Lead Software Engineer, Data platform

The Core AI BI & Data Platforms Team has been established to create, operate and run the Enterprise AI, BI and Data that facilitate the time to market for reporting, analytics and data science teams to run experiments, train models and generate insights as well as evolve and run the CoCounsel application and its shared capability of CoCounsel AI Assistant.

The Enterprise Data Platform aims to provide self service capabilities for fast and secure ingestion and consumption of data across Thomson Reuters.

At Thomson Reuters, we are recruiting a team of motivated Cloud professionals to transform how we build, manage and leverage our data assets. The Data Platform team in Bangalore is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for engineering cloud-based data platform systems.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as Lead Software Engineer, you will:      

• Design and Develop large scale data intelligence solutions around the Snowflake Data Lake. Build ETL pipelines in and out of data warehouse using combination of Python and Snowflakes Snow SQL, Performance tuning, Compute, Storage and implement CI/CD.
• Mentor and lead team members in implementation of our advanced technology solutions for the data lake warehouse and surrounding functionality.
• Be a thought leader investigating leading edge technology for data lake warehouse software and systems functionality. 
• Innovate with new approaches to meeting data management requirements.
• Partner across the company with analytics teams, architects, engineering managers to design and get consensus on solutions that meet business requirements.
• Effectively communicate and liaise with other data management teams embedded across the organization and data consumers in data science and business analytic groups. 
• Utilize your experience in the following areas: 
  • AWS Cloud Data practices and DevOps tooling
  • Data Warehousing, Modelling and Management
  • Data Management and Data warehousing processing capabilities
  • Metadata Repositories, Information & Data Catalogs
  • Data governance as it applies to security and privacy
  • Master Data platform capabilities
  • Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance

About You:

You're a fit for the role of Lead Software Engineer, if you have demonstrated expertise of 8+ years with: 

• 10 years of relevant experience in crafting Database and Data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS).
• Solid experience in designing and implementing a fully operational production grade large scale data solution on Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse/Lake.
• In depth experience in Data integration services which are APIs built using python, to pull data from multiple sources & Data Transformation services where they operate on the data transform and build facts and dims which can be consumed by BI tools.
• Agile development cadence
• SQL, Data Modelling (Data Vault is a plus) and Data Warehousing fundamentals.
• Data Integration tools: DBT, Informatica, Snowpipe, etc.
• AWS services and management, including Serverless, Container, Queueing and Monitoring services
• Programming languages: Python, PySpark, Java, JavaScript
• Data interchange formats: Parquet, JSON, CSV, Avro
• Software development practices such as version control via Git, CI/CD, and Release management
• Cloud security and compliance, privacy, GDPR
• Intermediate understanding of Big Data technologies.
• At least one Business Intelligence tools such as PowerBI (nice to have).
• Test Automation
• Web development: HTML, CSS, React
• Machine learning platforms, e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Automation and Operations of machine learning (SageMaker)
• Compute, Storage.
•  Mentor and lead team members in implementation of our advanced technology solutions for the data lake warehouse and surrounding functionality.
• Innovate with new approaches to meeting data governance/management requirements.
• Partner across the organization with analytics teams, architects, engineering managers to design and get consensus on solutions that meet business requirements.
• Effectively communicate and liaise with other data management teams embedded across the organization and data consumers.
• Utilize your experience in the following areas: 
• AWS Cloud Data practices
•  Data Warehousing and Management capabilities
• Metadata Repositories, Information & Data Catalogs
• Data governance as it applies to security and privacy 
•  Master Data platform capabilities
• Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• 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.

• Social Impact:  Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

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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