Thomson Reuters Looking for Director, Technology at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

In our Content-driven technology company, the Content Delivery and Productization engineering organization is responsible for the content delivery via shared services supporting all our Tax and Legal Research products. Our enterprise search technology is the key differentiator in the market for our Legal research products. Our Data Analytics Team plays a critical role in designing, developing, and availability of key systems that provide data and advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to our award-winning Westlaw, Westlaw Edge, and Practical Law products. We operate in a global, cutting-edge, and fast-paced environment building large-scale systems, solutions, and shared services running on the public Cloud.

We are looking for a passionate, solution-driven technology director to lead a high-performance development team. Vital to the position is an emphasis on devops best practices for quality delivery of solutions and the career development of team members. In this role, you will work across geographical and organizational boundaries to provide a superior level of guidance and direction across a variety of complex, fast-paced, and dynamic projects.

About You

The ideal candidate will have broad technical and supervisory backgrounds and have demonstrated repeated success in leading a diverse portfolio of project teams. If you are a passionate technology leader who loves to innovate, has led strong engineering teams, and is looking to make a big impact, this is the role for you!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a Technical Leader: Implement best practices as a knowledge expert in SDLC, object-oriented software design, customer analytics, testing and release, and working in an agile framework. Advocate for devOps best practices, quality, performance, scale, and agility within the team and with stakeholders. Ensure design and architecture are aligned with the global platform strategy and consider industry trends. Ensure fundamental quality practices are followed in the development lifecycle, such as automated unit tests and integration tests.
• Be a Decision Maker: Utilize problem-solving and analytical skills to make quick and effective data-driven decisions and roll-out strategies that align with company goals.
• Be a People Leader: Enthusiastically manage and motivate multiple teams of on-site and remote software engineers with varied skills and experience levels. Coach and mentor current and future leaders within the group; be responsible for proactively identifying individual training needs, conducting performance evaluations, and maintaining a healthy team culture.
• Be a Project Leader: Strategically plan, design, and implement software to deliver value to customers. Manage multiple projects simultaneously, gathering time and resource estimates. Drive productivity improvements.
• Be an efficient Stakeholder Manager: Collaborate and engage with external and internal stakeholders such as business teams and product owners to bring products to market. Act as a point of contact in resolving stakeholder issues.
• Be Customer-Driven: Deliver high-quality, reliable solutions that make our Products and APIs easy for our customers to integrate with while serving their needs.

Behaviors and Ways of Working:

A management style that is collaborative, energetic, and results-oriented

Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-changing, and innovative environment

Ability to influence others, earn followership, and drive consensus across stakeholder groups

The ability to flex styles to work well with a range of personalities from extremely technical team members to non-technical business leaders

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in software engineering or a related discipline
• 10+ years of software development leadership
• Ability to understand, evaluate, and discuss technical integration scenarios and architectural concepts
• Experience with Agile methodologies and understanding of modern web/SaaS/Cloud technologies and systems
• Excellent critical thinking, communication, presentation, documentation, troubleshooting, and collaborative problem-solving skills
• Some travel is required as this position manages a global team, but not more than 10% of the time

What’s in it For You?

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.

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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