Associate Enterprise Architect

Associate Enterprise Architect

Based in Toronto, this role will be a member of the CIO organization's Enterprise Architecture team, established in October 2023. As an Associate Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in empowering application teams to drive innovation while avoiding duplication of effort and ensuring alignment with organizational standards.

Thomson Reuters is transforming its operations and investing in cloud and generative AI initiatives to revolutionize the way professionals work. As a member of our CIO Enterprise Architecture team, you'll play a key role in empowering application teams to drive innovation while ensuring alignment with organizational standards. Your challenge will be to balance rapid feature implementation with essential governance processes, creating a seamless integration that enables teams to innovate at speed without compromising quality or security. You'll develop streamlined processes, provide clear guidelines, and foster a culture of "smart governance" to accelerate our ability to deliver new features and adapt to changing market demands.

About the Role

In this opportunity as an Associate Enterprise Architect, you will:

• Enhance architecture transparency by working with application teams to document their architectures and technology stacks, and to understand their architecture challenges
• Create mechanisms to identify and report technical debt
• Facilitate the creation of architecture standards, converging tech stacks, focusing on cloud-modernization leveraging cloud-native technologies
• Foster the adoption of architecture standards by collaborating with product- and platform engineering architects to create application templates and leverage infrastructure as code
• Define and enhance ways of working, improving the maturity of enterprise architecture processes
• Build automated mechanisms using modern cloud technologies and Generative AI to automate architecture governance
• Facilitate architecture planning by collaborating with various application teams to define future architectures and roadmaps
• Support initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions by providing architectural expertise and continuously optimizing architecture mechanisms

About You

You're a fit for the role of Associate Enterprise Architect if your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Five years of experience in enterprise or IT architecture, with a focus on documenting current architectures, developing target architectures and roadmaps, and managing application and technology portfolios
• Five years of experience in a customer-facing role focused on translating customer needs into architecture standards and patterns
• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to iteratively enhance governance processes and define approaches with clear steps and deliverables
• Proficient in using GenAI-powered assistants, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, and citizen development
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging and influencing at all levels of the organization
• Ability to earn trust and drive consensus across different stakeholder groups

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Proficient in agile methodologies and tools
• Skilled in migrating and transforming legacy customer solutions to cloud platforms
• Experienced in managing IT due diligence and integration planning for mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Familiar with product organizations and federated operating models

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What's 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.
• 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, 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 Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive 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.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• 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.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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