Senior Data Platform Engineer - Hybrid & Impact

USA018 Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.; 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

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.