Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

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. A significant portion of this valuable data is automated, providing LSEG with the speed and accuracy necessary for demanding financial professionals.

About the Role:

In this role as a Director of Software Engineering you will:

The Director of Software Engineering 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 an 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 modification to existing software will correct errors or improve performance.

You will manage and motivate a team of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds. Consistently deliver quality products and services by monitoring progress. Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Provide leadership and guidance on standards, best practices for services implementation and developer productivity tools by constantly incorporating the best-in-class technologies and standards. You will maintain long-term client relationships and networks with our most critical customer.

Software Engineering:

• 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 :

• 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 … inspire 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
• Effectively communicate complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences including executives and clients
• Facilitate group through complex issues to decisions. Ensure group participation. Drive workshops/meetings to conclusion and/or actionable outcomes

About You:

You are the fit for the position of Director of Software Development if your background includes:

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 10 years of progressive, work experience
• 8+ years of experience building applications in an Agile environment based on modern JavaScript architecture and frameworks

Suggested Skills and Experience:

• Significant, and proven experience in software architecture and front-end (web) product development; 6-8 years of experience preferred
• Confirmed people manager able to provide mentorship, vision, and motivation for a globally distributed team and optimize execution of the technology strategy
• Opinionated about how development teams work together, collaborate, organize, and ensure the quality of their output
• Experience designing and delivering robust, high-volume, highly reliable, and highly available web products for use in customer-facing applications
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, including a basic understanding of scalability, security, server-less architecture, and cost control concerns
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Ability to take ownership of multiple issues and project deliverables while continuing to deliver high quality results that are in-line with project schedules
• Experience working with and negotiating 3rd party software packages and vendors
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience

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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:

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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $173,300 - $321,800. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states: CA, CO, CT, IL, NV, TX, WA and/or remote. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $157,500 - $292,500. The base compensation range in other locations may vary. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This job posting will close .

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