Application Architect

We are seeking a highly motivated Application Architect with experience in enterprise and/or hosted applications development. You will work closely with a very experienced team to extend and support our industry-leading integration solutions and work with many of the latest technologies. We seek a candidate with demonstrable, proven expertise in Cloud application architecture, microservice architecture, design, and implementation. Broad experience in various types of databases, distributed, and web-based applications.

In this opportunity as an Application Architect, you will:

Design and Deliver:

Provide thought leadership and influence on the following areas:

Modernizing the application and accelerate our move to a microservice architecture

Application of cloud technologies

Approaches related to decentralized data engineering and data meshes

Be collaborative:

Collaborate with architects, managers, product managers, and engineers to establish architecture direction

Work with architects from different groups on TR wide initiatives

Be curious and innovative:

Keep abreast of new technology and industry trends, including implementation of proof of concepts to understand approaches and technologies

Mentor and coach:

Mentor engineers in robust design, influence, and leadership

Be a decision maker:

Make quick and effective data-driven decisions, with good problem solving and analytical skills to infer qualitative and quantitative data and roll-out strategy that aligns with company goals.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Application Architect if your background includes:

or degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar

10+ years experience in software development, design, and architecture. Experience with distributed systems patterns including microservices and asynchronous, message-based communication

1-2 years of experience developing cloud-native applications using Azure cloud platform services with exposure to infrastructure as code and DevOps principles.

Experience with C#, .NET Framework, Microservices, REST APIs, and SQL databases

Have experience in implementing containerized applications using orchestration technologies like docker, Kubernetes

Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue), micro frontends and backend for frontend design patterns

Proven ability to incorporate architecture aspects such as security, scalability, flexibility, portability, maintainability, cost, operability, availability, and disaster recovery into designs

Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and analyze new technologies

Experience in designing large-scale and complex systems

Ability to work creatively and analytically in problem solving

Proven ability to be a team player possessing strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills

Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies

Willing to dive deep into the code and collaborate with teams implement solutions you have designed

Strong focus on system performance with the ability to troubleshoot in large and complex software systems

Communicate both written (documentation) and verbal (knowledge sharing sessions) effectively to help educate and drive technical strategy with team

Provide technical guidance to teams, ensuring design and architecture are aligned with the global strategy

Able to work independently with minimal direction to achieve goals

Experience with data analytic architectures (optional) 

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: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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.

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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 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.