Title:Principal Architect
ID:JREQ047491
Description
FindLaw is the grown-up start-up. Starting in Silicon Valley, home of innovators, creators, and crazies, where everyone wants to do the start-up, FindLaw got bought, done good, grew up. Now we need to do more of what we do, bring free legal information to everyone and connect people to attorneys that can help them with their legal problems. We are the biggest and best in our space, but we want more, and we need you to help. Here’s how:
Our new Principal Architect will be the front person for technology strategy and architecture across the FindLaw business. In this job, you will work with FindLaw business leaders, Findlaw’s CTO and across boundaries of both the FindLaw and Legal business to understand current and future technology needs, market trends, and development approaches. Your work will directly fuel growth in thousands of businesses across the nation by driving results for our law firm customers.
A great principal architect will advocate for the business every day by identifying industry trends and emerging technologies of interest, streamlining development best practices by leveraging agile methodologies, and sun setting legacy systems for better more flexible capabilities. In other words, you will work to remove the obstacles that slow anything and everything down.
In this critical role, you will need a broad understanding of technology and will be able to draw upon deep development experience to inform your approach. As a leader, you will demonstrate expressive oral and written communication skills and possess strong partnering skills. You need to explain complex technology to all audiences, from engineers to marketers (and you’ll work with a lot of them).
FindLaw helps people, consumers like you and me, when we aren’t wearing our engineering hats. By helping people find legal help, FindLaw is serving the business development needs of solo and small law firms. Being able to adjust quickly to market needs using both tried and innovative technologies is proven to be the path to success.
More of What You’ll Do All Day
- Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate with FindLaw business and technology executives and leaders, development, project management, quality, business analysts, support, and peer architects working across organizations boundaries to clarify technology direction, inform implementation, and promote technical standards.
- Design the end-state architecture and long term strategy for customer-facing and internal support software products and services across Findlaw’s numerous business domains.
- Assist project teams in mapping their current solutions to the long-term strategy and enable governance to ensure efficiency and minimize risk.
- Innovate by researching market trends and incorporating emerging technologies fostering creativity, imagination, and experimentation to build a broad set of scalable, resilient solutions for a healthy future and happy customers.
- Lead a team of 2-6 architects and/or engineers whose charters largely mirror those of the principal architect including architect career development, goal setting, performance reviews, and salary administration.
- Commit to the continued growth of the individuals within your organization by providing mentoring, career guidance, training opportunities, and feedback throughout the year.
- Leverage the assets of the larger Thomson Reuters business, the Legal technology organization, and across FindLaw’s technology group
- Guide FindLaw’s software development approach from requirements analysis through high-level systems architecture to the specification of "off-the-shelf" or proprietary components and services required for the system to function.
- Engage with technology and service vendors on purchased technologies including contract negotiations, cost/benefit analyses, and financial analyses.
- Build strong and positive relationships with business and technology leaders and design teams to align application development with the corporation’s strategic technology direction
- Optimize the time, skills and creativity of all resources assigned to you to deliver results while providing a motivating and enjoyable environment to work in – because we value a fun atmosphere at FindLaw. It’s a great place to work, and we want to hire people who will keep it that way.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or strongly-related disciplineExperience:
- 15+ years experience in Information Technology with experience in the development of scalable, flexible architectures for high-concurrency and high-performance web applications.
- Repeated success in large-scale systems re-engineering and technology transformations
- Demonstrated effectiveness in both application and systems software domains
- 3+ years experience working with one of the Thomson Reuters business units (desirable).
- Direct leadership experience in a managing a group of technologists as part of a distributed team in a global environment.
- Proven ability to oversee and guide multiple concurrent technical projects.Skills:
- Practical understanding of the development of scalable, flexible architectures for high-concurrency and high-performance applications.
- Excellent communications style with business stakeholders, management, peers and software developers alike. Ability to articulate complex problems and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Robust interpersonal skills supported by expressive oral and written communication styles
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to operate with limited supervision.
- Comfortable with product, technical and organizational ambiguity.
- Knowledge of high availability, heavy traffic sites and SEO strategy is a plus. Do you have no fear of Google? Good, that would also help.
FindLaw
FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters, is a leading provider of business development solutions for small law firms. Through its team of legal marketing experts, FindLaw drives the industry by delivering a comprehensive portfolio of proven online and offline marketing solutions designed to connect law firms with targeted prospective clients. FindLaw is also home to the largest online directory of lawyers and FindLaw.com (www.FindLaw.com), the most popular legal website with more than eight million people visiting each month for free information about a legal topic, to solve a legal problem or to find a lawyer.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2015 fiscal year (October 1, 2014-September 30, 2015).
Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: L Tech Findlaw
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
ID:JREQ047491
Description
FindLaw is the grown-up start-up. Starting in Silicon Valley, home of innovators, creators, and crazies, where everyone wants to do the start-up, FindLaw got bought, done good, grew up. Now we need to do more of what we do, bring free legal information to everyone and connect people to attorneys that can help them with their legal problems. We are the biggest and best in our space, but we want more, and we need you to help. Here’s how:
Our new Principal Architect will be the front person for technology strategy and architecture across the FindLaw business. In this job, you will work with FindLaw business leaders, Findlaw’s CTO and across boundaries of both the FindLaw and Legal business to understand current and future technology needs, market trends, and development approaches. Your work will directly fuel growth in thousands of businesses across the nation by driving results for our law firm customers.
A great principal architect will advocate for the business every day by identifying industry trends and emerging technologies of interest, streamlining development best practices by leveraging agile methodologies, and sun setting legacy systems for better more flexible capabilities. In other words, you will work to remove the obstacles that slow anything and everything down.
In this critical role, you will need a broad understanding of technology and will be able to draw upon deep development experience to inform your approach. As a leader, you will demonstrate expressive oral and written communication skills and possess strong partnering skills. You need to explain complex technology to all audiences, from engineers to marketers (and you’ll work with a lot of them).
FindLaw helps people, consumers like you and me, when we aren’t wearing our engineering hats. By helping people find legal help, FindLaw is serving the business development needs of solo and small law firms. Being able to adjust quickly to market needs using both tried and innovative technologies is proven to be the path to success.
More of What You’ll Do All Day
- Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate with FindLaw business and technology executives and leaders, development, project management, quality, business analysts, support, and peer architects working across organizations boundaries to clarify technology direction, inform implementation, and promote technical standards.
- Design the end-state architecture and long term strategy for customer-facing and internal support software products and services across Findlaw’s numerous business domains.
- Assist project teams in mapping their current solutions to the long-term strategy and enable governance to ensure efficiency and minimize risk.
- Innovate by researching market trends and incorporating emerging technologies fostering creativity, imagination, and experimentation to build a broad set of scalable, resilient solutions for a healthy future and happy customers.
- Lead a team of 2-6 architects and/or engineers whose charters largely mirror those of the principal architect including architect career development, goal setting, performance reviews, and salary administration.
- Commit to the continued growth of the individuals within your organization by providing mentoring, career guidance, training opportunities, and feedback throughout the year.
- Leverage the assets of the larger Thomson Reuters business, the Legal technology organization, and across FindLaw’s technology group
- Guide FindLaw’s software development approach from requirements analysis through high-level systems architecture to the specification of "off-the-shelf" or proprietary components and services required for the system to function.
- Engage with technology and service vendors on purchased technologies including contract negotiations, cost/benefit analyses, and financial analyses.
- Build strong and positive relationships with business and technology leaders and design teams to align application development with the corporation’s strategic technology direction
- Optimize the time, skills and creativity of all resources assigned to you to deliver results while providing a motivating and enjoyable environment to work in – because we value a fun atmosphere at FindLaw. It’s a great place to work, and we want to hire people who will keep it that way.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or strongly-related disciplineExperience:
- 15+ years experience in Information Technology with experience in the development of scalable, flexible architectures for high-concurrency and high-performance web applications.
- Repeated success in large-scale systems re-engineering and technology transformations
- Demonstrated effectiveness in both application and systems software domains
- 3+ years experience working with one of the Thomson Reuters business units (desirable).
- Direct leadership experience in a managing a group of technologists as part of a distributed team in a global environment.
- Proven ability to oversee and guide multiple concurrent technical projects.Skills:
- Practical understanding of the development of scalable, flexible architectures for high-concurrency and high-performance applications.
- Excellent communications style with business stakeholders, management, peers and software developers alike. Ability to articulate complex problems and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Robust interpersonal skills supported by expressive oral and written communication styles
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to operate with limited supervision.
- Comfortable with product, technical and organizational ambiguity.
- Knowledge of high availability, heavy traffic sites and SEO strategy is a plus. Do you have no fear of Google? Good, that would also help.
FindLaw
FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters, is a leading provider of business development solutions for small law firms. Through its team of legal marketing experts, FindLaw drives the industry by delivering a comprehensive portfolio of proven online and offline marketing solutions designed to connect law firms with targeted prospective clients. FindLaw is also home to the largest online directory of lawyers and FindLaw.com (www.FindLaw.com), the most popular legal website with more than eight million people visiting each month for free information about a legal topic, to solve a legal problem or to find a lawyer.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2015 fiscal year (October 1, 2014-September 30, 2015).
Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: L Tech Findlaw
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time