Job Description

Associate Architect
Product Engineering | Shared Capabilities | Design System

Are you passionate about platform engineering and eager to build core services for Thomson Reuters products? Join our Toronto-based Shared Capabilities team, where we create foundational services powering our product across businesses.

Our mission is to accelerate value-to-market by providing essential building blocks for development teams to build full-stack applications with innovation and speed. As an Associate Architect in the Design System team, you will collaborate with diverse professionals to architect, develop, and maintain our global design system. Working alongside Lead Software and User Experience Engineers, you\'ll ensure component reusability, ease of use, and configurability.

Come and be a part of our high-performing team, committed to growing and scaling a world-class Design system.

About the Role

In this opportunity as an Associate Architect, you will:

• Architect and build \xe2\x80\x93 Gain strong experience in responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Translate design language into a reusable code library. Create scalable and accessible components. Architect component API for configurability and ease of use. Document and communicate with engineering teams.
• Be a Part of a Collaborative Team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists, Content Strategists, UX Researchers, Software Engineers and Architects in a collaborative team-oriented environment to spearhead the project from a software architecture perspective and create new component architecture and tools to be used across our entire organization and design system.
• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You will justify and articulate engineering decisions during design reviews. You will guide brainstorming sessions with product teams and share outcomes using your excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself with next generation user experiences, technology, and contribute to process development practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX & technology needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You\xe2\x80\x99re a fit for the role of Associate Architect if your background includes:

• 2+ Experience building a Design System and/or customizing an existing system (Google Material, Microsoft Fluent, Bootstrap)
• 2+ years of Experience with front-end design & architecture - React, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Webpack, FAST Web Components, Chromium, PlayWright
• Demonstrated experience with implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for front-end applications using tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI, or Github actions
• Strong understanding of automation and orchestration of build, test, and deployment processes

Desired:

• 3+ years working as an architect in an enterprise setting, preferably in the public cloud such as AWS.
• A bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in computer science or similar

What\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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 caf\xc3\xa9 networking.
• Social Impact: Eight 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\xe2\x80\x99ve never talked about with as much pride as we should \xe2\x80\x93 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.

#LI-SS2

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\xe2\x80\x99ve 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\xe2\x80\x99s most global news services \xe2\x80\x93 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.

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