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.

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.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way policies help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and skill development to help you grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive plans including flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and wellbeing resources.
• Culture: Globally recognized for inclusion, belonging, and work-life balance.
• Social Impact: Opportunities to make an impact with two paid volunteer days annually and pro-bono consulting projects.
• Making a Real-World Impact: Help us uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, and provide trusted, unbiased information.

Compensation and Benefits

In the United States, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and a 401k plan with company match. 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. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus.

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. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries.

Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation in the recruiting process, please contact [email protected].