Thomson Reuters is seeking a Software Development Manager to join our team in Product Engineering - Accounting & Tax Practice. This individual will manage and provide technical support to technical engineering team across multiple initiatives and develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle. This role also may manage budget for projects, programs, or products within the practice. This position has a hybrid-based schedule (2x per week in-office), reporting to our office in Mexico City, Mexico

About the Role 
In this opportunity as Software Development Manager, you will: 

• Develop and execute tactical and long-term technical strategy aligned with the organization's goals, preparing the team for scalable growth. 
• Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams. 
• Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling. 
• Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also effectively managing technical debt  
• Serve as a Scrum expert, guiding teams through the Scrum framework to deliver high-quality results. 
• Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements. 
• Hiring and manage a team of skilled software developers. 
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team. 
• Influencing and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s) 
• Socializing and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap  
• Demonstrating people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams 
• Ensuring team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s 
• Setting goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress 
• Leading one of more cross-functional - project teams 
• Balanced strategic and tactical focus 
• Evaluating new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors  
• Applying knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.   
• Managing building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.  
• Displaying understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer. 
• Applying critical, non-biased and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future 
• Ranking the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally “important” and “urgent”, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization   

 
About You:

You're a fit for the role of Development Manager, if your background includes: 

• Over 10 years of experience in software development, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role managing complex projects and teams. 
• Ability to elaborate on/demonstrate experience bringing in transformations within process improvement and team development. 
• Strong foundation in .NET or Java stacks, Azure, and/or AWS development, and adopting new technologies.   
• Strong experience working with an Agile/Scrum environment is required. 
• Experience working with frontend technologies: either JavaScript, React, or Angular 
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation. 
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling. 

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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, 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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