Engineering Manager, Materia

Thomson Reuters • Toronto, ON

49d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this opportunity as Engineering Manager, you will: Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organization's goals, preparing the team for scalable growth. Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams. Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling. Facilitate strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives. Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements. Hiring and manage a team of skilled software developers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth project execution. Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 3+ years in a people leadership & product development leadership role.
• Ability to elaborate on/demonstrate experience bringing in transformations within process improvement and team development.
• Ability to identify and implement new technologies to improve upon product.
• Experience preforming software development with Python development stack.
• Experience preforming software development AWS cloud development stack.
• Experience with an Agile development process is required.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling.

Nice To Haves

• Experience preforming software development with one of the following frontend technologies is preferred but not required: React / Typescript / Tailwind.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organization's goals, preparing the team for scalable growth.
• Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams.
• Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives.
• Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively
• Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements.
• Hiring and manage a team of skilled software developers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.
• Influencing and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s)
• Socializing and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap
• Leading through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams
• Demonstrating people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams
• Ensuring team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s
• Setting goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress
• Leading multiple cross-functional - project teams
• Balanced strategic and tactical focus
• Excellent cross-functional influencer
• Evaluating new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors
• Applying knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.
• Managing building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.
• Displaying understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer.
• Applying critical, non-biased and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future
• Ranking the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally “important” and “urgent”, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees