Director, Risk & Compliance Engineering & Assurance
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Job Summary
As a content-driven technology company Thomson Reuters operates in a uniquely complex and regulated environment and is maturing risk and compliance management towards intelligent automated and agentic systems underpinned by data to drive accountability and speed in decision making. The Director Risk Engineering & Assurance is a pivotal leadership role in this journey.
About the Role
As Director Risk and Compliance Engineering & Assurance you will:
Set the technical strategy. Own the AI strategy foundations and engineering roadmap for Risk & Compliance setting the technical direction for how the function adopts and scales AI automation and agentic workflows to enable our by-design and assurance ambitions.
Deliver the data products. Build publish and continuously improve governed risk compliance privacy and resilience data products curated collections of signals from across key areas within Thomson Reuters.
Modernise TPRM and partnerships. Mature the automation and agentic-AI capabilities for third-party due diligence (supplier and customer) partnerships due diligence compressing cycle times while strengthening not weakening the quality of assessment and enhancing continuous monitoring.
Automate assurance. Lead the use of technology and AI to further mature automated Assurance work in particular controls testing moving from sample-based manual testing toward continuous evidence-led assurance.
Build a world-class team. Build and develop the existing team into a world-class forward-engineering function defining the people processes and technology capabilities the skills competencies ways of working and tooling needed to deliver at pace.
Engineer for trust. Ensure every solution is enterprise-grade and aligned with Responsible AI data governance access control and the firms fiduciary-grade standards so stakeholders trust the outputs enough to act on them.
About You
Youre a fit for the role of Director Risk & Compliance Engineering & Assurance if you have the following required qualifications:
You are an engineering and AI leader who builds teams and ships at scale. You have led technical teams that deliver production-grade software data and AI and you can set direction in ambiguity and translate complex business problems into scalable well-governed solutions. You are as comfortable making architecture and build-versus-buy decisions as you are coaching your team shaping a roadmap with senior stakeholders and holding delivery accountable.
You do not need to be a career risk professional. Deep risk compliance or audit domain knowledge can be developed over time and the team includes that expertise. What is essential is proven engineering leadership strong AI and data foundations and the judgement to embed sound risk and control principles into what you build. You lead with a bias to enable: you find the safe fast path to yes and treat the function as a catalyst for accountable growth not a brake.
What We Are Looking For
Engineering & Technical Leadership
Substantial experience leading software engineering data or AI/ML teams typically 12 years of relevant experience with several in a leadership capacity delivering production-grade solutions at enterprise scale.
Strong hands-on foundations in modern data and AI engineering (for example Python SQL cloud-native platforms data pipelines) enough to set technical direction credibly and make sound architecture decisions.
Demonstrated experience with AI/ML technologies including LLMs Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agentic workflows Natural Language Processing (NLP) and predictive analytics and the discipline to run them reliably in production.
Track record of building on shared enterprise data platforms (for example Snowflake) and delivering through modern interfaces such as MCP rather than building parallel infrastructure.
Team Building & People Leadership
Proven ability to build grow and retain a high-performing teams defining roles skills and competencies and developing existing talent into a world-class capability.
Experience designing the operating model of a technical team its ways of working delivery cadence quality standards and tooling in a product operating model context.
A coaching leadership style that raises the technical bar while creating an environment where the team do their best work.
Risk Assurance & Automation Domain
Experience automating risk compliance or assurance processes with technology and AI third-party or customer due diligence monitoring or controls and controls testing e.g. enterprise control testing is a strong advantage.
Understanding of how to embed risk identification control design and issue lifecycle management into technology solutions so automation strengthens the control environment.
Responsible AI & Governance
Understanding of Responsible AI practices model governance data access control and privacy-by-design with the ability to hold solutions to TRs standards.
Ability to determine and implement how AI subscribes to sensitive signals and to assure the reliability of AI-generated insight including monitoring drift detection and graceful handling of failed data feeds.
Business Partnering & Influence
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical and AI concepts to non-technical senior audiences.
Experience partnering with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate needs into products and influencing decisions through data insight and clear storytelling.
Commercial judgement and a bias to enable: framing risk so leaders can act holding owners accountable across functions the team does not control and finding the safe path to yes.
Key Leadership Responsibilities
Strategy & roadmap. Set and own the Risk & Compliance AI and data-product strategy and roadmap aligned to Risk and Compliance vision and mission.
Team & capability. Lead the forward-engineering central team and its hiring and capability development.
Platform partnership. Establish the rent-not-build partnership with the Data & Analytics organisation and the shared-service model that serves Risk and Compliance.
Delivery. Deliver priority data products and automation.
Operating disciplines. Own the data-product operating disciplines product management semantic and taxonomy ownership and AI access and insight assurance.
Outcomes. Measure and report success by decision-influence and accountability outcomes not build volume.
Key Relationships
Within Risk: VP Risk (line manager) and the Risk partnering directors across Enterprise Risk & Policy Governance GTM Operations Technology & Data TPRM and Assurance & M&A.
Across Risk & Compliance: Compliance Privacy and Resilience as co-consumers of the shared data-product estate.
Across TR: Legal Data & Analytics CTO Product CIO and wider CDO organisations and Internal Audit.
Technologies Youll Work With
LLMs and agentic frameworks
RAG architectures
AI agents and orchestration (e.g. LangChain / LangGraph)
Python and modern data engineering
Snowflake and governed semantic layers
AWS / GCP cloud services
Vector databases
Data pipelines and MLOps tooling
Business intelligence and visualisation tools
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Whats in it For You
Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally 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.
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.
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