Lead Software Engineer

About Role:

• In this role you will play a key technical lead role. Primary responsibilities for the role include working with technology peers and business partners to solve business problems and providing support to ensure the availability of our products are met.
• Provide technical support to operations or other development teams by troubleshooting, debugging and solving critical issues in the production environment in a timely manner to minimize user and revenue impact.
• Ability to interpret code and solve problems based on existing standards.
• Work closely with our business partners and stakeholders to identify requirements and priority of new enhancements and features and ensure that the stakeholders needs are being met.
• Actively participates and collaborates in meetings, processes, agile ceremonies and interaction with other technology groups.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, or coaching to software or systems engineering teams that are distributed across geographic locations. Proactively share knowledge and best practices on using new and emerging technologies across all the development and testing groups.
• Creates and maintains all required technical documentation / manual related to assigned components to ensure supportability.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with Java and XML
• Broad experience in enterprise-class system design and development including use of the following technologies: Java, Oracle, SQL, Messaging technologies (IBM MQ, ActiveMQ)
• 3+ years of past experience working across geographical sites
• Ability to debug and diagnose complex issues
• Experience with version control (Git, GitHub, TFS)
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Demonstrated understanding of Linux operating system
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Application and systems testing
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Desired Qualifications:
• Python or other scripting languages
• AWS (EC2, Lambda, IAM, RDS, Amazon MQ, CloudFormation)
• Infrastructure as Code
• API development & microservices (Spring Boot)
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• MQ/JMS
• DevOps mindset

What's In It For You:

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.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

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 applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.

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