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Working at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Sales, Business Development, and Customer Success, the team helps shape solution strategy, influence product direction, and drive adoption across a rapidly growing area of TransUnion's business. Reporting within the Trusted Communications Solutions organization, this role offers the opportunity to work with industry-leading customers and contribute to the future of communications technology on a global scale.\n\nPlease note: This position may display as a Chicago-based opportunity due to a job posting system limitation. The role is actually designated as remote. However, candidates located in or near Seattle, WA are strongly preferred because this position works closely with our customer, and may spend time working from the customer location in Seattle. Our long-term goal is for this role to have a dedicated workspace within the client office. This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.\n\nRole Overview and Core Responsibilities\nServe as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to telecommunications carriers and enterprise customers, with a primary focus on supporting key customer relationships such as T-Mobile and other global telecommunications organizations.\nDesign and architect carrier-grade solutions across messaging, voice, identity, and fraud prevention domains, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and commercial value.\nPartner directly with customer technology teams, architects, and senior leadership stakeholders to identify new business opportunities, drive solution adoption, and support revenue growth initiatives.\nCapture Voice of Customer (VOC) insights and translate customer requirements into scalable product enhancements, solution designs, and future roadmap recommendations.\nCollaborate across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Business Development, and Account Management teams to bring new solutions from concept through deployment.\nLead technical discussions, solution workshops, architecture reviews, and customer-facing presentations with both technical and executive audiences.\nServe as a key contributor to Request for Information (RFI) / Request for Proposal (RFP) responses, solution proposals, business cases, white papers, and customer-facing technical documentation.\nAct as a bridge between customer technology teams and internal engineering teams to accelerate delivery, remove technical barriers, and enable successful implementations.\nSupport training and enablement efforts for customers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders to increase solution awareness and adoption.\nContribute to a high-growth business focused on expanding strategic telecommunications partnerships and increasing customer value across global markets.\n\nRequired Knowledge and Experiences\n10+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems design, consulting, or technical solutioning within the telecommunications industry, with demonstrated expertise supporting carrier-grade environments.\nDeep domain expertise in telecommunications technology, specifically messaging, voice communications, signaling, network infrastructure, and related protocols.\nExperience partnering directly with telecommunications carriers, large enterprises, or technology organizations to define and implement complex solutions.\nProven ability to translate customer business challenges into technical solutions that are commercially viable, scalable, and implementable.\nExperience working closely with cross-functional teams including Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Business Development, and Customer Success organizations.\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage effectively with architects, engineers, product leaders, and executive-level customer stakeholders.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will also be considered.\n\nRequired Technical Skills:\nStrong understanding of telecommunications protocols, messaging ecosystems, voice communications technologies, signaling frameworks, and carrier network architecture.\nExperience designing API-driven solutions and integrating enterprise systems using REST APIs, JSON, and modern application interfaces.\nExperience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (Amazon Web Services), and cloud-native architectures.\nKnowledge of microservices-based architectures, distributed systems, containerized applications, and modern integration patterns.\nAbility to evaluate and architect solutions across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.\n\nWe're Also Looking for the Preferred Skills Below. Whether You Are Proficient or Could Use Some Brushing Up, We're Happy to Support Your Career Development and Growth In:\nExperience supporting major telecommunications providers such as T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth, or similar organizations.\nExperience responding to RFIs, RFPs, and technical solution proposals.\nKnowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD practices, infrastructure automation, and cloud deployment technologies.\nFamiliarity with telecommunications standards, industry organizations, and frameworks such as GSMA, ATIS, 3GPP, IETF, STIR/SHAKEN, and SIP.\nExperience creating technical white papers, solution design documentation, customer-facing technical presentations, and reusable architecture artifacts.\n\n#LI-TE1\n\nBenefits that support every part of your life:\n\nAt TransUnion, we design benefits to help you feel well, do well, and plan well-from day one.\n\nFor Your Health: Enjoy day-one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus supplemental plan options. Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select plans. Choose tax-advantaged HSA and FSA accounts to make everyday care more affordable.\n\nFor Your Protection: We've got your back with company-paid basic life and AD&D, optional voluntary life and AD&D for you and your family, and short- and long-term disability. You can also opt into a legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.\n\nFor Your Family: From adoption assistance and fertility planning coverage to caregiver support, we're here for every chapter. Access Dependent Care FSA for possibility of an employer match, a complimentary Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave with eligibility for a thoughtful, gradual return.\n\nFor Your Future: Build toward what's next with our 401(k) with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Tap financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long-term care insurance to plan confidently.\n\nFor You: Grow and recharge with tuition reimbursement, flexible time off for exempt employees or paid time off for nonexempt employees, up to 12 paid holidays per year, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time off, plus corporate volunteer events that make it easy to give back.\n\nFor Your Wellness: Access 24/7 support including professional therapy, coaching, and emotional well-being programs alongside guided meditation and resources that support physical, mental, social, and financial wellness.\n\nWe are committed to being a place where diversity is not only present, it is embraced. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. Additionally, in accordance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, TransUnion takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in all levels of employment and develops annual affirmative action plans. Components of TransUnion's Affirmative Action Program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are available for review to any associate or applicant for employment upon request by contacting .\n\nQualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.\n\nAdherence to Company policies, sound judgment and trustworthiness, working safely, communicating respectfully, and safeguarding business operations, confidential and proprietary information, and the Company's reputation are also essential expectations of this position.\n\nPay Scale Information:\n\nThe U.S. base salary range for this position is $168,750.00 - $281,250 annually. *The salary range for this position reflects a reasonable estimate of the range of compensation for this job. 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