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This role operates as a forward-deployed solution architect and engineer, partnering closely with teams to identify opportunities, design end-to-end architectures, and drive implementations to production.\nYou will own solution design from concept through deployment, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and extensible. You will evaluate emerging AI technologies, define repeatable patterns, and help build new capabilities through hands-on implementation, mentorship, and shared standards.\nAbout the Role:\nSolution Architecture and Delivery\nIdentify high-impact opportunities to apply AI automation and intelligent agents across CIO technology teams.\nDesign end-to-end AI solutions, including workflows, integration patterns, data flows, and operational considerations.\nGuide implementation from prototype to production, ensuring solutions meet reliability, security, and compliance expectations.\nDefine reusable architectural patterns and reference designs to enable broader adoption across teams.\nBuild scalable pipelines to collect and analyze inference- and workflow-level telemetry, integrating with TR's data backbone.\nDevelop dashboards and reports providing clear visibility into performance, reliability, safety, and cost.\nEnsure compliance with TR's AI standards for monitoring, governance, privacy, 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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.\nCareer 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.\nIndustry 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.\n 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.\n 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.\nMaking 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.\nAbout Us\nThomson 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.\nWe 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.\nAs a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. 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