira, Confluence, and related workflow tools.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Ability to translate complex technical topics into actionable business outcomes through communication and presentations.
- Experience balancing platform scalability, reliability, security, and adoption while optimizing infrastructure and operational costs.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with observability platforms and technologies such as Google Cloud Observability, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Google Cloud Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring, OpenSearch, or similar solutions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code platforms and automation tools such as Terraform, Harness, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms including Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native container services.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms, developer tooling ecosystems, and software delivery pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud security concepts including identity and access management, role-based access control, encryption, secrets management, and network security.
- Familiarity with enterprise PKI, certificate lifecycle management, hardware security modules, public and private certificate authorities, Transport Layer Security, cryptographic controls, and secrets management.
- Experience with trusted image management, operating system hardening, vulnerability remediation, software supply chain security, and container image governance.
- Define and manage the roadmap for enterprise platform services across observability, PKI and certificate lifecycle management, trusted images, container platform services, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platform capabilities.
- Drive platform strategy, lifecycle management, adoption, and governance in partnership with platform service owners and engineering leadership.
- Identify platform investment priorities aligned with organizational objectives and engineering needs.
- Balance platform standardization with flexibility to support diverse engineering teams and business requirements.
- Drive adoption of enterprise platform services across engineering organizations.
- Establish feedback mechanisms to understand customer needs and continuously improve platform offerings.
- Measure and report platform adoption, utilization, maturity, and customer satisfaction.
- Champion self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and experience.
- Define and maintain platform governance models, operating processes, and service lifecycle standards.
- Establish and monitor service KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, operational health metrics, reliability indicators, and adoption measures.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure services meet enterprise standards for security, availability, scalability, and compliance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives based on operational data, service performance, and customer feedback.
- Manage cross-team initiatives spanning multiple platform and engineering organizations.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, release schedules, dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Facilitate Agile planning, PI Planning, readiness activities, roadmap reviews, and executive reporting.
- Ensure successful execution of platform initiatives while maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
- Coordinate complex initiatives involving enterprise architecture, information security, compliance and risk, cloud engineering, platform operations, and application development teams.
- Build alignment among technical and business stakeholders.
- Influence architecture decisions, platform standards, and engineering best practices.
- Drive consistent adoption of enterprise-wide platform capabilities and operating models.
- Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles and operational excellence practices.
- Experience building self-service platform capabilities and improving developer experience.
- Experience supporting enterprise platform transformation or cloud modernization initiatives.
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or similar standards.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale Kubernetes and container platform ecosystems.
- Familiarity with platform engineering maturity models and internal developer platform operating frameworks.
- Experience presenting platform strategy, service health, adoption metrics, and operational performance to executive leadership.
TransUnion is a global information and insights company. It collects and analyzes data to provide services for businesses and consumers. For business clients, it offers credit portfolio management, marketing solutions, and fraud detection to help manage risk and make informed decisions. For consumers, it provides tools to monitor personal credit, including credit reports and scores. The platform supports enterprise use by enabling storage, identity resolution, and protection for building traditional and generative AI models. TransUnion generates revenue through three segments: U.S. Markets, International, and Consumer Interactive. Its goal is to help customers understand and manage credit risk, prevent fraud, and derive actionable insights from large data assets.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
1968
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026 Q2 revenue reached $1.31 billion, with 10% organic constant-currency growth.
- Management raised 2026 guidance to $5.127 billion-$5.162 billion and 11%-12% adjusted EPS growth.
- March 2026 acquisition of Trans Union de México lifted international growth and earnings power.
What critics are saying
- April 2026 CFPB order fined TransUnion $16.9 million for deceptive credit-score subscriptions.
- CFPB scrutiny threatens TransUnion’s consumer unit, where recurring payments and marketing practices stay exposed.
- Privacy rules and lender in-sourcing threaten bureau relevance, shrinking credit-data tolls by 2027.
