Software Development Manager
Overview:
Thomson Reuters is seeking a passionate, hardworking, and enthusiastic Software Development Manager to be part of our highly dynamic engineering team responsible for the development and modernization of our ONESOURCE Global Trade application suite.
OneSource Global Trade is a comprehensive software solution designed to simplify the complexity of global trade compliance and logistics. It provides tools and information to manage international trade effectively, helping businesses ensure compliance with regulations, optimize their supply chain, and reduce risks associated with cross-border transactions.
Successful candidates will typically:
- Have a seasoned background in enterprise SaaS and/or Cloud software development on AWS or Azure.
- Have a vison for product modernization through innovation and cutting-edge technology.
- Measure success by delivering working software and end user satisfaction.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, and even use it to drive better ideas, work and success.
- Have a proven track record of delivering software projects on time and on budget.
- Possess experience managing several large project initiatives concurrently, along with good people and communication skills to explain project goals and inspire support for them.
- Show successful line management experience, including managing geographically distributed and/or outsourced with multi-disciplinary teams.
About the Role:
In this role as a Software Development Manager you will have key responsibilities as follows:
- Leadership of large-scale, complex software development and modernization projects of a strategic nature, or the more difficult portions of such projects involving multiple platforms within the enterprise.
- Provide daily direction and oversight for 2-3 scrum teams consisting of up to 30 staff.
- Work collaboratively with the product management teams to define the client facing requirements and technical requirements to develop, execute and maintain product roadmap for the GTM project.
- Participate in client facing focus groups, usability studies and firm visits to help craft the product vision.
- Set the technical direction for the team, drive the evolution of the systems architecture, and make appropriate technology choices.
- Management of the comprehensive development project lifecycle, including buy vs. build analysis, application development, software selection, outsourcing, and systems implementation.
- Build partnerships with 3rd party vendors.
- Collaborate effectively with product managers, project managers, systems engineers, and the senior management team to allocate engineering resources appropriately across the project.
- Evaluate customer/prospect needs with longer-term product roadmap needs, weighing, balancing, & communicating the tradeoffs as necessary.
- Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our product development organization.
- Have an advanced understanding of software development methodologies and the demonstrated ability to design and develop complex software systems.
- Contribute to all aspects of an Agile software development process including: design, programming, testing, documentation, quality assurance and implementation.
- Lead code reviews to enforce code standards and provide constructive feedback to developers.
- Mentor the technical resources on the team to reinforce best practice and develop the team members.
- Looks forward to leveraging “innovation time” to work on pet projects and special areas of interest.
- Participates in recruitment efforts for responsible technology team.
- Optimizes project deliverables to ensure that technology design fits with existing product architecture and technology strategy.
- Creates an environment and a culture that encourages immediate response to problems and sets expectations and timeframe for resolution with customers or groups managing customers, and manages escalated issues
- 15% Coding + 85% People Management
About you:
- 5+ years of experience leading multiple Agile development teams responsible for developing enterprise class applications.
- 10+ years of experience in core software development for large enterprise class applications.
- 3+ years of experience in developing cloud native applications:
- Full stack development
- C# / .Net Core
- TypeScript
- Angular
- API’s – REST / GraphQL
- Microservices
- MVC
- Database – SQL / NoSQL
- Cloud Native application development
- Containers - Docker, ECS/EKS, and Kubernetes
- Message Queueing Services – Amazon SQS / MQ
- A good understanding of design patterns and N-Tier architecture.
- Experience designing applications iteratively with continuous collaboration between business and technology.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Have a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering or related technical field.
Additional Desired Skills:
- Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) software development practices.
- Understanding of algorithms and data structure and how to efficiently implement them into a solution.
- Working knowledge of BI tools such as PowerBI, QuickSight or Tableau.
- Be an energetic, self-starter, who is comfortable in a team-oriented environment including the ability to clearly articulate daily individual accomplishments and blocking issues.
- Demonstrated history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated history of good decision-making, conflict resolution, and follow through.
- Strong written & oral communication skills
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to them to the teams engineering best practices.
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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.


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