Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering – Tax & Audit

Thomson Reuters; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Mental health days

Headspace app access

401k with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

ThomsonReuters in the United States seeks a Lead Engineer to guide production AI solutions for tax and audit clients. You will hire, coach and grow senior engineers, oversee engagements from prototypes to multi-month implementations, and own delivery quality and client outcomes.

You’ll provide technical leadership across architecture, cost estimates and risk controls for RAG, AI agents, and prompt engineering while building scalable teams and collaborating with business partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or technical consulting with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience delivering client-facing engineering in consulting or professional services.
• Led teams shipping LLM-powered production applications and can explain tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop a senior engineering team, owning hiring, coaching and career growth.
• Own staffing, capacity planning and delivery forecasting across engagements.
• Provide technical leadership for production AI solutions and cost/risk reviews.
• Own delivery health and client outcomes across engagements.

Skills

Team leadership

Staffing & capacity planning

LLM production experience

AI engineering practices

AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copil

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Job Description Lead the engineering team delivering production AI solutions for public accounting firms and corporate tax departments at ThomsonReuters. You will hire and develop senior technical talent, build the right team for each client engagement, and oversee delivery from rapid prototypes to complex, multi-month AI implementations. This role combines engineering people leadership, client delivery ownership and deep technical judgment in production AI, with accountability for team capacity, solution quality and client outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead and develop a senior engineering team of engagement leads, AI engineers and integration engineers, owning hiring, coaching, performance management and career development.
• Own staffing, capacity planning and delivery forecasting across client engagements, matching skills and availability to demand, maintaining capacity for pre‑sales prototypes and addressing resource gaps before they affect delivery.
• Provide technical leadership for production AI solutions, reviewing architecture, scope, estimates and operating costs across retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, tool integrations and prompt and context engineering.
• Set standards for AI quality, evaluation and risk controls, including reference datasets, expert review, regression testing, accuracy thresholds and safeguards appropriate for regulated tax and audit work.
• Own delivery health and client outcomes across engagements, managing scope, risk, quality and client satisfaction while serving as the escalation point for clients and internal teams.
• Improve engineering effectiveness through AI‑enabled development, embedding AI coding tools, automated testing, evaluation pipelines and reusable solutions into team workflows.
• Partner with business, product, consulting and platform leaders to align demand with capacity, resolve competing priorities, support transitions into ongoing support and report on utilization, throughput and forecast accuracy.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technical consulting, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, with demonstrated success hiring, developing and retaining senior engineers.
• Ownership of client‑facing engineering delivery in consulting, professional services or a comparable environment, including staffing, resource allocation, utilization and capacity forecasting.
• Experience leading teams that shipped LLM‑powered applications into production, with the ability to explain architecture, implementation decisions, operating costs and technical tradeoffs.
• Hands‑on experience with modern AI engineering practices, including RAG, agentic workflows, function calling or Model Context Protocol (MCP), evaluation frameworks and observability.
• Daily use of AI coding tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, and experience establishing team workflows around them.
• Ability to assess and address AI risks in regulated environments, including hallucinations, data leakage, prompt injection and audit‑trail integrity.
• Demonstrated technical decision‑making, people development, delivery prioritization and stakeholder communication, including managing expectations and resolving escalations with senior client executives and internal leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in tax, audit, accounting or financial services.
• Experience managing engineering leads or managers.
• Experience scaling engineering teams while maintaining hiring quality and delivery standards.
• Background in forward‑deployed engineering, solutions engineering or embedded client delivery.

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

• flexible vacation
• two company‑wide Mental Health Days off
• access to the Headspace app
• retirement savings
• tuition reimbursement
• employee incentive programs
• 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process

ThomsonReuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt‑out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

Benefits in the United States

• market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
• competitive 401k plan with company match
• competitive vacation
• sick and safe paid time off
• paid holidays (including two company mental health days off)
• parental leave
• sabbatical leave
• optional hospital insurance paid 100% by the employee
• optional life insurance paid 100% by the employee
• 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
• access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Compensation

ThomsonReuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: NewYorkCity, SanFrancisco, LosAngeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC.

The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $136,000 USD - $253,000 USD.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD.

For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD.

Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

ThomsonReuters 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 ThomsonReuters, 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.

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