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Company Description
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, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to accomplish their financial goals and help them save time and money.
Company Description
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, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to accomplish 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.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Developer Certification Programme Director to lead the delivery of our global developer enablement initiative for the Ascend Technology Platform. This role is critical to expanding our ecosystem by empowering partner developers to build solutions on the Ascend platform.
You will shape the end-to-end certification strategy and platform enablement requirements defining skill standards, creating learning paths, collaborating on developer tooling, and ensuring the smooth access to knowledge, support, and validation, and driving requirements into our platform and product teams to ensure that the primary technology components are ready for our "open-developer" strategy.
This is a remote UK-based position reporting to the SVP Platform & Digital
Main Responsibilities
Programme Ownership: Define and lead the global Ascend Developer Certification Programme, ensuring it aligns with platform capabilities, partner needs, and strategic goals.
Partner Enablement: Design and implement learning paths, in partnership with the L&D team, hands-on training, and support tools that allow partner developers to build, test, and launch solutions on the Ascend platform.
Certification Framework: Develop role-based certifications and technical assessments that validate partner developer skills.
Content Development: Oversee the creation of technical content, including curriculum, tutorials, documentation, and exam materials, in partnership with our teams and external experts.
Community & Evangelism: Cultivate a vibrant developer community through forums, events, and direct engagement. Be a promoter for developer experience across the partner ecosystem.
Leadership: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Partner Management teams to align certification efforts with platform evolution and partner strategy.
Technology enablement: Work with Product and Engineering to ensure that the technical proposition for partner developers meets industry expectations, whilst maintaining the highest standards of control and quality for Experian and its clients
Metrics & Iteration: Define success metrics and evaluate programme effectiveness to improve engagement and effect.
Platform Advocacy: Serve as the voice of the partner developerproviding feedback to improve APIs, SDKs, documentation, and support services.
Qualifications
Experience in technical change management, transformation programs and delivery in the context of large-scale, mission-critical platforms
Experience with software development workflows, tools, and platforms (APIs, SDKs, CI/CD).
Experience working with external partners, ISVs, or developer communities to build partner ecosystem propositions & create value for the enterprise
Technically fluent, with delivery experience across change and run, whilst also commercially aware
Talent for translating technical concepts into relevant learning experiences.
Familiarity with LMS platforms, certification tools, and content development best practices.
Why Join Us?
Be an important driver of ecosystem growth for a transformative technology platform.
Empower thousands of developers to create value through your programme.
Work with some of the brightest minds in platform engineering, education, and partner success.
Join a mission-driven company committed to developer success, partner collaboration, and long-term platform impact
Additional Information
Benefits include:-
Flexible work environment, working hybrid or in the office if you prefer.
Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important 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, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
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Seniority level Seniority level Director
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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