Job description
Architect – Commercial Platform
Our Architect of Commercial Platform will combine solid technical credentials and experience with a high degree of business acumen for a position within our Commercial Engineering organization. In this role, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to build and deploy the foundation for the next generation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications and services for Thomson Reuters.
As part of the Commercial Engineering organization, you will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, energetic, and high performing team at the heart of the Thomson Reuters transformation to developing modernized applications and services. This group is nimble, creative and shapes our technology roadmap. This role will be instrumental to enabling the current and future world of the digital experience at Thomson Reuters. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concepts to deliver against existing and future needs of our customers. The role will report to the Vice President of Commercial Platform and work across the application and platform engineering teams to ensure a consistent and reliable experience for our customers.
About The Role:
In this opportunity as a Architect, you will:
Design and Deliver:
- Architectural design and principles for TR’s ERP and CRM systems to provide a secure, cost-efficient, and resilient environment for applications running on the platform.
- Best practices, services, and patterns to enable applications teams to be as productive as possible.
- Meet regularly with stakeholders to understand business requirements for implementation into core platform services.
- Provide guidance in modern DevOps development tools and practices involved with CI/CD, Continuous Testing/Security and Continuous Monitoring/Observability.
- Design and own the environment strategy for Commercial Engineering.
- Define a continuous improvement process for the Platform.
- Propose integration with other tools and vendors whenever possible and define integration best practices.
- Develop and maintain a stakeholder focused platform roadmap.
Collaborate:
- Provide architectural directions for the engineering teams including architectural principles, patterns, reference architecture and decisions.
- Work closely with the applications teams, technology, and security teams to ensure that our architectural vision is aligned with the requirements as well as Thomson Reuters standards and policies.
- Work closely with the engineering and operations teams and participate in service incident process and management to always look for feedback and areas to improve in our service offerings.
- Work closely with the 3rd party providers to help influence their roadmap according to our business needs.
- Partner with teams to engineer automated systems for regression, performance, and load testing.
- Act with organization leaders to improve release management practices from lower environments through production.
- Be an evangelist and advocate to push the envelope on what’s possible.
About You:
You’re a fit for the role of Architect if your background includes:
Skills:
- Comfortable at all levels of an organization with the ability to communicate clearly.
- Empathetic and effective change agent.
- Coaching, developing, and leading divers global teams.
- Cloud culture, tooling, and automation expert.
- Development experience and an engineering mindset with demonstrated architectural thinking.
- Share information openly, broadly & deliberately.
- Try new things, shift from “why we can’t” to “how we could.”
- Reduce complexity.
- Take ownership, acting with accountability and urgency.
- Speak up, share ideas and encourage others to do the same!
Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science with a strong academic record with preferential consideration to Master's degree in Computer Science
- 8+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of relevant cloud experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle cloud services including IaaS and PaaS
- Understanding with ERP and CRM systems such as SAP and Salesforce
- Knowledge of API management tools, Content Management Systems, Digital Asset Management capabilities like Adobe Experience Manager, Boomi, or Apigee
- Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, application networking/routing, and database automation
- Preferred TOGAF, SAFe, OPEN-CA, IASA, or other relevant architecture certification
What’s in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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