Associate Enterprise Architect, Thomson Reuters

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Five years of experience in enterprise or IT architecture, with a focus on documenting current architectures, developing target architectures and roadmaps, and managing application and technology portfolios
• Five years of experience in a customer-facing role focused on translating customer needs into architecture standards and patterns
• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to iteratively enhance governance processes and define approaches with clear steps and deliverables
• Proficient in using GenAI-powered assistants, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, and citizen development
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging and influencing at all levels of the organization
• Ability to earn trust and drive consensus across different stakeholder groups

Desirable

• Based in Toronto, this role will be a member of the CIO organization's Enterprise Architecture team, established in October 2023
• As an Associate Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in empowering application teams to drive innovation while avoiding duplication of effort and ensuring alignment with organizational standards
• Thomson Reuters is transforming its operations and investing in cloud and generative AI initiatives to revolutionize the way professionals work
• As a member of our CIO Enterprise Architecture team, you'll play a key role in empowering application teams to drive innovation while ensuring alignment with organizational standards
• Your challenge will be to balance rapid feature implementation with essential governance processes, creating a seamless integration that enables teams to innovate at speed without compromising quality or security
• You'll develop streamlined processes, provide clear guidelines, and foster a culture of "smart governance" to accelerate our ability to deliver new features and adapt to changing market demands
• Enhance architecture transparency by working with application teams to document their architectures and technology stacks, and to understand their architecture challenges
• Create mechanisms to identify and report technical debt
• Facilitate the creation of architecture standards, converging tech stacks, focusing on cloud-modernization leveraging cloud-native technologies
• Foster the adoption of architecture standards by collaborating with product- and platform engineering architects to create application templates and leverage infrastructure as code
• Define and enhance ways of working, improving the maturity of enterprise architecture processes
• Build automated mechanisms using modern cloud technologies and Generative AI to automate architecture governance
• Facilitate architecture planning by collaborating with various application teams to define future architectures and roadmaps
• Support initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions by providing architectural expertise and continuously optimizing architecture mechanisms