Enterprise Architect Cloud Infrastructure and Integrations

Do you want to shape and deliver the cloud architecture strategy of multi-billion dollar multi-national?

Thomson Reuters is currently implementing a large digital transformation programme, to fundamentally transform our Lead to Support processes and enable Digital. As part of this, Cloud Infrastructure and Integration Architecture play a pivotal role to enable different commercial services to be onboarded through both digital channels as well as through our Platforms

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  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 as a Cloud Infrastructure and Integrations Enterprise Architect you will: 

• Be a Technical Leader: Research and recommend technical standards and best practices. Work with technology teams and beyond to realise their implementation

• Be an efficient Stakeholder Manager: collaborate and engage with external and internal stakeholders such as business teams, product owners, project management in defining roadmap for products and processes. Act as point of contact in resolving stakeholder issues

• Be a Decision Maker: make quick and effective date driven decisions, with good problem solving and analytical skills to infer qualitative and quantitative data, and roll out strategy that aligns with company goals

• Be a Team Player  – ability to work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross functional and remote teams

• Be Curious & Innovative  – continuously update yourself with next generation technology, development tools, and contribute to process development practices 

• Be an Agile Person  – with strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines. 

• Be an Effective Communicator  –  ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues, and share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills.   Work with the business owners to translate requirements into actionable architectures

• Be Responsible for:

  • Architecture Strategy & Roadmap - define and update enterprise architectural roadmaps for cloud infrastructure and integration capabilities

  • Architecture design oversight of future and existing Cloud Architecture and Integration Solutions, ensure that technology solutions align with the overall technology strategy to support reliable, scalable and secure Cloud and Integration architectures. Ensure also that the architecture is communicated, understood and adhered to.

  • Architecture Governance – partner with internal cross business architecture groups  as well as Cloud and Integration Design Authorities, work vendor partners and be the Enterprise Architecture representative for Commercial Engineering’s Cloud and Integration capabilities.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Cloud Infrastructure and Integrations Enterprise Architect if you:

• Have a wide variety of Cloud and Integration Architecture experience – across multiple business contexts

• Have at least 5 years of Cloud and Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture or equivalent technical and assurance experience

• Have consulting experience with a strong track record at a leading IT consultancy or large corporate

• Have experience working with agile teams and methodologies and globally distributed teams.

• Have Solid experience techniques in the following areas: Cloud architecture set up, monitoring, scaling and auto-scaling, networking and load-balancing, single and multi-region resilience for applications and databases, migration from on-premise to cloud, governance of cloud infrastructures, security and integration between on-premise and multiple cloud vendors,

• Have Solid experience in systems and techniques in the following areas: Dell Boomi 4 years+, Oracle Fusion Middleware (or equivalent) technologies, Messaging Middleware, API Management, RESTful & SOAP API design, JSON & XML, Informatica and other leading ETL/ELT tools, strong experience in Java including Spring, Sling, JCR and OSGI.

• Have solid experience in technologies such as: Amazon Web Services 4 years+, Docker / Kubernetes (or equivalent) 4+ years, Puppet

• Have demonstrable experience in large-scale on-premise data centre migrations to cloud and technology modernization initiatives.

• Have a solid track record of experience within Blue Chip clients

• Ideally have a Development/Systems background with experience across the full project lifecycle

• Have experience in developing enterprise architectures

• Have experience in working with diverse teams, including multi country and company teams

• Have experience managing or directing work of others to contribute to a shared goal

• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Have a self-motivated, proactive mindset

• Have an organized and methodical approach

• Required degree level (BA/BSc/MSc/BEng/MEng) in a Technical/Business discipline

• Preferred – certification in TOGAF or other architecture framework

• Preferred experience of key application and database cloud deployment patterns: Microservices, Serverless, Messaging Middleware, Availability Zones and Streaming patterns.

• Preferred experience of several of the following enterprise applications patterns: Realtime and Batch Data integration, Master and Meta Data Management, Long running transactions, Messaging Middleware patterns, microservices and cloud-native architectures

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. 

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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