Associate Architect

**Associate Architect**

We are looking for Associate Architect, Tax and Accounting Professionals.

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.

**About the Role**:
In this opportunity as an Associate Architect, Tax and Accounting Professionals you will:

- Be a Decision Maker: Make quick and effective data-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: the ability to work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, 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 a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines.
- Be an efficient Stakeholder Manager: Collaborate and engage with external and internal stakeholders such as business teams, product owners, project management in defining a roadmap for products and processes. Act as point of contact in resolving stakeholder issues
- Focus on quality, continuous improvement and technical standards: Keep service focus on reliability, performance, and scalability while driving improvements in productivity and software development/architecture. Prepare technical specifications and align with industry best practices
- Be an Effective Communicator: The ability to 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.

**About You**:
As an Associate Software Architect team member, you will:

- Create and oversee the architectural design of small to medium sized projects. Ensure the architecture is communicated, understood and adhered to by the project teams responsible for its implementation.
- Ensure consistency with architectural standards for assigned projects.
- Proactively monitor and coordinate cross-organizational systems integration touch points to reduce or eliminate unexpected or unanticipated integration breakdowns.
- Proactively review the portfolio of upcoming product stories to identify areas in which systems integration needs must be reviewed and planned for in
- the early stages of the project.
- Research emerging trends in software development and architecture strategies and evaluate their use.
- Work on multiple projects and manage time effectively, proactively assessing risk and dependencies
- Write design specifications, programming specifications, and documentation
- Effectively communicate timely and accurate status information to project leaders
- Seek out and share technical knowledge with other members across the organization
- Participate as a team member, assisting others and leading technical projects as needed
- Take personal responsibility to impact results, deliver on commitments, and reduce costs.

Qualifications:
BS/BA degree in Computer Science with a strong academic record
- 5+ years of software development experience with particular concentration in large distributed systems
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills to reach binding agreement on architectural decisions for a project
- Very strong interpersonal and communications skills (including oral, written as well as listening proficiency).
- Strong issue resolution and conflict resolutions skills
- Strong data analysis skills and ability to solve complex problems independently and to generate innovative solutions
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and prioritize a diverse workload
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and work with technology management and technology executives
- Experience with software design methodologies and tools, testing tools and performance tools
- Experience and\or a willingness to work in a fast paced Agile software development environment

Technical experience with software development technologies
- Experience with C#.Net and C#.Net based stacks is essential.
- Architectural experience in cloud native, PaaS and SaaS technologies is considered essential for this role
- Experience with Linux and Perl would be a plus.

**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 depen