Senior Director, Data & BI Platform

Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals worldwide make decisions that matter. As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Whether solving for 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 asSenior Director-Data & BI Platformyou will:

We are seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee the development and operation of our Data and Business Intelligence (BI) Platform. As the Senior Director, Data & BI Platform, you will be responsible for building and managing a high-performing team of software and platform engineers, evolving our Data & BI Platforms, and ensuring the strategic implementation of business intelligence tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

Data and BI Platform Evolution:

• Lead the evolution of our Data & BI Platforms to streamline and accelerate end-to-end data pipelines.
• Enhance the ingestion, transformation, and consumption of enterprise structured and unstructured data.
• Ensure best practices in data governance and collaborate with data and analytics teams to enhance data services.

Team Building and Development:

• Recruit, onboard, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Integrate new hires with existing staff to create a cohesive unit capable of managing complex data platform services.
• Identify and nurture talent to handle responsibilities effectively.

Fostering Employee Ownership:

• Cultivate a strong sense of ownership within the in-house team
• Encourage team members to consider long-term implications and customer needs, leading to improved service quality and operational efficiency.

Operational Excellence:

• Implement effective processes and workflows to streamline operations and improve service delivery.
• Emphasize clear communication and organized project management for smooth transitions and continuous improvement.

Engineering Best Practices:

• Lead initiatives on testing and monitoring of data & reporting flows to ensure reliability and efficiency.
• Implement engineering best practices to maintain high standards of quality and performance.

Stakeholder Management:

• Manage relationships with leadership, architects, product owners, and business users.
• Align different perspectives and priorities to ensure the success of platform improvements.

BI Tooling and Process Enhancement:

• Assess internal BI tooling needs and rationalize the existing estate.
• Enhance and streamline business intelligence tools, processes, and implement them strategically.
• Continuously challenge and evolve the existing platform capabilities and keep up to date with new offerings.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Director-Data & BI Platform​, if your background includes:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Digital, Data, Analysis, and/or Technology, with a focus on data and analytics.
• Proven experience in leading data platform services and evolving data pipelines.
• Expertise in building data models and end-to-end BI workflows.
• Knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and other languages/applications necessary to create dashboards and reports.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.
• Thorough understanding of data and systems infrastructures, including cloud (AWS, GCP) and BII & Data Platforms.
• Strong skills in recruiting, developing, and motivating high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex data platform services and foster a culture of ownership.
• Experience in implementing operational processes and workflows for service improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align diverse perspectives.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with a focus on end-user experience.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for effective updates and outcomes communication.

If you are a strategic leader with a passion for data and analytics, and a track record of building and managing high-performing teams, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

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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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