Principal Engineer

Do you thrive in environments where your technical expertise can directly impact how the world's leading professionals access and utilize information?

This is a Principal Engineer opportunity supporting the evolution of the ONESOURCE Platform and ONESOURCE AI organizations.

Why This Role Matters

The ONESOURCE Platform serves as the foundation for multiple products across the portfolio. As a result, this role will have significant impact on platform strategy, architecture decisions, and the delivery of shared capabilities that enable innovation across the organization. The Principal Engineer will be responsible for identifying opportunities to modernize platforms, drive AI adoption, establish engineering standards, and coordinate technical solutions that span multiple products and business areas.

 

About the Role

In this position, you will:

• Serve as a Principal Engineer supporting both the ONESOURCE Platform and ONESOURCE AI organizations, helping drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering strategy across shared platform capabilities.
• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed systems and microservices-based architectures that support multiple products across the ONESOURCE portfolio.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders to develop scalable, secure, and reliable platform solutions.
• Drive architectural consistency, engineering excellence, and best practices across teams while ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Act as a senior technical advisor, providing guidance on complex technical challenges, modernization initiatives, cloud-native technologies, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Influence technical decision-making across multiple teams and organizations through collaboration, thought leadership, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Develop and champion platform standards, frameworks, and engineering patterns that improve software quality, maintainability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage AI and modern engineering approaches to accelerate innovation.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical initiatives that span multiple products, ensuring solutions are aligned, reusable, and strategically valuable to the broader platform ecosystem.
• Mentor and coach engineers and technical leaders, helping elevate technical capability, strengthen architectural practices, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership in solving ambiguous, business-critical problems and translating strategic objectives into actionable engineering solutions.
• Support the successful delivery of platform and AI initiatives by balancing technical excellence, business priorities, and customer impact.

About You

You’re an ideal fit if you have:

• Significant experience in software engineering, architecture, or platform engineering roles, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise applications.
• Deep expertise designing and building distributed systems , microservices architectures , and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience driving technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple teams, products, or business domains.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and solve highly ambiguous engineering challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, system scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, QA, UX, and Business teams.
• Demonstrated success influencing technical decisions without direct authority and driving alignment across organizations.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, best practices, frameworks, and governance models.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to mentor engineers and technical leaders, fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on enterprise platform products that serve multiple applications, product lines, or business units.
• Knowledge of modern cloud platforms and technologies such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, containers, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience developing or supporting AI/ML-powered products, services, or platforms .
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, API design, integration patterns, and modern software development methodologies.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives, including cloud transformation and platform evolution programs.
• Background working within large, matrixed, global organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical innovation with business priorities and customer needs.
• Passion for exploring emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to create value through AI and modern engineering practices.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate long-term business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong collaborator with exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments while leading through change.
• Effective coach and mentor who helps elevate the performance and growth of technical teams.
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and customer focus.
• Ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Continuous learner with a passion for innovation, engineering excellence, and technology leadership.

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

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.

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In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $158,900 USD - $295,100 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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.

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