Associate Solution Architect

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

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 an Associate Architect (AWS Data Architecture) you will: 
About the Role
In this opportunity as Associate Solution Architect, you will:

• Be a Technical Leader: Research and recommend technical standards and best practices. Work with technology teams and beyond to realize their implementation.
• Be a Decision Maker: make quick and effective date driven decisions, with good problem solving and analytical skills to infer qualitative and quantitative data and roll out strategy that aligns with company goals.
• Be a Team Player – ability to work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross functional and remote teams.
• Be Curious & Innovative – continuously update yourself with next generation technology, development tools, and contribute to process development practices. 
• Be an Agile Person – with strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines. 
• Be an Effective Communicator – ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues, and share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills.   Work with the business owners to translate requirements into actionable architectures.
• Be Responsible for: Design for future and existing Data Architectures for Self Service Solutions. Ensuring that technology components used are fit with the overall technology strategy. Ensuring that the architecture is communicated, understood and adhered to.
• Developing technical documentation.
• Technical guidance and support to development teams. Hands-on debugging skills
• Work closely with internal technical teams during issue resolution and root cause analysis if needed. 
• Drive user migrations and data from Legacy to new AWS technology stacks

About You

You're a fit for the role of Associate Solution Architect if your background includes:

• Have experience in developing solution architectures, preparing and maintaining Business process, Data Model, system, sequence and process flow diagrams.
• Establish, enhance and communicate cloud architecture, operating and tool chain best practices.
• Understand and incorporate security best practices for the cloud, partnering with our internal security team.
• Ability to find resolutions during critical issues like data problems, performance issues etc. 
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently toward assigned goals.
• Desirable to Have a wide variety of Digital and Self-Service Portal Architecture experience – across multiple business contexts.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, communication and verbal skills with a strong customer service focus 
• Desirable to have Broad knowledge and experience with Cloud-native software design, cloud native data stores design and implementation, Containers, Microservices architecture, Data Warehousing, and proficiency in AI models, LLMs, Predictive analytics etc.
• Have experience working with agile teams and methodologies and globally distributed teams.
• Ideally have a Development/Systems background with experience across the full project lifecycle
• Have experience in working with diverse teams, including multi country and company teams.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have a self-motivated, proactive mindset.

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• Hands on Experience AWS cloud services mainly AWS aurora Postgres SQL, RDS, AWS lambda, API gateway, and S3
• Preferable 2+ years in a development or support organization supporting large applications. 
• Preferable 2+ years’ experience with Stored procedures, database functions & batch scripting 
• Desirable to Have Experience in DevOps, IaC (Infrastructure as Code) & Java 
• Experience in database migration, user migrations and data integration with systems like SAP is must.
• Required degree level (BA/BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng) in a Technical/Business discipline.
• Preferred – certification in AWS or other Cloud vendors.

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 (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

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: Ten 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.

Optional - compensation. Compensation may only be relevant for certain positions and is recommended for use primarily by Sales:

Compensation Base salary and a variable compensation that is directly related to your success.

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