Manager, Software Development Engineering

As a Manager, Software Development Engineering at Thomson Reuters, you will lead multiple teams of engineers in delivering scalable, high-quality technology solutions that align with business strategy and customer needs. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration to drive successful execution across the full software development lifecycle.

You will partner closely with product management, UX design, stakeholders, and Technical Operations to deliver impactful software solutions, improve engineering processes, and build a high-performing, inclusive team. This is an excellent opportunity for a leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical guidance, while developing talent and driving operational excellence.

About the Role

Technical Leadership

• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams across multiple initiatives, projects, and releases.
• Provide technical leadership in software design, architecture, debugging, testing, and performance optimization.
• Evaluate new technologies and contribute to technical and architectural decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategy, roadmap, priorities, and execution.
• Removing blockers and support projects lead to ensure successful delivery across multiple products or initiatives.
• Guide teams in building enhancements within existing architecture and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Drive engineering best practices to deliver scalable, secure, high-performance, and repeatable solutions.
• Oversee end-to-end software development lifecycle activities, including support and maintenance releases, minor enhancements, and major product initiatives.
• Analyze and improve systems capacity, performance, operational health, and service lifecycle management.
• Promote reusable frameworks, consistent patterns, and process improvements across engineering teams.
• Manage project, program, or product budgets within area of responsibility, as needed.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, industry trends, and competitive products.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop teams of Software Development Engineers across varying experience levels.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, performance management, feedback, and career development.
• Set clear goals and expectations aligned to team objectives and OKRs.
• Build a high-performing team focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Foster an inclusive, customer-aware culture that values diversity, wellbeing, and professional growth.
• Identify development opportunities, address underperformance appropriately, and help team members reach their potential.

About you

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of engineering management experience leading multiple teams.
• Proven success delivering complex, scalable, and reliable software solutions, including distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, systems design, design patterns, and software engineering best practices.
• Experience leading multiple teams through the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional technical projects from planning through execution.
• Strong technical leadership and people leadership capabilities, including coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers.
• Experience driving engineering excellence across scalability, security, reliability, testing, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams.
• Experience with microservices, Docker, Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and automated testing practices.
• Working knowledge of performance optimization, capacity planning, operational health, and service lifecycle management.
• Ability to adapt quickly, lead through change, and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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