Associate Database Architect, Solutions Architecture, IHN

Associate DB Solutions Architect

We are currently seeking a DB focused cloud solutions architect who combines solid technical credentials and experience with a high degree of business acumen for a position within our Platform Engineering team.  In this role, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to design and improve cloud native software applications, databases and services for Thomson Reuters. 

As part of the Platform 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 cloud native applications and services. This group is nimble and creative and will shape our technology roadmap.  This role will be instrumental to enabling the current and future world of cloud computing at Thomson Reuters. You will be challenged with working in a team to identify innovative ideas and proof of concepts to deliver against existing and future needs of our customers.

About the Role

As an Associate DB Solutions Architect, you will: 

Leadership & Communication (30%) 

• Collaborate with other Architects and Engineers building cloud services.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices in DB migration, selection and use.
• Communicating risk assessments.
• Contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of DB migration and modernization projects concurrently.
• Provide technical governance of projects to ensure adherence with standards.
• Provide technical recommendations to senior management.
• Mentor less senior members of the technology teams.

Strategy (20%)

• Provide support for creating centers of excellence for cloud data services.
• Make formal and informal technical presentations.
• Lead meetings.
• Establish and develop partnerships with strategic vendors.

Technology (40%)

• Establish, enhance and communicate cloud-native database architecture and engineering best practices
• Subject matter expert developing an approach and communicating the corresponding benefits of utilizing cloud databases to our business units
• Understand and incorporate security best practices for the cloud, partnering with internal security team.
• Define processes to best utilize people and tools to solve problems.

Financial Responsibility (10%)

• Provide financial analysis for technology decisions.
• Devise strategies and architectures to optimize consumption of cloud resources.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Associate DB Solutions Architect if you have:

• Ability to collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices
• Ability to contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
• Ability to learn quickly
• Ability to lead meetings
• Effectively partner with and lead/influence BU project teams (architects and engineers) building cloud services.
• Technical understanding of relational databases and best practices
• Technical understanding of application use of databases
• Experience modernizing from relational databases to modern nosql, graph or other fit for purposes databases a plus.
• Technical understanding of cloud-native architecture and engineering best practices
• Experience building software following cloud native architecture methodologies
• Extensive expertise working with AWS and/or Azure
• 8+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of relevant cloud experience
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science OR equivalent industry experience

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: 

• COVID-19 Response: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 a majority of our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines, with the majority of our offices planning to embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work in 2022. 
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more 
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: work form anywhere (in country); caregiver paid time off, bereavement leave; company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing 
• 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: Eight 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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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