What We'll Bring:
We Are TransUnion:
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.
What You'll Bring:
We’re looking for a Delivery Manager to join our growing Software Development team.
The Delivery Manager is accountable for ensuring development teams meet their delivery commitments and for clearly communicating progress to enable Product Delivery to support the organisation’s short- and long-term objectives. Acting as a key facilitator for both the Product Owner and the team, the Delivery Manager works to remove impediments that could hinder sprint goals. The role focuses on fostering creativity and productivity within the team while ensuring achievements are visible to stakeholders. Additionally, the Delivery Manager provides guidance to the Product Owner on how to maximise return on investment for the team.
Day to Day You’ll Be:
Delivery:
1. Driving teams towards delivery commitments
2. Effective coordination of work throughout the release
3. Consistent and ongoing approach to planning, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements
4. Solve issues and remove impediments to delivery
5. Effective stakeholder management through proactive communication and regular, consistent reporting
6. Effective budget management within the constraints of the project
Practice:
7. Collaborating with Delivery Managers to define the future of TransUnion’s delivery practice and working together to implement that vision
8. Call out, challenge and improve processes that introduce inefficiencies and slow the pace of deliveries
9. Ensuring effective agile processes are in place to enable delivery
10. Coaching and supporting the team
Key Tasks:
11. Manages, directs, and coordinates one or more segments of the organization's product development functions
12. Estimates delivery timescales, develops and manages the development and release plans, and communicates progress effectively.
13. Manages the development and implementation of general operating policies, processes and procedures for the organisation and leads on projects
14. Uses best practices and knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve products/services or processes
15. Engages with key stakeholders to drive development and completion of projects, aligning with business strategy, Group policies and regulatory requirements
16. Provides support and leadership where appropriate on specific projects, method changes or systems developments
17. May train/mentor junior staff
18. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Essential Skills & Experience:
19. Understand fundamentals of iterative development
20. Understand software development life cycle processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/business
21. Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
22. Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
23. Understand backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
24. Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and development and testing practices
25. Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
26. Experience of audit and compliance within own function
27. Proven Scrum Master/PM
28. Experience of working in a Software Development environment in a medium to large company
29. Working in an agile team
Desirable Skills & Experience:
30. Experience of working in a regulated environment
31. Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
32. Logical and analytical approach
33. Organised
34. Effective leadership skills, able to motivate and empower others
35. Good assertiveness skills
36. Good conflict resolution skills
37. Strong attention to detail
38. Self-motivated
Impact You'll Make:
What’s In It For you?
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:
39. 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
40. Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
41. A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
42. Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
43. Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart
TransUnion – a place to grow:
If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together
Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.
Additional support:
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting
Interview & Hiring Process:
Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.
We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.
#LI-Hybrid
Find out more about Life At TU UK:
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
IT Sr Proj Mgr, IS Projects