Software Engineer, Legislation (1 Year Contrct)

Thomson Reuters; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way policy

Career development and growth

Industry competitive benefits

Culture of inclusion and belonging

Social impact initiatives

Making a real-world impact

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Software Engineer (Legislation) in Australia for a 1-year contract to modernise and migrate TimeBase content and related systems. You will contribute to cloud-based infrastructure improvements, SSO/configuration, and observability efforts while working with a global team.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and experience with data/CRM migrations, multi-timezone collaboration, and strong documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology (or equivalent practical experience).
• Able to work independently while collaborating closely with a small, distributed team across time zones (Australia, and globally distributed Thomson Reuters teams).
• Strong written communication — comfortable documenting technical decisions and explaining them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating with evolving scope and multiple concurrent workstreams, and prioritising pragmatically.
• Solid hands-on software development experience, ideally including data migration, system integration, or platform consolidation projects.
• Experience with cloud migration work — moving applications/data from on-premises or third party hosted environments into a cloud platform.
• Experience with data and/or CRM migration (e.g. migrating data out of a legacy CRM such as Capsule into a new platform).

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Time Base maintenance and development activities with TimeBase team and partners.
• Support migration and modernization of TimeBase content in TR systems and Westlaw.
• Assist with source code migration from TimeBase to TR tooling, and Jira→ADO migration.
• Support data and CRM migration and validate systems before legacy decommissioning.
• Contribute to TimeBase cloud/infrastructure migration and evaluate on-prem vs cloud environments.
• Modernise a Perl 5.8 system to the latest Perl.
• Support platform and identity work including SSO and Datadog monitoring.
• Document TimeBase capabilities and architecture; produce migration runbooks and handover notes.
• Participate in status updates and flag risks early.

Skills

Data migration

Cloud migration

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Datadog

Capsule CRM

Xero

Job description

Software Engineer, Legislation (1 Year Contrct)

Are you an experienced software developer with a passion for developing and leveraging data focused cloud and AI based technologies to transform large scale online professional information systems?

Join our team as a software engineer (Legislation) and use your expertise and passion for developing information systems to maintain, modernise and improve our technologies for publishing and AI focused legislation on TimeBase and Westlaw.

Key Responsibilities

In this opportunity as a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for

• Work with the TimeBase technical team and the broader, globally distributed Technology, Product, and delivery partners to plan and execute Time Base maintenance and development activities
• Support migration and modernization of TimeBase content in Thomson Reuters content systems and Westlaw applications and related cloud-based platforms and services
• Assist with source code migration from TimeBase repositories into TR-managed tooling, and support the Jira → Azure DevOps (ADO) migration
• Support data and CRM migration work (e.g. Capsule CRM and Xero data moving into TR systems) and help validate systems ahead of legacy decommissioning
• Contribute to the TimeBase cloud/infrastructure migration — assessing current on-prem and third party and cloud environments and helping migrate them to TR-hosted infrastructure
• Modernisation of a Perl 5.8 system to the latest Perl
• Support platform and identity work such as SSO/SSO configuration, monitoring/observability (e.g. Datadog), and compliance requirements including Australian data residency
• Take part in technical discovery sessions with internal teams and external delivery partners to help document TimeBase's current technical capabilities and architecture
• Produce clear technical documentation, migration runbooks, and handover notes to support knowledge transfer as legacy systems are retired
• Attend regular check-ins and status updates with local technical experts and the broader project teams; flag risks, blockers, and dependencies early

Required Qualifications

You are an ideal fit for the Software Engineer role if your experience includes

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology (or equivalent practical experience)
• Able to work independently while collaborating closely with a small, distributed team across time zones (Australia, and globally distributed Thomson Reuters teams)
• Strong written communication — comfortable documenting technical decisions and explaining them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating with evolving scope and multiple concurrent workstreams, and prioritising pragmatically
• Solid hands-on software development experience, ideally including data migration, system integration, or platform consolidation projects
• Experience with cloud migration work — moving applications/data from on-premises or third party hosted environments into a cloud platform
• Experience with data and/or CRM migration (e.g. migrating data out of a legacy CRM such as Capsule into a new platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SSO/identity integration and enterprise security or data residency requirements
• Background in legal, publishing, or content-heavy platforms (Westlaw, Lexis or similar legal research/content systems is a strong plus)
• Exposure to observability/monitoring tooling (e.g. Datadog)
• Experience working alongside external delivery vendors/contractors on a shared codebase or migration plan
• This will be a one-year contractor position

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.

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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.