What makes TransUnion unique
- TransUnion’s OneTru platform centralizes data collaboration, governance, and AI workflows across clients.
- June 2026 Snowflake integration embeds TruIQ credit data inside customer environments without data movement.
- July 2026 Universal Ads partnership extends TransUnion audience data into premium TV inventory.
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Company News
TransUnion has joined Universal Ads as an inaugural Audience partner, bringing its audience data into premium TV advertising inventory for app advertisers. The partnership extends cross-channel audience targeting and measurement from digital media to television. The move highlights how TransUnion is expanding uses of its data assets beyond traditional credit reporting. The integration allows app marketers to use consistent targeting across mobile, web, and connected TV platforms. TransUnion reported Q2 2026 sales of $1.31 billion and net income of $143.4 million. The company raised its full-year 2026 guidance to revenue of $5.13 billion to $5.16 billion and net income of $807 million to $821 million. Management has repurchased 5.67 million shares for $449.84 million under its current buyback programme.
TransUnion reported its tenth consecutive quarter of high single-digit revenue growth or better, achieving 10% organic constant currency growth in Q2 2026. The company raised its full-year adjusted diluted EPS guidance to 11-12% growth, reflecting strong first-half performance. U.S. Financial Services grew at a 9% CAGR excluding mortgage, driven by market share gains and innovation rather than underlying volumes. Over one-third of Financial Services revenue now comes from alternative data and non-credit solutions. The company's platform modernisation reached 60% of U.S. match activity migrated to OneTru, with completion expected by year-end. International operations accelerated to 6% organic growth, supported by recovery in India and strong performance in Canada and the UK. TransUnion reduced its leverage ratio to 2.6x, targeting below 2.5x long-term.
TransUnion reported second-quarter revenue of $1.31 billion, beating Wall Street expectations by 1.8% and marking 14.9% year-on-year growth. The credit reporting company also exceeded profit forecasts, with adjusted earnings per share of $1.23, 6.9% above analyst estimates. However, the company's revenue guidance for the next quarter disappointed, coming in 0.6% below expectations at $1.30 billion. TransUnion raised its full-year revenue guidance to $5.14 billion and lifted its adjusted earnings per share forecast to $4.79. Operating margin improved to 19.7%, up from 16.9% in the same quarter last year. Free cash flow margin also increased to 23.3% from 18.8%. Chief executive Chris Cartwright said TransUnion "delivered another strong quarter of outperformance".
TransUnion and ScanSource represent contrasting fortunes in the business services sector, which has lagged the S&P 500 with an 8% gain versus 10.8% over six months. TransUnion, one of America's three major credit bureaus, shows strong momentum with 11.6% annual revenue growth over five years and projected 11.4% growth ahead. The company's 10.1% free cash flow margin provides resources for reinvestment. At $79.84 per share, it trades at 16.4x forward P/E. ScanSource presents challenges. The technology distributor's sales fell 4.9% annually over two years, with Wall Street forecasting modest 2.4% growth. Its poor 3.4% free cash flow margin limits investment flexibility. The sector faces pressure from AI disruption and tightening corporate budgets, though quality businesses can still deliver earnings growth. TransUnion trades at $15.4 billion market capitalisation, whilst ScanSource stands at $1.11 billion.
TransUnion has enhanced its mortgage credit report by adding TruVision Alternative Credit Attributes from its FactorTrust Alternative Lending Database. The enhancement provides lenders with additional financial signals beyond traditional credit data at no extra cost. The new attributes enable lenders to assess borrower stability earlier in the application process, starting at prequalification. This helps streamline workflows and focus resources on applications more likely to convert whilst reducing risk. According to Satyan Merchant, senior vice president at TransUnion, the enhancement gives lenders "a more complete and actionable view of borrower behaviour". The addition builds on TransUnion's previous innovations, including trended credit data introduced in 2013 and the TruVision Early Access Soft Check solution.