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.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Software Development Manager, you will:
- Develop and execute tactical and long-term technical strategy aligned with the organizations 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 projects 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:
Youre 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
- Bachelors or Masters 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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Whats in it For You
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, 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 caf 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.
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