Is your passion platform engineering? Are you itching to envision and build the core services that underpin all Thomson Reuters’ (TR) products? Then we want you on our Toronto-based team! This role is in the Shared Capabilities organization where we build, and set the direction for, the foundational services that power Thomson Reuters’ products.

Shared Capabilities focuses on enabling technologies that help Thomson Reuters deliver digital products to our customers. Our mission is to build a durable competitive advantage for TR by providing “building blocks” that get value-to-market faster. As an example, we manage TR’s Customer Identity capability.

As a Engineering Team Lead on the Design System team, you’ll work closely with designers, architects, software engineers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, and researchers to develop, grow, and maintain our global design system. Come join a group of passionate design and engineering professionals, who are focused on growing and scaling an organization-wide world-class platform.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as Engineering Team Lead, you will:

• Create and build: Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user- centered and iterative design). Translate design language into a reusable code library. Create scalable, accessible and testable components. Document and communicate with engineering teams.

• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists, Content Strategists, UX Researchers, Software Engineering and Architects in a collaborative team-oriented environment to lead the project from a software engineering perspective and create new components and tools to be used across our entire organization. Advocate for the consumers of the Design System (product engineering teams) while developing features that align to the needs of the end-user.

• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate engineering decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming sessions with product teams and can 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. Passion for frontend engineering and bringing systems thinking to the design world, including a relentless pursuit of test automation.

• Preferred Tech Stack: React, Redux, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Webpack, FAST Web Components, Lit, Chromium, API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and patterns

About You:
You’re a fit for the role of Engineering Team Lead if you have:

• Have experience leading a group of engineers and enable them to deliver promptly and efficiently.

• At least 6 years of experience in front-end development, with a focus on design system in enterprise applications.

• Experience building a Design System and/or customizing an existing system (Google Material, Microsoft Fluent, Bootstrap, etc..)

• Ability to partner with product owners, user experience designers, and technology leaders to establish, promote, and advance a frontend architecture strategy and best practices.

• Expertise in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related frameworks (React, Angular, etc.).

• Preferred Technology Knowledge:  React, Redux, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Webpack, FAST Web Components, Lit, Chromium, PlayWright.  Depth knowledge around API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and patterns (ex backend-for-frontend)

• Experience with a variety of web application designs including monolithic, micro frontends, SOA, micro services, and web components.

• Knowledge of component design and principles such as atoms, molecules, and organisms.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards

• Experience with building components in popular frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular, and W3C Web Component standards.

• Experience with analytic tools such as Pendo, Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics

• Experience with Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and solve complex technical problems.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.

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 for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: 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.

• 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: Nine 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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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. 

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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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