Senior Solution Architect
Job Description
As a Senior Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in delivering Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE-our industry-leading corporate tax and e-invoicing platform-to multinational clients across Greater China. You will serve as the primary technical and functional consultant, bridging the gap between customer business requirements and technical solution delivery. Combining deep Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration experience with tax and e-invoicing domain expertise, you will lead end-to-end implementations, partner with distributed delivery teams, and help top-tier organizations modernize and automate their tax compliance processes.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as a Senior Solution Architect, you will:
- Drive Client Workshops & Requirements Gathering: Lead business and functional requirements workshops with customer tax, finance, and IT stakeholders to understand their current processes and business objectives.
- Lead Solution Architecture & Gap Analysis: Perform detailed gap analyses between customer processes and ONESOURCE capabilities, designing target operating models and end-to-end integration architectures.
- Author Technical & Functional Specifications: Develop clear, comprehensive documentation covering integration architecture, data flows, ERP connectivity, and configuration parameters.
- Configure & Integrate Systems: Configure ONESOURCE applications and partner with technical consultants to ensure seamless integration with customer ERP systems (such as SAP or Oracle) and local Chinese tax solutions.
- Manage Testing & Quality Assurance: Design and execute comprehensive test strategies, test cases, and validation scripts to ensure robust data flow and accurate tax determination.
- Deliver Go-Live & Post-Implementation Support: Provide expert troubleshooting, cutover support, and advisory during go-live phases to ensure smooth transitions and high customer satisfaction.
- Enable Users & Share Best Practices: Develop and deliver end-user training, empowering customer teams to maximize the value of their software investment.
- Collaborate Across Global Teams: Partner seamlessly with remote delivery teams, product management, and professional services leadership to resolve complex technical challenges.
- Support Pre-Sales & Practice Growth: Provide domain expertise for pre-sales engagements, client onboarding, and develop reusable delivery assets to enhance team scalability.
Required Qualifications
You are an ideal fit for the Senior Solution Architect role if your experience includes:
- 10+ years of enterprise software implementation and consulting experience focused on tax automation, compliance, or finance systems for multinational clients.
- Proven track record leading end-to-end ERP implementations, with a solid functional understanding of SAP or Oracle finance and accounting workflows.
- Hands-on experience integrating Chinese enterprise tax and e-invoicing platforms (such as Golden Tax System, SAP, Oracle, Baiwang Cloud, Aisino, Yonyou, or Kingdee).
- Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex data flow and integration issues.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and consulting skills, with fluency in English and Chinese to engage effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% for on-site customer engagements, with flexibility for business cutover requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical development experience in SAP (ABAP), Oracle tools, Java, or .NET environments.
- Professional accounting or taxation credentials (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CA) or relevant enterprise software certifications.
- Experience delivering projects within a hybrid model, balancing on-site customer engagement with remote/offshore technical delivery teams.
What’s in it For You?
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.
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.
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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