Architect Associate

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Job Summary: The Architect Associate will collaborate on governance and technical prioritization, aligning the technical backlog with product strategy and corporate standards. Key Highlights: 1. Collaborative governance and technical prioritization 2. Focus on aligning the technical backlog with corporate standards 3. Active participation in agile ceremonies and technical alignment Thomson Reuters combines human expertise, technology, and intelligence to deliver trusted answers that help professionals make confident decisions and better manage their businesses. We help professionals reinvent how they work — our team of experts brings together information, innovation, and insight to unravel complex situations across Tax, Trade, Accounting, and Legal markets, supporting our customers in making informed decisions. **About the Role** As an Architect Associate, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, engineering, SRE, and security teams — without responsibility for defining the target architecture — focusing instead on governance and technical prioritization within existing corporate standards. You will actively participate in agile ceremonies and technical alignment rituals. **Key Responsibilities:** * Identify, consolidate, and prioritize the technical backlog (refactorings, technical debt, performance improvements, security, resilience, observability, upgrades, migrations), aligned with product strategy and company SLAs. * Assess technical risks and impacts of not addressing backlog items; propose mitigation plans and sequencing. * Translate business requirements into technical needs and vice\-versa, facilitating dialogue among product, engineering, QA, SRE/Infra, and security teams. * Monitor technical and product metrics (performance, error rate, availability, cost, technical debt, lead time, DORA) to support prioritization and decision-making. * Keep stakeholders informed about priorities, justifications, risks, and trade\-offs. * Support teams in defining technical acceptance criteria, DoD/DoR, and quality policies. * Collaborate on modernization and integration initiatives — without defining architecture — ensuring adherence to corporate standards and compatibility with the current architecture. **About You** * Practical experience as a software developer (Java or Node.js) and sufficient front\-end knowledge (Angular or React) to discuss trade\-offs and review technical impacts. * Experience with the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban): planning, refinement, dailies, reviews, and retrospectives. * Knowledge of software architecture applied to analysis and prioritization (design patterns, microservices, APIs, DDD, event\-driven), without responsibility for defining architecture. * Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS): workload operations, cost management, basic security, observability, and resilience. * Familiarity with messaging and streaming systems (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka) to assess change impacts and technical dependencies. * Mastery of engineering principles: object orientation, SOLID, Clean Architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, and quality practices. * Strong communication and facilitation skills to align product, engineering, and partner teams; clear and concise documentation. Preferred Qualifications: * Advanced English for stakeholder communication and technical material reading. * Experience applying tactical and strategic DDD to technical backlog management. * Hands\-on experience with SRE/observability (metrics, logs, traces), performance tuning, and resilience. * Practice in cloud cost management and resource optimization. * Knowledge of application security (OWASP, secrets, IAM) and compliance. * Experience with technical governance tools and practices (evolutionary architecture, tech radar, technical OKRs). \#LI\-CA1 **What We Offer** * **Hybrid Work Model:** We adopt a hybrid and flexible work environment (2\-3 days per week in the office, depending on the role) for office\-based positions, ensuring an integrated and consistent experience both digitally and in person. * **Flexibility and Work\-Life Balance:** "Flex My Way" is a set of policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities — whether caring for family, participating in community activities, or dedicating time to rest and personal renewal. These policies are grounded in our flexible work approach, allowing employees to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, promoting an ideal balance between work and personal commitments. * **Professional Development and Growth:** We foster a culture of continuous learning and skill development, preparing our talent to tackle future challenges and deliver real solutions. Our "Grow My Way" program and skill\-centric approach ensure you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI\-enabled future. * **Competitive Industry Benefits:** We offer comprehensive benefit plans including medical and dental coverage, two corporate mental health holidays, performance\-based incentives, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. * **Culture:** Globally recognized for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, and work\-life balance. We live our values: obsession with our customers, competing to win, challenging (your/our) thinking, acting fast and learning fast, and being stronger together. * **Social Impact:** Make an impact in your community through our Social Impact Institute. We offer all employees two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities to engage in pro bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. * **Making a Real Impact in the World:** We are one of the few global companies helping our customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Working alongside the professionals and institutions we serve, we contribute to sustaining the rule of law, fostering commerce, detecting offenders, reporting facts, and delivering reliable, impartial information to people worldwide. **Who We Are** Thomson Reuters lights the way forward by bringing together trusted content and the technology people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals in legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media sectors. Our products combine highly specialized software and information to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions and help institutions pursue justice, truth, and transparency. The Reuters News Agency, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leader in journalism and trusted news. We rely on the talent of 26\.000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we remain committed to pursuing them. Interested? Join our team and help shape the industries driving societal progress. As a global company, we rely on the unique knowledge, perspectives, and experiences of all our employees to achieve our business goals. To ensure we can do so, we seek talented and qualified employees across all our global operations, regardless of race, color, sex/gender — including pregnancy — gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizenship status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Additionally, we provide accommodations for individuals with disabilities and those with sincerely held religious beliefs, in accordance with applicable law. You can find more information about how to request an accommodation here. Learn how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. For more information about Thomson Reuters, visit our website at thomsonreuters.com.