Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect

We are seeking an experienced leader who can bring a modern, practitioner mindset to Enterprise Architecture. This person will be recognized as an architecture subject matter expert, have deep experience in system design and engineering, and demonstrate exceptional business consulting skills.

You will join our CIO organization, a fast-paced, energetic, and high-performing team at the heart of Thomson Reuters. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape Enterprise Architecture at TR while collaborating with business stakeholders and other architecture teams while providing technical leadership and guidance of investment of technical capabilities at an enterprise level.

Our target candidate will demonstrate an ability to define a transformative vision for how enterprise architecture will partner with business technology teams to bring an enterprise view to everyday problems. Uniquely, we are targeting a senior leader that can pivot from vision development to tactical problem-solving when required.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will:

Facilitate an architect community at Thomson Reuters by collaborating with architects to drive cohesion, standards, and architecture best practices at scale.

Provide strategic and technical architectural guidance to senior management, business technology project teams and functional organizations.

Guides teams in defining the future state of end-to-end architectures, platforms, products, tools, and solutions to advance capabilities in the business.

Actively engages the vendor community to understand the market, identify products that can support TR’s mission, conduct proof of concept evaluations, facilitate sourcing processes, and successfully integrate new technologies into the estate and support operations.

Participates in and contributes to thought leadership and strategic direction during team meetings and executive workshops.

Participate in our Technology Standards & Governance committee to influence and ensure the appropriate levels of governance are in place.

Prepares strategic updates and vision documents, briefings, and reports and demonstrates excellent communication skills and executive presence in presentations to TR executives, customers, and partners.

Contributes to and influences the technical strategies associated with a potential acquisition or divestiture.

Behaviours and Ways of Working:

Experience acting as a change agent, driving continuous improvement and excellence.

Experience leading large, transformational, multi-year programs within a complex, matrix environment.

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

Demonstrates the ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid, complex decisions.

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

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

Empathetic and effective change agent.

Take ownership, acting with accountability and urgency.

About You 

You’re a fit for the role of a Principal Enterprise Architect if your background includes:  

A minimum of 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience implementing a myriad of architecture patterns such as SOA, microservices, cloud modernization, infrastructure and DevOps

Ability to produce clear, concise, relevant, and accurate recommendations based on information gathered from a variety of stakeholders and subject matter experts

Comfortable at all levels of an organization with the ability to communicate clearly.

A deep and fundamental technology heritage that will gain the respect of the top architecture technologists within TR and across the broader industry.

AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI certified or relevant industry experience.

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 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: Eight 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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DISCLAIMER

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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.