Head of App Development

4 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom TransUnion Full time

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 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.

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

We’re happy to talk flexible working. We operate a hybrid model allowing you to explore the balance of work and hours from home and/or from our offices in Leeds or London.

As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme, our benefits packagecomes with:

26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)

Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday

A generous contributory pension scheme +access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Private health care +a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools

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.


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. 

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