About the Role
Job Description Summary
Software Development Engineers are entry/mid-level professionals that design, build, develop and deploy software applications, tools, platforms and services that enable current and future needs of our customers.
A Software Development Engineer may assist their colleagues and more junior Software Development Engineer team members by solving problems, providing technical guidance, training and mentoring others. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills, an innovative mindset, the ability to solve complex problems and deep technical ability in software development programming within an agile environment will be key for success.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing product enhancements, creating and modifying PL/SQL packages, redesign of existing product functions, troubleshooting and resolving product defects, unit and integration testing. Active interaction between on-shore and off-shore team members, internal customers, other developers, Quality Assurance, Business System Analysts, Tax Research, Professional Services, and Customer Support counterparts is an integral part of the role.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES –
- Designing object-oriented and service-oriented architectures
- Programming and unit testing of code based upon design sessions with internal software users, customer-reported issues, and input from Product Management, Tax Research and other cross-functional departments.
- Developing and re-factoring existing products, providing product enhancements and resolving product defects to meet internal customer issues.
- Implementing sophisticated code, understandable to team, following the coding standards and best practices.
- Improving skill set with new release functionalities and enhancing application standards using those features.
- Unit and performance testing of design as part of development cycle
- Writing technical specifications, program documentation, and unit test plans
- Maintaining solid relationships with cross-functional peers
- Assisting in Quality Assurance process and customer issue resolution
- Partnering with Quality Assurance to drive high-quality, on-time deliverables.
- Design and develop web applications using Angular and REST API using node/loopback.
- Providing technical expertise and peer code reviews to other team members
- Providing architectural input on new and existing solutions
KEY DELIVERABLES -
- Understands the markets we serve, our products and customers along with their needs and priorities.
- Knowledge of business rules related to the company's products.
- Able to review and understand business, functional, technical and/or project requirements.
- Business knowledge related to the products in which we operate.
- Performs root cause analysis of problems with some complexity.
- Actively participates and collaborates in meetings, processes, agile ceremonies, and interaction with other technology groups.
- Learns and adapts; bounces back from setbacks.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer, India – Hyderabad if your background includes:
- Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years’ working with Oracle 11g/12c database design and data architecture experience.
- 5+ years’ specifically working with PL/SQL variant (Oracle)
- Experience with PL/SQL, Packages, stored procedure development and data modeling.
- Experience in debugging and understanding complex, unfamiliar PL/SQL code.
- Experience using Oracle packages, procedures, views, materialized views, nested tables, user defined functions, packages and triggers, external and partition tables and bulk processing.
- Experience working with XML and JSON parsing,
- Experience with ETL processing and patterns, implementations even using pl/sql code and tools along with writing scripts to load/manipulate data between different databases.
- Database performance tuning and job scheduling in oracle.
- Additional experience working with other databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL is also desirable
- Experience with full life cycle development: requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently and self-driven.
- Strong working knowledge with Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Implementation
Skill Set:
- Oracle SQL PL/SQL
- Unix/Linux
- SQL Loader
- Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server
- TOAD/SQL Developer/SQL Navigator/DBeaver
- Object Oriented Programming knowledge.
- GIT/SVN
- Agile and Scrum
- Handling large amount of data tables
- AWS knowledge
Preferred (but not mandatory):
- Python or Perl
- ADO
- AWS
- ETL Concept
- Non-relational database technologies (NoSQL)
Other specialized knowledge and skills required:
- Strong analytical and design skills
- Highly accountable for meeting all commitments and deadlines.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences
- Must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively.
- Drive for continuous process improvement.
What’s in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- 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.
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.
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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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.
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