We are looking for a seasoned technical leader to head our AI Centre of Excellence and elevate our automation capabilities to enterprise-grade standards. As the AI & Automation Solutions Manager, you will be responsible for driving engineering excellence, implementing scalable DevOps practices, and delivering robust AI/Automation solutions. This role blends hands-on technical contribution with strategic leadership, enabling the transformation of innovative prototypes into reliable, maintainable, and secure enterprise solutions.
About the Role:
- Lead and mentor a team of AI/Automation developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the adoption of software engineering best practices including version control, clean code principles, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and manage multi-environment deployment strategies (Dev → UAT → QA → Prod) with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS and GCP, leveraging serverless technologies for flexibility and global reach.
- Establish robust logging, monitoring, and observability frameworks to support production-grade AI systems.
- Create reusable components, shared workflows, and configuration management practices to accelerate development and reduce technical debt.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, security, compliance, and governance to ensure alignment and enterprise readiness.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications and oversee solution design, development, and deployment.
- Actively contribute to development efforts, troubleshoot complex issues, and prototype emerging technologies to assess fit and value.
About You:
- Experience: 8+ years in software development; 3+ years in engineering management; 5+ years in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP); 3+ years in DevOps.
- Technical Skills: Proficient in Python, Java; familiar with AI/ML tools (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face); experience with UiPath, Langraph, AWS Agentcore, Google Agentspace, Crew.ai.
- Leadership: Proven ability to mentor teams, implement engineering standards, and drive productivity.
- Process Expertise: Skilled in CI/CD, automated testing, multi-environment deployments, and observability.
- Domain Knowledge: Understanding of AI/ML lifecycle, automation governance, and enterprise software delivery.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s in computer science or related field; AWS/GCP certifications; experience with monitoring tools like DataDog; knowledge of identity and access management systems.
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.Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
