Lead Software Engineer

We're seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our high performing and growing Indirect Tax team and play a key role in developing and maintaining a enterprise customer-facing reporting and analytics platform.

About the Role:

• Design, develop, and implement data models, ETL pipelines, and BI solutions using your expertise in data engineering.
• Translate complex technical requirements into efficient and scalable application code, ensuring alignment with cloud architecture principles.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product owners, business analysts, and quality assurance, to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Embrace a DevOps mindset, championing continuous integration and actively contributing to the improvement of our development processes.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring our platform meets customer SLAs and scales to handle large data volumes.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and demonstrate a passion for continuous learning and innovation in the data engineering space.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building production-ready ETL pipelines for data warehouses or operational data stores.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with relational databases like Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Netezza, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Proficient in Python development or similar programming languages, with a focus on creating robust and optimized code.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
• Experience with GCP data warehousing and ETL services.
• Experience with PySpark including the ability to debug performance bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in Linux and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with ETL orchestration tools (Airflow, Control-M, AWS Step Functions).
• Experience optimizing ETL code for high-volume data processing.
• You're a highly motivated self-starter who thrives in collaborative environments.
• You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to effectively convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You're passionate about continuous improvement, always seeking ways to enhance our solutions and processes.
• You embrace new technologies and challenges, demonstrating a desire to learn and grow.

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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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