Associate Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Description

Associate Cloud Solutions Architect

As part of the Infrastructure, Hosting and Networks organization, you will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, energetic, and high performing team at the heart of the Thomson Reuters transformation to developing cloud native applications and services. This group is nimble and creative and will shape our technology roadmap. This role will be instrumental to enabling the current and future of how we deliver our products at Thomson Reuters. You will be challenged with working in a team to identify innovative ideas and proof of concepts to deliver against existing and future needs of our customers.

We are currently seeking an Associate Cloud Solutions Architect who combines technical credentials and experience with a high degree of business acumen. In this role, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to design and improve their cloud architectures and services at Thomson Reuters.

About the Role

As an Associate Cloud Solutions Architect, you will:

Leadership & Communication (30%)

• Collaborate with other Architects and Engineers building cloud solutions
• Collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to bring them up to the latest cloud architectures and solutions
• Communicating risk assessments.
• Contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
• Provide recommendations to senior management.

Strategy (20%)

• Make formal and informal technical presentations.
• Lead meetings.
• Establish and develop partnerships with strategic vendors.

Technology (40%)

• Establish, enhance and communicate cloud architecture, operating and tool chain best practices
• Develop reference architectures
• Work with various technology teams on architectural solutions to their business problem
• Promote benefits of software development utilizing Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Subject matter expert developing an approach and communicating the corresponding benefits of utilizing the entire devops toolchain to deliver value to our business units
• Understand and incorporate security best practices for the cloud, partnering with our internal security team.

Financial Responsibility (10%)

• Provide financial analysis for technology decisions.
• Devise strategies and architectures to optimize consumption of cloud resources.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Associate Cloud Solutions Architect if you have:

• 8+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of relevant cloud experience
• Extensive expertise working with AWS and/or Azure
• Ability to collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices
• Ability to contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
• Ability to learn quickly
• Ability to lead meetings
• Effectively partner with and lead/influence BU project teams (architects and engineers) building cloud services.
• Technical understanding of cloud-native architecture, devops tools and practices
• Experience building software following cloud native architecture methodologies a bonus
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science OR equivalent industry experience

What’s in it For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

Learning & Development :

• Exposure to a wide breadth of leading-edge technology
• Career growth - ability to work on multiple projects and/or with various teams
• Professional growth and development opportunity through various training programs, conferences, networking events, in-house speaker series etc.
• Access to Unconferences, Harvard Manage Mentor and more, we offer learning opportunities for everyone

Benefits/Perks :

• Health benefits
• Savings/investment plans
• Paid time off (including time off to volunteer and extended parental leave)

Flexibility: We've been named as one of Forbes, Best Companies for Work/Life Balance

Global Opportunities: We have employees in over 90 countries, working across 3 different industries

Your wellbeing: We offer a program that focuses on making our lives healthier

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.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com .