Job Description Summary:
The System Integration team is crucial in advancing Thomson Reuters' strategic objectives through its M&A activities, with responsibility across all systems within Commercial and Corporate Systems. The team's goal is to enable seamless transitions and integration by utilizing cutting-edge methodologies and implementing best practices. The Technical Lead plays a critical role in designing and overseeing the technical architecture for integration projects, bridging gaps between high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) execution, ensuring coherence and minimizing efficiency losses due to information gaps.
About the Role:
In this opportunity as Technical Lead - System Integrations, you will:
The Technical Lead - System Integration is responsible for leading the analysis, definition, design, and providing oversight for construction, testing, installation, and modification across multiple medium to large, interdependent systems. This role is essential for ensuring the architecture is communicated, understood, and adhered to by the project team. The Technical Lead partners with all stakeholders on large projects to provide architectural oversight throughout the lifecycle of a project, ensuring consistency and coherence in technical frameworks.
- Designs and oversees the technical architecture for integration projects, ensuring alignment with long-term IT strategy.
- Leads projects with manageable risks and resource requirements, providing architectural oversight throughout the development lifecycle.
- Manages time effectively, proactively assessing risk and dependencies.
- Engages with cross-functional teams to execute integration solutions.
- Partners with peer architects to provide ongoing architecture oversight.
- Collaborates with project managers to incorporate technical dimensions into project status reports.
- Creates and oversees architectural design consistent with IT strategy.
- Evaluates and recommends emerging trends in software design and development strategies.
- Provides design recommendations, application development constructs, and integration solutions.
- Writes design specifications and other technical documentation.
- Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems and technical issues across systems and technologies.
- Provides input to department objectives and goals, ensuring alignment with broader business strategies.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with stakeholders, understanding their needs and ensuring integration solutions meet these needs.
- Applies new technologies in integration solutions and provides recommendations to the project team.
- May support and develop technical specialists by providing advice, mentoring, training, coaching, and educational opportunities.
- Leads routine projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
- Communicates technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and adjusts communication style to suit the audience.
About You:
You're a fit for the role if your background includes:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline required; Master's degree preferred.
- 6+ years of experience in systems integration, with strong proficiency in designing and implementing integration solutions.
- In-depth knowledge of existing system solutions and how they interconnect within the organization's infrastructure.
- Proven ability to analyze complex integration challenges and develop innovative solutions.
- Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to bridge the needs and solutions between high-level design and low-level design.
- Adaptability to changing technologies and trends.
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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.
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 tomorrow’s 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 26,000 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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