Vice President, Data & Analytics Architecture

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your extensive leadership, technical experience, compassion, and enthusiasm to evolve and transform enterprise data and analytics capabilities?

Thomson Reuters is looking to add to their Data & Analytics team, a key leader who will work with experts across disciplines to lead our data architecture strategy and implementation. The successful candidate will be responsible to create, communicate and assure adoption of Data & Analytics Policies, Standards and Guidelines as well as overseeing the design and governance of our data infrastructure, ensuring that our data solutions are scalable, secure, and support our company's data and analytics ambitions.

Reporting into the Head of Data & Analytics, the Vice President, Data & Analytics Architecture will collaborate with other executives to drive innovation and deliver value through data-driven decision-making. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make better and faster decisions. Whether solving today's challenges or tomorrow's aspirations, you will work with the industry's brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results. As the world's leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Vice President, Data & Analytics Architecture, you will:

Develop and Deliver – In partnership with the VP Data Strategy & Business Operations you will create and evolve an enterprise-wide Data Architecture, including patterns, standards, and guidelines, that enables the future direction of our products, commercial systems, and processes.

Be a Leader – Build and lead a team of data architects to design and building robust, scalable, and efficient and well governed data systems. Provide thought leadership on data architecture trends and best practices. Mentor and develop a high-performing team.

Be a Team Player – Working in a collaborative team-oriented environment, you will share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross-functional and remote teams to ensure completeness and common understanding of the data architecture direction, roadmap, and requirements for the security and compliance of data systems in accordance with industry standards and regulations.

Have an Agile Mindset – With a strong sense of urgency, you will collaborate with IT, engineering, and business stakeholders to integrate data architecture into broader tech and business initiatives. Drive the adoption of new technologies and data management practices that enhance our data capabilities.

Be Innovative - You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will see patterns and relationships in information and events; clarify and simplify complex information; anticipate trends and possibilities that may lead to new business opportunities; consistently think and act “ahead of the curve;” anticipate and effectively respond with urgency.

Be an Effective Communicator - Through active engagement and communication with cross- functional partners and team members, you will effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments. This includes communicating the data architecture to all levels of the organization including senior executives, board members, product managers, data engineers and data analysts.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Vice President, Data & Analytics Architecture if your background includes:

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Minimum of 15 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a related field, with at least 8 years in a leadership role.

Ability to successfully operate across organizational boundaries and to influence and guide.

Robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities to produce coherent architectures and technical designs.

Strong written and verbal communication experience including cultural and language awareness.

Hands-on experience creating and evolving an enterprise data architecture, including transitional and target state architecture deliverables.

Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale modern cloud-native architectures, data engineering best practices, and modernizing legacy data architectures.

Strong knowledge of cloud database design, data modeling, and data warehousing principles.

Experience with a variety of distributed systems patterns including data caching, federated search, event driven, synchronous and asynchronous processing.

Familiarity with big data technologies, machine learning, and analytics platforms.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Experience with agile methodologies and a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle.

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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:

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.

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.

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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