Lead Software Engineer

Title:Lead Software Engineer
ID:TEC00028232

Description

Primary Objective(s)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking, and self motivated senior level engineer to join the Elite Business Development product development team. A good candidate should have a passion for and experience with Web/UI technologies. A strong understanding of the .NET framework, Web/UI technologies, and C# is required. One key responsibility is creating detailed technical designs using best practices from high level designs, and then implementing them with little help. The majority of development is going to be .NET development with C#.

Elite Business Development, part of the Elite business within Thomson Reuters, is the leading provider of marketing and business development IT solutions for law firms and other professional services organizations. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver a comprehensive set of solutions including Web communications, relationship and contact management, experience management as well as proposal generation. Today, more than 300 organizations worldwide, including NLJ 250, AmLaw 100 and Global 50 law firms, trust Elite solutions to provide the tools they need to succeed

Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop technology and applications using the .NET Framework.
- Play a key role in the complete software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, coding, unit testing and debugging, and documentation.
- Design and develop the presentation layer across multiple products.
- Participate in product requirement and design reviews with product managers and other engineers.
- Perform in a team-lead role effectively managing multiple priorities for a team of software developers.
- Facilitate and guide initiatives for improving development processes.
- Perform mentoring and peer reviews.
- Responsible for designing and implementing applications based on a varying degree of functional specifications.
- Be able to quickly adapt to new technologies and processes.
- Work in a test-driven development environment.
- Develop time-estimates for work assignments.
- Accurately determine, assign, track and manage project task, activity, documentation, time information per internal standards.
- Understand high level business requirements and produce technical specifications, designs and architectures.
- Work with other teams members effectively and with minimal supervision.
- Lend support to various business and technology teams as necessary during design, development and delivery to ensure solid, scalable, robust solutions.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and skills

- BS or MS in computer science, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of enterprise software development experience.
- Microsoft .NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 experience (ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET) required.
- 2+ years experience with Web UI Technologies (Javascript, JQuery, YUI, HTML5, CSS, MVP, MVC.NET 3+, Telerik
- ASP .NET controls, and AJAX) a plus
- Experience with Test Driven Development and Unit Test Frameworks a plus
- Experience with CRM systems (MS Dynamics, SalesForce.com) a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Track record of superior performance.
- Comfortable with complex data structures and algorithms, and absorbing new technologies quickly.
- Passion to build great software.
- Experience with Visual Studio 2010.
- Comfortable writing SQL queries. Experience with SQL Server a plus.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

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According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2014 fiscal year (October 1, 2013-September 30, 2014).

Job: Technology Development
Primary Location: Chicago, IL, US
Other Locations: Boston,Massachusetts,United States
Organization: L LLF Hubbard One
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift:
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time