Associate Cloud Solutions Architect

We are currently seeking an associate cloud solutions architect who combines technical credentials and experience with a high degree of business acumen for a position within our infrastructure hosting and networks team, which provides a cloud center of excellence to the company. In this role, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to design and improve their cloud architectures and services at Thomson Reuters

About the Role

In this opportunity as Associate Solutions Architect, you will:

Leadership & Communication (30%)

• Collaborate with other Architects and Engineers building cloud solutions
• Collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to bring them up to the latest cloud architectures and solutions.
• Communicating risk assessments.
• Contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
• Provide recommendations to senior management.

?Strategy (20%)

• Make formal and informal technical presentations.
• Lead meetings.
• Establish and develop partnerships with strategic vendors.

Technology (40%)

• Establish, enhance and communicate cloud architecture, operating and tool chain best practices
• Develop reference architectures
• Work with various technology teams on architectural solutions to their business problem
• Promote benefits of software development utilizing Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Subject matter expert developing an approach and communicating the corresponding benefits of utilizing OCI and AWS or Azure to business units
• Understand and incorporate security best practices for the cloud, partnering with our internal security team.

?Financial Responsibility (10%)

• Provide financial analysis for technology decisions.
• Devise strategies and architectures to optimize consumption of cloud resources

About You

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

• Ability to collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices.
• Ability to contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to lead meetings.
• Effectively partner with and lead/influence BU project teams (architects and engineers) building cloud services.
• Technical understanding of cloud-native architecture, devops tools and practices.
• Experience building software following cloud native architecture methodologies a bonus.
• Extensive expertise working with AWS or Azure, OCI is a plus
• 8+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of relevant cloud experience.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science OR equivalent 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 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: 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.