Principal Engineer

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

1d•$158,900 - $295,100•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a Principal Engineer opportunity supporting the evolution of the ONESOURCE Platform and ONESOURCE AI organizations. 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth
Grow My Way programming
Industry Competitive Benefits
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan