Director - Digital Technology

Come and join the global Digital Technology team, at one of the most respected companies in the world, as we work to transform Thomson Reuters into a truly Digital company. We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business, by focusing on the individual user. We are looking for an experienced, self-driven digital technology leader who loves the challenge of turning complex engineering problems and constraints into elegant technical solutions that meet our customers’ needs. Our team promotes an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged. Our work focuses on a large portfolio of transformational efforts as we work together to deliver on the promise of making it easy to do business with Thomson Reuters.

We are looking for a Director, Technology to lead Digital Commerce capabilities that power end-to-end customer purchase, trial and renewal experiences.  Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations & government clients around the globe. We are looking for a strong technology leader who, in partnership with our product management function, can deliver seamless and intuitive digital solutions for our global customers. As a Director, you will develop a comprehensive strategy for a set of digital commerce capabilities in support of Thomson Reuters’ digital commerce ambitions.  In addition, you will lead a globally distributed engineering team to design, build, and operate modern and intuitive digital commerce capabilities and technologies.

About the role:

As a Director, Digital Technology you will be responsible for:

Accountabilities:

• Understanding of SDLC in an Agile development environment.

• Understanding of modern technologies including commerce, web, frontend, backend, big data, and cloud

• Understanding of API development and management tools

• Manage and negotiate scope with product partners, stakeholders, and development teams

• Ability to work with onshore and offshore partners, contractors, consultants, and outsourced vendor work  

• Manage finances including capital and operational expenses

Technical Competencies – Technology Design, Development and Delivery

• Lead the design, architecture, development, and deployment of digital products

• Adopting best practices in all aspects of design and development

• Ensure product releases are well planned and executed successfully

• Establish and monitor continuous deployment, including development and management of the pipeline

• Provide continuous integration, automated build, automated deployment, and environment management

• Implement robust monitoring, logging, performance, and security sound solutions

• Remove roadblocks to delivery execution with diplomacy and a sense of urgency

• Improves the quality of development in the organizations and promotes the best development practices, under the direction of management

• Implement metrics to measure and continuously improve velocity, productivity, and code quality

• Identify opportunities for change and develop plans for capitalizing on these opportunities

Organizational Effectiveness – People / Leadership Skills

• Provide leadership by establishing the technology vision, goals, and objectives

• Manage globally distributed team of technical leads and software engineers

• Determine new, creative methods to employ and manage teams on projects and distribute responsibilities

• Create trust and credibility with stakeholders and customers and work with them to identify issues and opportunities

• Build transparency, accountability, and collaboration in the distributed team and stakeholders

• Responsible for department and individual performance assessments and improvement plans

• Responsible for coaching, counseling, assisting employees in developing individual career development and training plans

• Responsible for assessing and recommending improvements to the organization structure, roles, and responsibilities

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Director, Digital if you have:

• 8+ years of progressively responsible of technology design, development, and delivery

• 8+ years of web, frontend (React, AEM), backend (Salesforce, SAP, Apttus), API development and management tools (Dell Boomi, Apigee), big data, and cloud (AWS) is strongly desired

• 5+ years of managing large global teams

• Experience in managing cutting-edge technologies as well as modernizing legacy technology

• Experience in delivering large complex applications

• Experience collaborating with multiple functional and technical teams including partners, stakeholders, contractors and consultants to deliver projects

• Demonstrated growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline and automation

• Ability to influence peers and leadership

• Financial acumen and experience in estimating and managing budgets

• Good presentation, persuasion, and communication skills  

What’s in it For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Hybrid Work Model: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 response, our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines with the majority of our offices planning to remain remote until further notice. Upon return, we will embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; 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.

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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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