Senior Data Platform Engineer

Refinitiv; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by combining trusted content and technology to empower professionals with data and insights. This Senior Data Platform Engineer role focuses on building scalable data pipelines and backend services for large-scale document data, ensuring secure data handling and regulatory compliance.

You will mentor engineers, lead migrations, and partner with ML teams to enable model training and inference at scale in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years focused on data platforms or backend infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake).
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Python, Java, C++, or Go) and scalable API design.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL data modeling and query optimization.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with data compliance and secure data handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize pipelines that ingest, transform, and distribute large-scale document data.
• Build and maintain backend services for document storage, retrieval, and processing.
• Implement data governance, privacy controls, audit trails, and regulatory compliance like GDPR.
• Lead database migrations and improve schema design, query performance, and data scalability.
• Partner with ML/AI teams to support model training and inference at scale.
• Mentor engineers on architecture, practices, and system design.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

APIs design

SQL/NoSQL data modeling

Cloud platforms

Regulatory compliance

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Snowflake

Python

Java

Go

Job description

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Noetica is an AI-native legal technology company, now part of Thomson Reuters, that transforms complex corporate transaction data into structured, searchable market intelligence. Its platform helps legal and finance professionals analyze deal terms, identify market trends, and assess risk with greater speed and confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize pipelines that ingest, transform, and distribute large-scale document data.
• Build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services for document storage, retrieval, and processing.
• Implement data governance, privacy controls, audit trails, and regulatory compliance requirements, including GDPR.
• Lead database migrations and improve schema design, query performance, and data scalability.
• Partner with machine learning and AI teams to support model training and inference at scale.
• Mentor engineers on platform architecture, engineering practices, and system design.

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years focused on data platforms, backend infrastructure, or related systems.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, data warehousing, or large-scale data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Snowflake.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, or Go, and experience designing scalable APIs.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with data compliance, privacy regulations, or secure data handling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in legal technology, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
• A record of leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with real-time data processing and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
• Familiarity with machine learning pipelines and feature engineering platforms.
• Coding in Python

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.

In the United States

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.

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. Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at [e-mail]. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more about how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

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