Senior Development Lead

Job description

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with a competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative AI technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to financial, legal, media, and tax and accounting professionals, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

This role as a Senior Development Lead is part of the News Technology Group. As AI technologies become more prevalent, they have the potential to provide revolutionary efficiencies in News production. The position will deal with incorporating AI capabilities into our Editorial tools and processes, enabling journalists to realize these efficiencies and provide greater insight over a broad range of topics.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Development Lead, you will:

• Participate in project/work planning sessions to analyze requirements.
• Contribute to requirements gathering, in collaboration with capability/product and/or business owners.
• Develop and integrate applications per written specifications. May be responsible for writing design specifications and architectural diagrams.
• Translate technical requirements into application code and modules.
• Make modifications to existing applications and modules in accordance with written specifications
• Unit test and implement application modules they have developed or modified, ensuring application meets needs of business.
• Take part in reviews of own work, and the work of colleagues.
• Support operational teams with system maintenance, such as upgrading, fall back, troubleshooting, etc.

About You

You are a fit for the role of Senior Development Lead if your background includes:

Essential Skills & Experience Required:

• 8+ years' experience working as a software developer.
• Strong and demonstrable programming skill in one or more modern computer languages such as, but not limited to, C#, Java, NodeJS, and/or Python.
• Knowledge and experience with data representation formats such as XML and JSON.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably AWS but also Azure and GCP.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, co-operative team leader abilities; ability to work with global teams in a squad-oriented organization.
• Effective communication skills, including written and spoken English.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration and management.
• Experience building and using Web Services.
• Experience with .NET.
• Experience with ElasticSearch and other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Linux or Unix
• Knowledge of network services (TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc.)
• Familiarity with Databases.
• Familiarity with UX development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD
• Familiarity with design patterns
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with Security design and practice
• Familiarity with ReactJS
• Asynchronous Programming and Threading Concepts

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.

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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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