Title: Architect - (Software)
ID: TEC00028241
Description
The Online/Search Platform Group seeks a high-energy, motivated individual who combines solid technical credentials with a high degree of business acumen for the position of Architect within our Platform Architecture team. In this role, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to implement platform solutions (Cobalt, Data Room), which can be leveraged across multiple Thomson Reuters business units. You will provide technical oversight throughout the life cycle of a project, and partner with other Thomson Reuters Technical Architects/Technologists.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Create and oversee the architectural design of small to large sized projects. Ensure the architecture is communicated, understood and adhered to by the project teams responsible for its implementation.
- Ensure consistency with architectural standards for assigned projects.
- Proactively monitor and coordinate cross-organizational systems integration touch points to reduce or eliminate unexpected or unanticipated integration breakdowns.
- Proactively review the portfolio of upcoming product stories to identify areas in which systems integration needs must be reviewed and planned for in the early stages of the project.
- Research emerging trends in software development and architecture strategies and evaluate their use within the Cobalt and Data Room Platforms.
- Interact with technology peers to make technical recommendations for application development.
- Work on multiple projects and manage time effectively, proactively assessing risk and dependencies
- Write design specifications, programming specifications, and documentation
- Effectively communicate timely and accurate status information to project leaders
- Seek out and share technical knowledge with other members across the organization
- Participate as a team member, assisting others and leading technical projects as needed
- Take personal responsibility to impact results, deliver on commitments, and reduce costs.
- Develop and mentor the technical skills of less senior members of the technology teams.
- Communicate solutions, architectural direction, and technology strategy through formal and informal means to executives, technology management, peers, and development staff.We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Qualifications
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science with a strong academic record with preferential consideration to Masters degree in Computer Science
- 8+ years of software development experience with particular concentration in large, highly distributed systems. (ideally Java)
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills to reach binding agreement on architectural decisions for a project
- Very strong interpersonal and communications skills (including oral, written as well as listening proficiency).
- Strong issue resolution and conflict resolutions skills
- Strong data analysis skills and ability to solve complex problems independently and to generate innovative solutions
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and prioritize a diverse workload
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple levels of technology staff, from multiple technology and application domains across multiple geographical locations
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and work with technology management and technology executives
- Experience with software design methodologies and tools, testing tools and performance tools
- Experience with formal programming language such as Java, .NET, C, and C++
- Experience with software development technologies including Spring Framework, REST, Hibernate, JPA, and SQL
- Experience with database and messaging technologies such as Oracle and IBM MQ.
- Quick learner, winning attitude, eager to leverage new technologies in a dynamic team environment
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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Job: Technology Development
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: Tech Platform Eng & Ex
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
