Thomson Reuters Hiring for Software Development Manager at Toronto, ON Full Time

Is your passion platform engineering? Are you itching to envision and build the core services that underpin all Thomson Reuters’ (TR) products? Then we want you on our Toronto-based team! This role is in the Shared Capabilities organization where we build, and set the direction for, the foundational services that power Thomson Reuters’ products.

Shared Capabilities focuses on enabling technologies that help Thomson Reuters deliver digital products to our customers. Our mission is to build a durable competitive advantage for TR by providing “building blocks” that get value to market faster. As an example, we manage TR’s Customer Identity capability.

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Design System team, you’ll work closely with designers, architects, software engineers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, and researchers to develop, grow, and maintain our global design system. Come join a group of passionate design professionals, who are focused on growing and scaling an organization-wide world-class platform.

About the Role

This role is within the Shared Capabilities’ Design System team, which focuses on the engineering aspects of the Design System. In this opportunity as Software Development Manager you will:

Build and manage a team of approximately 8 software engineers and 1 architect.

Technology Strategy for Front-end Architecture – Provide thought leadership and guidance in setting the vision for front-end architecture, eventually covering a landscape with 100s of products. Collaborate and drive alignment with these other organizations within TR: Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security and Risk Management, Corporate Strategy, and others.

Create and build – Lead a front-end engineering team and advocate for responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Help the team to translate design language into a reusable code library, create scalable and accessible components. Document the design system and help communicate with product engineering teams.

Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists, Content Strategists, UX Researchers, Software Engineering and Architects in a collaborative team-oriented environment to lead the project from a software architecture perspective, and create new components and tools to be used across our entire organization. Advocate for the consumers of the Design System (product engineering teams) while developing features that align with the needs of the end-user.

Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate engineering decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming sessions with product teams and can share outcomes using your excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself with next-generation user experiences, technology, and contribute to process development practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX & technology needs for complex product and user requirements.

Enterprise Technical Evangelism – Work with the architecture council and across the architecture community at TR. This is both a “push” (promoting the Design System capability) and a “pull” (What new capabilities would have the most value? What adoption barriers exist?).

At the end of the day, we are looking for individuals who will enable Thomson Reuters to think big, make it simple, and move fast.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Software Engineer Manager if you:

Are experienced and passionate about building high-performing software engineering teams

Have a passion for frontend engineering and bringing systems thinking to the design world

Have experience building a Design System and/or customizing an existing system (Google Material, Microsoft Fluent, etc.)

Ability to partner with product owners, user experience designers, and technology leaders to establish, promote, and advance a frontend architecture strategy and best practices.

Experience with a variety of web application designs including monolithic, micro frontends, SOA, microservices, and web components.

Experience with cloud-native architectures and modernizing legacy architectures.

Preferred Technology Knowledge: React, Redux, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Webpack, StencilJS, Lit, Chromatic, Cypress. Depth knowledge around API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and patterns (ex backend-for-frontend)

8+ years experience in IT / Software Engineering in an enterprise setting including 4+ years leading software engineering teams with 2+ years working specifically in frontend design and architecture

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar

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: 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 throughout 2021. 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.

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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