Title: Sr. Developer
ID: TEC00027305
Description
Sr. Developer
Governance, Risk & Compliance is a fast-growing Thomson Reuters business. It focuses on connecting our customers' business to the ever ever-changing regulatory environment, with client groups including compliance, audit, legal and risk functions in financial services, law firms, accounting firms, regulators, insurance, energy and other industries undergoing regulatory change. The global business has over 1250 employees located in major locations across 15 countries, including London, New York, Washington DC, Minnesota, Dubai, Cape Town, Penang, Singapore and Sydney. Industry expectations are that governance, risk and compliance market will grow rapidly worldwide over the next few years, and this business unit positions Thomson Reuters very strongly to take advantage of these increasing opportunities. The business is expected to grow at double digits over the next 5 years.
The Governance, Risk & Compliance unit works with teams across Thomson Reuters to leverage the full capabilities of the business.
The User Interface Software Developer is responsible for developing high quality, large cross-browser, single page web applications using JavaScript. You will be using an in-house application framework based on the DOJO toolkit and latest web technologies, development best practices, and within a large interdisciplinary team.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work as part of an Agile Scrum team on multiple challenging development problems. As a member of a Scrum team, developers will be expected to participate in development planning exercises, pair programming and manage their own task load.
- Assist in the generation of estimates for project proposals and programming tasks.
- Assist with gathering of specifications as needed.
- Develop high quality code from current designs following appropriate coding standards.
- Use BDD and TDD practises to write well tested code. This may include the code of other team members.
- Participate in Design Inspections and Code Walk-through Reviews as appropriate.
- Assist in providing development documentation, as well as testing suggestions for the quality analysts.
- Keep management informed of task progress, issues, etc. throughout the development process.
- Perform maintenance and support activities as necessary.
- Able to work hours outside the normal business hours on occasion.
Day to day you will be building Javascript and LESS CSS widgets with Unit Tests and Behavioural Driven Development tests to meet business requirements for the application. Typical widgets we have built recently include:
- Tying a lazy-loading grid to filters which are dynamically created based on the columns and the content in the grid,
- Updating a case Real Time via NodeJS web sockets so that when users are editing or changing the case other users are both notified of the changes and see them replicated in their view,
- Creating a dynamic form builder for editing a case based on a model
We are developing a shared framework which will be used by more business units throughout Thomson Reuters:
- Login process with pluggable authentication providers,
- Shared LESS files which have a theme switcher,
- A versatile list widget for simple lists, searching, taxonomy trees and lazy loading items,
- A filters widget for dynamically generated filters.
As a UI team we are also developing our Continuous Integration and tools:
- Mocking and schema layer for sharing REST end points between NodeJS and the UI,
- Build scripts utilising closure compiler for minification and compiling code in sections that can be lazy loaded on demand as the user navigates the app,
- Unit test wrapper with Sinon for mocks and stubs
As a developer you will be having interactions with:
- Product owners, business analysts and user experience specialists to determine what the work is,
- Quality assurance team to perform behavioural driven tests and drive out bugs,
- Java Back End developers defining interfaces and building features,
- Other development teams, whether they are ThomsonReuters or outsourced.
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
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION: BA/BS in related field or commensurate work experience
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:
- Excellent JavaScript development knowledge - specifically OO style JavaScript and Ajax interaction patterns.
- Experience of JavaScript toolkits such as DOJO, Backbone, Angular, Ember, ExtJS, YUI or KnockoutJS. Cross training to Dojo will be provided.
- An understanding of the intricacies and insanities of cross-browser development.
- Experience of JSON, JSON Schema and REST APIs.
- Excellent knowledge of CSS2 (opportunity to work in CSS3 environment).
- Excellent knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD).
- Experience working with a team using conformant coding standards eg JSLint.
- Working knowledge of a code versioning system (Github, Subversion et cetera).
DESIRED KNOWLEDGE:
- Continuous Integration.
- IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Sublime Editor, Vim.
- Design-by-contract.
- Pattern Based Design.
- Having a design aesthetic and/or an ability to use Adobe Photoshop.
- Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) Cucumber JS or Capybara.
- General understanding of systems and application administration.
- Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Domain.EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- At least 4 years working in user interface development.
- Understanding of best practices in software product development.SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experience working with User Experience and QA teams
- Experience of Agile development practices
- Good communication skills, verbal and written.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to successfully manage multiple projects, time and resources.
- Ability to work with specific deadlines.
- Effective interpersonal skills; the ability to handle objections and counter feedback professionally.
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.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
Job: Technology Development
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: F&R GRC Technology Operations
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level:
Job Type: Standard
Shift:
Travel: No
