Job Description
**This Data Engineer position requires work to be performed onsite full time in the Crystal City, VA location.**
As a Data Engineer, you will support the implementation of internal and external data-enabled solutions for Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS). This role requires hands-on technical expertise in the cleaning, integration, extraction, analysis, and delivery of structured and unstructured data. You will collaborate closely with teams across the technology organization, including Product Development, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Business Development. The role also includes direct customer engagement to implement and support existing and new applications at customer locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with internal teams and customer technology staff to implement and support custom TRSS client solutions and Proofs of Concept (POCs).
- Design, build, and support data pipelines and workflows that improve the usability and efficiency of internal and external data sets.
- Support and continuously improve internal processes, including opportunities for robotic process automation.
- Provide solution architecture support for business opportunities.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to leadership regarding customer technology requirements and infrastructure.
- Understand and interpret unique client requirements and missions and develop custom solutions to integrate TRSS content into client applications.
- Support customer-facing implementations and provide technical support for deployed solutions.
- Collaborate across Product Development, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Business Development teams.
Required Qualifications
- Several years of data engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience implementing and customizing technical solutions, preferably for government clients.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages, particularly Python and SQL.
- Experience with RESTful web services and modern data communication technologies.
- Experience connecting to and querying relational and document-oriented databases.
- Comfortable working in both GUI and command-line environments using Linux and Windows.
- Understanding of common data structures and formats, including flat files, XML, JSON, and graph structures.
- Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, including AWS.
- Strong technical, analytical, and communication skills.
- Self-starter with a results-oriented approach and strong personal work ethic.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and adapt to dynamic and changing requirements.
- Strong ethical and professional standards.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a national security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of network troubleshooting techniques and communication protocols.
- Experience with information retrieval and storage technologies such as AWS Glue and Snowflake.
- Experience working with connected data and graph databases.
- Experience with workflow management tools; Apache NiFi experience is a plus.
- Understanding of public records and open-source data.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA) experience.
- Experience working in virtualized environments.
- Ability to stand up and configure local virtual machines and locally hosted web applications.
What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.
Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $94,000 USD - $175,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $82,000 USD - $152,200 USD.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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