Head of App Development

Description:

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 Head of App Development to join our growing Global Technology team .

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Work closely with product management and product owners, to define product roadmaps and requirements to deliver against functional commitments and non-functional needs.

• Identify, control and mitigate risk within products, services and product development practices.

• Work closely with product stakeholders, develop an effective operating model with continuous product development and improvement through iterative release processes.

• Plan the product development priorities, establish and maintain effective monitoring and controls and ensure effective control of risk in balance with business need against accepted risk.

• Improve product development practices to manage product development within the software development and release lifecycle methods, ensuring all product and service releases meet Product Development Lifecycle requirements .

• Ensure resource availability across product teams, and identify areas of risk and resource exposure.

• Create and manage a skills and competency matrix to ensure efficient release of products across teams in alignment with agreed product and technology roadmaps.

• Coordinate weekly updates and monthly reports on the status of product development and release against agree product and technology roadmaps.

• Establish, coach, motivate and manage a management team of the product development teams.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Lead a product development function with the product development organisation to meet the development requirements of the product and technology strategy.

• Ability to define product development tasks and resolve resource and infrastructure inter-dependencies across multiple product teams.

• Direct and provide decision-based leadership on product development and technical priorities, ensuring effective execution of agreed plans.

• Ability to manage a complex, cross-functional product development function with concurrent product development teams.

• Ability to communicate at all levels including executive level, via a variety of mechanisms, to external third-party suppliers, partners and customers.

• Ability to define and improve a firm foundation for continuous product development.

• Experience of recruiting and managing third-party suppliers and remote product development teams.

• Management skills to define, establish, co-ordinate and manage product team structure, build and maintain morale, and create a solid work ethic across development teams.

• Competent in the identification of risks, defining plans to control or remediate risk and continuously measure and reduce risk across the function.

• Competent in establishing practices to measure and ensure compliance with policies, standards and practices within product development.

• Passion for quality excellence, methodical, thorough and diligent

• Strong organisational and time management skills.