Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.
Director, Software Engineering
Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc., Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
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About the Company:
Reuters employs over 2,700 journalists in nearly 200 locations. The media and financial markets trust us to provide real-time text, images, and video news across every content category in more than 20 languages. Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people every day. The largest customer for Reuters News is the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), for whom we provide market moving news and economic indicator data. About the Role:
In this role as a Director of Software Engineering you will lead a team of software engineers designing and building the platform we use to automate market moving economic indicators, commodity news, and company data. This platform is at the heart of the value proposition with our largest customer and requires extreme attention to detail, careful planning, and effective management of engineering resources to respond to the ever-changing landscape of financial data acquisition. As an experienced technologist, you'll lead the development of robust design systems, service integrations, data analytics, and security solutions. You will continue to evolve the platform to enhance its speed, accuracy, and cost effectiveness. As an experienced engineering manager, you'll implement best practices and patterns for high-quality and maintainable software development. You will manage a distributed team, so international travel will be necessary on occasion. The Director of Software Engineering will direct large-scale and complex development initiatives, implement process improvements, and proactively manage resources and risk. We expect your work product will reflect a strong technical background and a dedication to concise, scalable code. You will lead a software development engineering team responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying new and existing software application programs within time and cost constraints. You will ensure modifications to existing software will correct errors or improve performance. You will manage and motivate a team of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds, consistently delivering quality products and services by monitoring progress. Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Provide leadership and guidance on standards and best practices for services implementation and developer productivity tools by constantly incorporating the best-in-class technologies and standards. Software Engineering Responsibilities: Demonstrate best-in-class software engineering skills to develop secure, tested, optimized, scalable code. Collaborate with designers, product managers, ops engineers, client engineers, QA engineers, and various other teams and stakeholders to solve problems utilizing innovative solutions. Identify and document product architecture and solution design. Leadership Responsibilities: Provide leadership and guidance on standards; focus on continuous improvement to raise the development skills and productivity. Simplify strategy into specific actions, making decisions and communicating priorities. Build a connection with the team through personal involvement and trust, inspiring people to want to perform at a higher level. Hire and retain top talent in the industry; inspire the organization by exceeding expectations of end-users, business partners, and cross-enterprise product and engineering teams. Communication and Interaction: Conduct regular reviews with management on progress and maintain the communication infrastructure to ensure transparency and clarity about the state of your projects.
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About the Company:
Reuters employs over 2,700 journalists in nearly 200 locations. The media and financial markets trust us to provide real-time text, images, and video news across every content category in more than 20 languages. Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people every day. The largest customer for Reuters News is the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), for whom we provide market moving news and economic indicator data. About the Role:
In this role as a Director of Software Engineering you will lead a team of software engineers designing and building the platform we use to automate market moving economic indicators, commodity news, and company data. This platform is at the heart of the value proposition with our largest customer and requires extreme attention to detail, careful planning, and effective management of engineering resources to respond to the ever-changing landscape of financial data acquisition. As an experienced technologist, you'll lead the development of robust design systems, service integrations, data analytics, and security solutions. You will continue to evolve the platform to enhance its speed, accuracy, and cost effectiveness. As an experienced engineering manager, you'll implement best practices and patterns for high-quality and maintainable software development. You will manage a distributed team, so international travel will be necessary on occasion. The Director of Software Engineering will direct large-scale and complex development initiatives, implement process improvements, and proactively manage resources and risk. We expect your work product will reflect a strong technical background and a dedication to concise, scalable code. You will lead a software development engineering team responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying new and existing software application programs within time and cost constraints. You will ensure modifications to existing software will correct errors or improve performance. You will manage and motivate a team of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds, consistently delivering quality products and services by monitoring progress. Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Provide leadership and guidance on standards and best practices for services implementation and developer productivity tools by constantly incorporating the best-in-class technologies and standards. Software Engineering Responsibilities: Demonstrate best-in-class software engineering skills to develop secure, tested, optimized, scalable code. Collaborate with designers, product managers, ops engineers, client engineers, QA engineers, and various other teams and stakeholders to solve problems utilizing innovative solutions. Identify and document product architecture and solution design. Leadership Responsibilities: Provide leadership and guidance on standards; focus on continuous improvement to raise the development skills and productivity. Simplify strategy into specific actions, making decisions and communicating priorities. Build a connection with the team through personal involvement and trust, inspiring people to want to perform at a higher level. Hire and retain top talent in the industry; inspire the organization by exceeding expectations of end-users, business partners, and cross-enterprise product and engineering teams. Communication and Interaction: Conduct regular reviews with management on progress and maintain the communication infrastructure to ensure transparency and clarity about the state of your projects.
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