Associate Solutions Architect

Is your passion platform engineering? Are you interested in envisioning and building the core services that underpin all Thomson Reuters products? Then we want you on our team!

This role is in the Platform Engineering organization, where we build the foundational capabilities on which Thomson Reuters runs. Our team is responsible for the Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) Platform, a consolidated identity system designed to securely manage customer authentication and coarse-grained authorization for users and services accessing any product or service offered by Thomson Reuters. CIAM is meant to consolidate and replace the many disparate, disconnected and custom-developed identity systems at Thomson Reuters with a common, highly-secure, highly-available, cloud- and standards-based, vendor-managed solution.

This role will be a key leader as we build a new team in Bangalore, India.

About the Role

As an Associate Architect you will:

• Work with technologies like:
• AWS and Azure public cloud
• Identity platforms (Auth0, Ping Identity, Microsoft Azure AD B2C, etc.) and identity standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, etc.)
• Java and/or .NET Core
• Be a Technical Leader:
• Create and oversee the architectural design & principles for CIAM
• When and where appropriate, be hands-on in terms of implementing POCs and solutions
• Mentor to other engineers inside and outside the team
• Establish best practices; provide tooling that makes compliance frictionless
• Be collaborative:
• Communicate and convey the CIAM architecture to outside architects
• Demonstrate and model transparency and collaboration with teams across the company
• Provide technical leadership in CIAM across TR
• Be curious and innovative:
• Keep up-to-date with emerging cloud technology trends, especially in Identity & Access Management.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Associate Architect if you have:

Basic qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering with Java, .NET, or similar languages.
• Experience developing REST APIs.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications and services on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex technical issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with a major Identity Provider such as ForgeRock, Ping, Okta, or Auth0 for Workforce or Customer Identity and Access Management, and related experience with the OAuth2, OIDC, SAML and SCIM standards.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD tools using CloudFormation, TerraForm or GitOps.