Lead Software Development Engineer-Reuters Product Connector

Lead Software Development Engineer-Reuters Product Connector

Lead Software Development Engineers work across the end-to-end software development life cycle and apply modern software development practices when defining designing building testing and delivering software and services to users. Lead Software Engineers effectively collaborate with cross functional teams including senior stakeholders to deliver on projects. You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing software development engineering in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards development activities milestones and timelines. This role independently builds software solutions solves highly complex problems and displays innovation when delivering projects and/or product(s).

About the role:

• Influences multiple cross-functional project teams to execute and adopt a point of view for ideas and initiatives
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Trains and mentors colleagues including Sr. Software Engineers
• Strategic focus
• Plans designs develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products
• Writes code that establishes and enhances coding specifications typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.
• Delivers software features with exceptional quality meeting designated release plans and delivery commitments.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Owns a functional area. Breaks large requests down into sub-tasks gives higher-level status updates. Writes test plans.
• Takes operational responsibility. Sets measurable goals and meets them. Performs code reviews
• Participates in developing technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
• Sets software engineering project schedules defines project parameters and tasks and monitors project tasks.
• Develops and keeps the vision of the project leading others toward its completion.
• Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Owns the development and rollout for an entire product or large project.
• Leads the daily work of assigned work group / team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team. Makes needed adjustments to short-term priorities.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise. Interacts with direct team of accountability peers and/or managers in other teams. May interact with vendors and/or customers to share information and improve workflow processes.
  

About you:

• 5-10 Years of experience
• If the candidate has experience in some of these platform then it would be a plus:
  • Java
  • AWS
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Serverless design technics
  • Business SaaS systems including Salesforce Zuora Stripe
  • Integration architecture experience is a big plus
• Data & analytics experience is welcomed
• Very good communication skills to be able to talk with business technology management top management in meaningful and result-oriented manner
• Have wide technology experience and vision
• Learn quickly. For instance able to catch up on data architecture and work with other architects on designing the data platform which correlates with enterprise strategy.
• Challenge business decisions and views influence business decisions
• Be a bridge between business and technology
• Provide high level estimates scope definition work breakdown structure and cost estimates for management
• Create system design which can be understood by business and by technology including developers QAs BAs and management
• Provide technology governance of multiple scrum teams
• Be hands-on. For instance review PRs created by developers to validate that system design is addressed properly or create a POC to prove some design option (but no intensive coding is required)
• Understand enterprise architecture and be able to create design aligned with enterprise architecture
• Be able to improve engineering practices including at solution architecture area such as architecture documentation standards and guidelines
• Able to research analyze and evaluate solution options (e.g. buy vs build) present them to architecture and business stakeholders
• Able to lead as an architect multiple projects at a time balance your time and focus between them
• It is very preferred to have at least basic knowledge in ecommerce domain B2B and B2C processes
• Agile/scrum environment
• Automation technology
• Education - Masters/Bachelors Degree Computer Engineering/ Computer Science/ Information Technology.

#LI-BD1

Whats in it For You

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. 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.

As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on .