Position: - Senior Architect
 
Our Company
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Our Financial & Risk business provides solutions to the global financial community – delivering critical news, information and analytics, enabling transactions and connecting communities of trading, investing, financial and corporate professionals. Financial & Risk serves more than 40,000 customers and 400,000 end-users across the world. 
Thomson Reuters is the market’s largest operator of FX trading venues, with daily volumes of approximately $350bio. In Fixed Income (FI), Thomson Reuters is a majority owner of Tradeweb Markets LLC, a leading electronic market operator. Tradeweb’s network of more than 50 dealers supply liquidity to over 2,000 institutional investors in 50 countries, with daily trading volumes of over $250bio.
 
Summary
Thomson Reuters is currently developing a next generation platform for the transactions businesses. This leading edge platform will provide our company with high performance transactions capabilities for the next decade and beyond. As a result of the above, Thomson Reuters is currently looking for an exceptional individual who is highly motivated, high performing and a world class technologist. The successful candidate will join a global architecture team and realize the platform vision. The successful candidate will be able to effectively combine long-term strategic vision with hands-on, practical software design, problem solving strengths and leadership skills to help bring about a wide reaching and historic evolution in electronic trading platforms.
 
Job Responsibilities

• Be an evangelist for the platform-approach to delivering transactions systems
• Ensure our open platforms remain secure in a challenging, hostile environment
• Drive the highest levels of quality and service that customers demand
• Align technology direction to the wider development organisation
• Promote enterprise reuse of technology components
• Understand and review current system architecture
• Take accountability for the design of future system architectures and transition paths from current system
• Take accountability for designs for high performance, scalable and low latent systems
• Understand industry trends and ensure new system designs exploit emerging technologies
• Review of customer environments and design integration; e.g. data and workflow modelling
• Lead the design of operational environments
• Ensure design patterns and best practices are communicated to and effectively adopted by development teams
• Be accountable to ensure all strategic code development adheres to architecture design and guidelines
• Communicate and win support from senior stakeholders for business-impacting technology decisions
• Be the driver of efficiency initiatives: Collaborate with development, QA, Application support and Infrastructure managers to improve the operational efficiency of the organization
• Demonstrate world class technical excellence / lead by example

 
Required Skills 

• Effective collaboration and influence across organizational boundaries
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Design and architecture of systems and software components
• Strong verbal and written communications.
• Demonstrated track record architecting systems for quality, scalability, extensibility and security
• Experience in information security
• Experience in building high availability systems

 
Experience with the following a plus:

• Formal requirements analysis and architecture modeling methodologies and tools
• Experience delivering Cloud-type services
• Agile / rapid application development methodologies
• Real time systems
• Big data
• High performance messaging infrastructures
• Financial markets and trading systems