Vice President, Technology - M&A Integration

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

2d•$171,000 - $366,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Vice President, Technology – M&A Integration to lead the technology strategy and execution for complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and separation initiatives. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring a senior technology executive with deep technical expertise, strong commercial judgment and a proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs. The successful candidate will partner closely with Technology leadership, business stakeholders and the M&A Integration Management Office to shape and execute technology strategies that enable growth and successful deal outcomes. You’ll also partner closely with Labs Ventures – Thomson Reuters’ internal product incubation engine – to build and scale AI and agentic solutions across the M&A lifecycle and lead the AI-driven reimagination of how M&A is executed at Thomson Reuters. You will join Thomson Reuters' M&A integration and separation organization — a fast-paced, high-performing team at the center of enterprise transformation. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity – combining your technology experience with being at the forefront of seeing AI development driven by startups and larger corporates and how to make it successful. You will provide strategic leadership across executive, business and technology teams, helping translate deal objectives into executable technology plans and action.

Requirements

Deep technology leadership experience
Commercial acumen
Ability to influence at the most senior levels of an organization
Hands-on architecture depth, proven ability to design and assess large-scale, cloud-native systems, judging scalability, resilience, security, and technical debt.
Hands-on experience building or evaluating agentic and LLM-based systems, from RAG and orchestration to the MLOps/LLMOps that gets models to production.
Deep technical expertise and being able to interrogate a target's codebase, architecture, security, and DevOps maturity, and judge whether the engineering org can scale post-close.
Ability to build credibility with senior technologists, engineering leaders and business executives.
Commercial / business acumen, understanding what is needed to support growth, revenue expansion and operational efficiency.
Ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels, from deeply technical teams to executive leadership.
Ability to synthesize input from multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts into clear, concise and actionable recommendations.
M&A Due Diligence, integration and separation experience
Acts as a change agent, driving continuous improvement, operational excellence and enterprise-wide transformation.
Leads large, complex, multi-year programs with clarity, structure and accountability.
Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent priorities.
Uses judgment, experience and data to make timely decisions in ambiguous or complex situations.
Influences effectively across stakeholder groups, builds trust and earns followership.
Drives alignment and consensus while maintaining momentum and focus on outcomes.
Adapts communication and leadership style to work effectively with technical experts, business leaders and executive stakeholders.
Leads with empathy, transparency and resilience through periods of change.
Takes ownership, acts with urgency and holds self and others accountable for results.

Responsibilities

Lead the technology assessments of potential acquisition M&A targets and help deliver on tech integration and M&A separation aspects
Evaluate acquired AI/ML systems, data pipelines and model governance, and complexities involved in integrating AI platform solutions
Partner with product, technology and business leaders across Thomson Reuters to understand priorities, assess impacts and align technology strategies with business objectives.
Provide strategic and technical guidance to senior management, business technology teams and functional organizations.
Demonstrate executive presence when presenting to Thomson Reuters executives, customers, partners and external stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership in assessing integration complexity, technology risks, cost estimates and synergy opportunities associated with potential acquisitions or separations.
Drive alignment across stakeholders to ensure technology decisions support deal value, operational continuity and long-term scalability.
Identify technology risks, dependencies and trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations to support timely executive decision-making.