Senior Director Engineering

Overview

This role is part of Experian’s UKI B2B division, where our purpose is to empower and inform decisions through data and innovation. We turn complex data into clear insights that help businesses understand and support their customers. Our data is trusted by over 5,000 clients and 1.5 million consumers.

We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead a critical cloud-first transformation initiative across our UKI business. This role requires a deep engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering technology transformation projects, AWS hands-on experience, and the ability to influence enterprise-wide engineering practices. The ideal candidate will bring technical gravitas , strategic foresight, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders toward a unified engineering vision.

The role will provide technical leadership to ensure solutions are adequately designed and engineered to meet client and customer needs while meeting time, cost and quality constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the product engineering teams and accountable for creating and nurturing a culture of Engineering Excellence
• Lead, Mentor, Coach and develop Engineering teams, using characteristics of great leadership to improve team effectiveness and deliver value in line with business strategic direction.
• Accountable for project engineering delivery outcomes. Use effective MI and metrics to track health of projects and engineering estate.
• Collaborate across the enterprise for this strategic initiative.
• Be an impactful operational escalation point and lead resolver for engineering and solution design issues. Active decision making to remove roadblocks for the teams.
• Drive adoption of best practices with test driven development, CI / CD, automated regression leading to high quality and high velocity engineering deliveries.
• Be an avid advocate and practitioner of GenAI capabilities to drive quality and efficiency in all aspects of product engineering.
• Security first mindset and engineering – partnering GSO to ensure multi-level security embedded across all new capability meeting all Experian and industry standards.
• Manage engineering delivery risks.
• Partner with product and architecture teams to deliver in key objectives around latency, data refresh and quality, elasticity, configurability and resilience of the system.
• Embed an innovation and experimentation mindset in team members.
• Make use of metrics and measures to drive insight and continuous improvement to ensure the Engineering teams are continuously improving (e.g. DORA, Application availability, change failure rate, time to restore, etc) and impediments are processed promptly.
• Ensure the platform is engineered with 0 tech debt and process / guardrails to ensure ever greening of estate
• Embed a broader operating environment that is supportive of Agile delivery-based methods to deliver high end business outcomes.
• Act as a business change driver at the senior level, applying appropriate organisational change management methodologies as required.
• Contributes to the Technology Roadmap to achieve business goals / objectives and provide a sustainable platform for future growth and operational needs.

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com

Experience and Skills

Everyone has different experience, and so please don’t rule yourself out if you cannot ‘tick’ all of the qualities mentioned above. Talk to us about the experience that you do have.

Our approach to flexible working

We care about work that works, whether that’s about where you work or adjusting your hours to fit better with your life. Our flexible working practices, including our hybrid working model where you can split your working time between the office and your home, support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as ensuring that our people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. So that you can love where you work, please discuss what works for you with your recruiter during the hiring process.

Accepting you, for you.

We want you to feel accepted for who you are and to feel safe, valued and to help us build a culture of true belonging. Experian is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, Veteran status or whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

Additional Information

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian\'s culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI, work / life balance, development, authenticity, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. Experian\'s people first approach is award-winning; World\'s Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work in 24 countries, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site and Glassdoor to understand why.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is a critical part of Experian\'s DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, color, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

Benefits

Experian care for employee\'s work life balance, health, safety and wellbeing. In support of this endeavor, we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits, enhanced medical benefits and paid time off.

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