Job Description

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, diverse and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.


The Tribe Leader is accountable for the assigned systems, operations, finances, development, performance as well as the employees for one of the Technology Tribes in the ANZ region. Working closely with IT and the Tribe's IT Leadership team, the Tribe Leader ensures that the Tribe is delivering on solutions in sprints while adhering to and continuously improving on the Engineering Handbook principles. The Tribe Leader also ensures all delivery is compliant with relevant Equifax policies and procedures and follows Agile delivery methodology principles. The role is accountable for achieving the Tribe's key performance indicators.


The Tribe Leader co-creates and executes the Tribe strategy by collaborating with relevant leaders from Technology, Product, Operations, D&A, Finance and Delivery organisations.


The Tribe Leader has an in-depth understanding of the Tribe's application portfolio, risks, issues, total cost of ownership and key investment initiatives. The Tribe Leader is a member of the Extended A/NZ Technology Leadership team.


What You'll Do

• Accountable for Tribe's operations, performance, and people, along with financial and budgetary responsibility.
• Technical owner for all Tribe's applications and platforms.
• Engage in and improve the software delivery lifecycle - from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Measure tribe performance across people, process and technology and continuously and demonstrably improve.
• Build and maintain global technology and partner relationships to ensure success of the tribe.
• Liaise with Finance to ensure budgets are being tracked to and aligned with forecasts, labour and non-labour.
• Reduce legacy footprint and increase cloud adoption, in accordance with EFX transformation principles.
• Support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Primary interface and escalation point for leaders (GM-level / Head of-level) across Product, Platform, Operations and D&A or similar.
• Ensure that all Squads have their organisational blockers removed.
• Assist to facilitate capacity conflicts.
• Work with Technology ELT to help run A/NZ Technology organisation as a one team.
• Lead by example and live by the values of Equifax
• Deliver on any other responsibility given by your manager

Must Haves

• 15+ years of experience in IT Industry driving technology and innovation
• BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required
• Demonstrated business acumen and the ability to solve business problems with technology
• 10+ years experience building and operating enterprise scale apps or platforms, preferably leveraging public cloud technologies.
• Experience in Software Engineering, Architecture, Technology Program or Project Management, Lean Process Engineering, Operations, etc.
• Experience with Agile and/or SAFe delivery frameworks
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise risk management
• Excellent relationship builder with demonstrated ability across functions and businesses
• Experience in leading large multi-span, multi-layered teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others to gain support in a virtual environment, along with strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong communications skills - verbal and written
• Strong decision maker who can manage priorities effectively
• Demonstrate business insight and the ability to anticipate needs and drive success
• Familiarity with security risks with technologies used in squads

Extra Points for any of the Following



• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular4/5 and Bootstrap)
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Subversion) and build tools like Maven
• Big Data, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4J)
• Design patterns
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD)
• Linux command line and shell scripting languages
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket)
• Experience working in financial services
• Assembly, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Expeditor,CA7, File-Aid in a mainframe
• Experience in COBOL, DB2 in a mainframe environment
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+) or ScalaJa
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop or NoSQL such as Cassandra
• Experience working with open source frameworks; preferably Spring, though we would also consider Ruby, Apache Struts, Symfony, Django, etc.
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI
• Strong knowledge of appropriate programming and scripting languages - Be proficient in .Net, .Net framework 4.5, WCF or related technology, AJAX, and JSON, and some type of automated testing

Why Equifax?

Equifax is a global data, analytics, and technology company and believes knowledge drives progress. We are there at life-defining moments when people are applying for college, interviewing for a new job, buying a home, purchasing a car, or even starting a small business. The products and insights we provide help people all across the world make better decisions, and we are proud of the role we play in peoples' lives. We power the decisions that move people forward by helping people live their financial best. Won't you join us?


Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our people makes a difference in our business.


We are looking for individuals who can help us disrupt the marketplace with innovation. You will do this by delivering leading-edge technology to build and deliver unparalleled customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers.


We will give you the opportunity to drive innovation and automation across the enterprise. This will include tool and process integrations across all business units within Equifax globally. And, if community involvement and social responsibility are important to you, join us and help create shared value in our global communities! Corporate Citizenship is an integral part of our company. We know through experience that community involvement will increase the quality of your career with us and simply makes the world a better place. If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don't delay, apply today. We're looking for you!


Success Attributes of the Technology organization. Does this describe you?

• Accountability
• Bravery
• Curiosity
• Collaboration
• Think and act differently
• Trust
• Ownership (build it, own it, run it)
• Decide-Execute-Ship

We offer

• Money
• Competitive pay for performance
• Comprehensive healthcare packages, schedule flexibility, collaborative working spaces, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential
• Room for you to do things your way
• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax
• And yes, we also have perks such as team activities, volunteer opportunities, awesome parties, great coffee, and in some locations, ping pong tables and food trucks
• Not yet Cloud certified? We've got you covered with paid sponsorship, resources and training

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


•Please note: This posting represents multiple roles across various teams, including a range of responsibilities and experience levels. • By applying to this position your application is automatically submitted to the following locations: •Example: Atlanta, Alpharetta, Dublin, Chile, etc. •

To speak to us about this role in more detail apply online.