Principal Enterprise Architect

**Principal Enterprise Architect**

You will join our CIO organization, a fast-paced, energetic, and high-performing team at the heart of Thomson Reuters. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape Enterprise Architecture at TR while collaborating with business stakeholders and other architecture teams while providing technical leadership and guidance of investment of technical capabilities at an enterprise level.

**About the Role**:
In this opportunity as a **Principal Enterprise Architect**, you will:

- Facilitate an architect community at Thomson Reuters by collaborating with architects to drive cohesion, standards, and architecture best practices at scale.
- Provide strategic and technical architectural guidance to senior management, business technology project teams and functional organizations.
- Guides teams in defining the future state of end-to-end architectures, platforms, products, tools, and solutions to advance capabilities in the business.
- Actively engages the vendor community to understand the market, identify products that can support TR’s mission, conduct proof of concept evaluations, facilitate sourcing processes, and successfully integrate new technologies into the estate and support operations.
- Participates in and contributes to thought leadership and strategic direction during team meetings and executive workshops.
- Participate in our Technology Standards & Governance committee to influence and ensure the appropriate levels of governance are in place.
- Prepares strategic updates and vision documents, briefings, and reports and demonstrates excellent communication skills and executive presence in presentations to TR executives, customers, and partners.
- Contributes to and influences the technical strategies associated with a potential acquisition or divestiture.

**Behaviours and Ways of Working**:

- Experience acting as a change agent, driving continuous improvement and excellence.
- Experience leading large, transformational, multi-year programs within a complex, matrix environment.
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-changing, and innovative environment.
- Demonstrates the ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid, complex decisions.
- Ability to influence others, earn followership, and drive consensus across different stakeholder groups.
- The ability to flex styles of work well with a range of personalities, from extremely technical to non-technical business leaders.
- Empathetic and effective change agent.
- Take ownership, acting with accountability and urgency.

**About You**

You’re a fit for the role of a **Principal Enterprise Architect** if your background includes:

- A minimum of 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience implementing a myriad of architecture patterns such as SOA, microservices, cloud modernization, infrastructure and DevOps
- Comfortable at all levels of an organization with the ability to communicate clearly.
- A deep and fundamental technology heritage that will gain the respect of the top architecture technologists within TR and across the broader industry.
- AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI certified or relevant industry experience.

**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 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**: Eight 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.
- DIS