Principal Engineer - ONESOURCE Income Tax
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$159k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical vision and strategy for the ONESOURCE Income Tax portfolio.
- Define architecture patterns, engineering standards, and best practices for current and future applications.
- Guide modernization of legacy enterprise applications and infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
- Design agentic AI architectures and expand existing Model Context Protocol server capabilities.
- Lead secure design practices, penetration-test remediation patterns, Snyk standards, SOC audit support, and compliance controls.
- Lead complex, high-risk initiatives, development reviews, technology selection, and adoption across teams.
- Represent engineering and negotiate technical solutions with Product, Security, the Product Management Office, program managers, and senior leadership.
- Present technical strategy to executives, managers, engineers, and developers.
- Mentor Senior and Lead engineers and strengthen engineering culture across teams.
- Partner on multiple projects, cross-business initiatives, standards, patents, and innovation opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant senior, lead, or principal-level technical leadership experience.
- Strong experience with .NET/C#, Angular, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP for applications and infrastructure.
- Proven experience designing and evolving large, high-availability enterprise applications and modernizing legacy systems.
- Strong application-security and secure-software-design experience, including Snyk or similar tools, penetration testing, remediation, and secure coding standards.
- Familiarity with SOC audits and the engineering controls and evidence required for compliance.
- Experience setting technical direction, defining standards, and guiding teams through influence without direct management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience working with Product, Security, program management, and senior leadership.
- Business judgment and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Preferred qualifications include software or solutions architecture experience, tax/accounting/finance or another regulated-domain background, agentic AI or LLM experience, MCP server experience, GCP data warehousing and Looker experience, Terraform or CloudFormation experience, external-customer API governance, relevant cloud or security certifications, and industry contributions or mentoring experience.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, Grow My Way programming, and skills-first development opportunities.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- US benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off.
- Two paid volunteer days annually plus opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
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About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.