Principal UX Engineer

Role Summary:

Principal Engineers act as the go-to person and subject matter technical expert for individual products or specific technologies in their domain. In this role, strong understanding of the key business drivers and underlying technologies is key. Principal Engineers drive the definition, agreement and implementation of technology strategy while using industry standards and best practices. Principal Engineers will have extensive, successful experience owning and driving technical requirements, synthesizing technologies and capabilities into scalable products, prioritizing between features, and flair for operational excellence. This person will be responsible for consolidating and delivering a technology roadmap that aligns with the Product that focuses on innovation, optimization and/or modernization on our most critically important projects and investments. Principal Engineers are senior individual contributor roles expected to be an expert in every facet of the Software Development lifecycle, and of all the core tenants of Engineering.  Autonomy, judgement, influence, and leadership skills are essential.

The successful Principal Engineer will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment. They will drive the long-term technical vision through development of vision documents, definition of business and technology requirements, launch and post-launch measurement often also developing and indirectly leading the functional work of a small team of product engineers. They will also serve as a key player with cross-functional teams in their area, working to align interests, build and implement scalable solutions. They are seen as technical role models and leaders in their space and have an external presence.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Principal UX Engineer you will:

Scope

• Lead highly complex technical projects and initiatives with significant risk 
• Oversee critically important projects and investments
• Exercise autonomy in decision making
• Drive long-term technical vision and strategy
• Design technical solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives
• Initiate and participate in cross functional activities
• Drive organic, applied innovation
• May manage budgets/consulted for large projects or programs affecting a function on a regional basis

Sphere of Influence

• Influence software development engineer teams in their area and may influence engineering teams across multiple domains
• Support strategies for cross-functional teams in their area to execute complex initiatives
• Help strengthens organization wide engineering culture through behavior, leadership, coaching, mentorship, sharing knowledge, etc.
• Highly strategic
• Provide specialist advice to middle & senior leadership on complex issues
• Provide technical mentorship and coaching to Senior and Lead engineers
• Seen as a technical role model and leader in their space and has an external presence

Delivery

• Design technical solutions that will fit into long-term business objective 
• Initiate and participates in activities that cross Thomson Reuters organizations and business units. 
• Start and complete highly complex technical projects and participates in development reviews at sub-unit level. 
• Work on significant and unique issues requiring analysis and evaluation of the situation
• Act as a technical domain expert, consulting on application and infrastructure development projects to fit them to the strategic direction, architecture and design
• Present effectively to large and important groups, influences key customers to take action, and negotiates effective solutions between key individuals
• Recognizes problems in existing designs and recommends remedies/solutions.
• Technical expertise has major impact on choices affecting a whole sub-Business Unit, function or major product
• Contribute to the development of wider functional strategies
• Look for synergies across Business Unit or function and recommends process, product or service improvements
• Develop innovative concepts, services, technologies or products to address current and future customer requirements
• Decision are guided by functional, BU, company or industry guidelines
• Partner with business/ technology leaders and design teams to align application development with the strategic direction of the data center and collaborates with business unit design and data center support teams on the implementation of infrastructure to support applications.
• Leads the selection, evaluation, and implementation of technology.
• Participate in the development of standards and patents by collaborating closely with other teams
• Act as a technical domain expert, consulting on application and infrastructure development projects to fit them strategic architectural direction and design
• Contribute, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently
• Partner with project manager(s) to incorporate technical dimension to project status reports
• Interact frequently with senior colleagues and customer representatives
• Work on the development of new principles and concepts by advancing technology, theories and concepts

About You:  

You are a fit for the role of Principal UX Engineer if you have

Business Acumen 

• Help explore and bring new systems to operational status, applying new technologies and approaches in innovative ways. 
• identify where technology can cause a transformational shift in business and communicates to leadership. 
• Anticipate internal or external business challenges applying knowledge of external trends and internal products or processes
• Look for synergies across Business Unit or function and recommends process, product or service improvements 
• Develop innovative concepts, services, technologies or products to address current and future customer requirements
• Anticipate customer needs to influence the development of innovative solutions
• Leverage important relationships with key internal or external customers to create a broad acceptance for ideas and initiatives
• Broad knowledge of the organization, products and processes
• Demonstrates a great degree of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness

Leadership 

• Directly influences strategy and development affecting a whole sub-Business Unit, function or major product area
• Lead complex projects and initiatives with significant risk and complexity affecting a whole sub-Business unit or function
• Technical expertise has major impact on choices affecting a whole sub-Business Unit, function or major product
• Contribute to the development of wider cross business unit functional strategies
• May indirectly lead others to solve complex and ambiguous problems in a complex environment which impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives
• Partner with business/ technology leaders and design teams to align application development with strategic direction and collaborates with business unit design and data center support teams on the implementation of infrastructure to support applications. 
• Lead the selection, evaluation, and implementation of technology solutions. 
• Participate in the development of standards and patents by collaborating closely with other teams 
• Leverage relationships with key internal or external customers to create a broad acceptance for ideas and initiatives
• Interact frequently with peers, senior colleagues and customer representatives
• May act as an advisor to senior management in area of expertise
• May informally manage a small team and/or technical experts.
• Lead functional teams of technical experts and facilitates integration of their work product into complex systems.
• Help evangelize successful adoption and use of tooling and technologies
• Communicate solutions, and technology strategy through formal and informal means to business unit executives, technology management, peers and development staff, and other colleagues.
• Effectively communicates and presents complex technical concepts to cross functional teams and stakeholders
• Communicate highly complex ideas or issues at multiple levels within the organization

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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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