Director, Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

Join Thomson Reuters as Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within Service Management in our CIO organization, supporting the Corporate Tax and Trade product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead 24x7 reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for a global portfolio of mission-critical applications and services within Service Management in the CIO organization.
• Serve as the executive escalation point during major incidents, ensuring rapid coordination, timely resolution, and clear communication with senior technology, product, and business stakeholders.
• Partner with product engineering teams to embed reliability into product design, development, and release processes, ensuring operational readiness for new products and features.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve best-in-class observability, incident management, disaster recovery, and resilience engineering practices.
• Shape and evolve the SRE strategy, operating model, and engineering behaviors across the Corporate Tax and Trade product portfolio, aligned to broader Service Management practices.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of SRE managers and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusion, continuous improvement, and service excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, software engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, enterprise technology, service management, or a related technology leadership role.
• Proven experience leading global teams that support large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering practices, observability tools, automation frameworks, incident management, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Experience operating within or closely partnering with Service Management functions, including incident, problem, change, availability, and continuity management.
• Experience influencing product and technology roadmaps to prioritize reliability, scalability, performance, resilience, and service quality improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead transformation within a complex enterprise technology environment, including the adoption of automation, AI operations, and modern SRE practices.
• Strong people leadership skills, including talent development, succession planning, performance management, and resource allocation across regions and technology domains.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience managing large budgets and aligning investment decisions to business priorities.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, engineering teams, and business partners at all levels.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• CISSP, CCIE, or equivalent certifications preferred.

Skills

• Leadership and strategic thinking.
• Technical proficiency in SRE practices, automation, and observability tools.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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 and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. These benefits meet or exceed 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.

The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $158,900 USD - $295,100 USD. 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.