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Associate Business Design Architect

Thomson Reuters
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)

2900 Ames Crossing Road (Show on map)
Oct 31, 2025
Join the Business Architecture Team to drive strategic transformation at Thomson Reuters. About the Role As a Business Design Architect, you will leverage your analytical rigour, structured design expertise, and stakeholder management skills to drive Thomson Reuters' transformation. Working across functions (including commercial excellence, customer-to-cash, finance, enterprise architecture, sales, product, etc.), you'll define future-state business standards and assess how products and operations align with them. Your work will shape how Thomson Reuters evolves its commercial models, operational processes, and technology platforms to support strategic transformation. Core Focus Areas: Apply analytical and critical thinking to evaluate complex business challenges, identify root causes, and develop data-driven recommendations Design and document structured operational processes and business requirements using industry-standard frameworks and methodologies. Lead workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement across all organisational levels to gather insights, build alignment, and drive decision-making Manage project activities independently, ensuring alignment with broader programs and portfolios while keeping stakeholders informed and engaged. Additional Responsibilities: Develop high-level business designs, including business requirements, process flows, and standardized definitions Conduct fit-gap assessments to evaluate product and operational alignment with business standards, identifying gaps and recommending improvement opportunities. Use critical thinking and industry best practices to manage ambiguity, challenge the current state, and drive continuous improvements. Translate findings into actionable inputs for business design governance and strategic roadmaps. Gather and analyse data to assess the impact and highlight the relevance of proposed changes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to document decisions, track open items, and ensure alignment across workstreams. Report key updates to the Business Architecture leadership team Act as a champion for high-quality and consistent design activities and assessments across TR Establish, validate, and measure key metrics to track impacts and achieve intended business results Maintain and improve templates, trackers, and dashboards for design and assessment activities About You Must-Have Qualifications: Analytical & Critical Thinking:Exceptional ability to synthesise complex information, identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and develop insights that drive strategic decisions Structured Process/Operational Design:Proven experience designing end-to-end business processes, conducting process mapping, and performing operational analysis in complex environments Project Management & Stakeholder Management:Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives, facilitating workshops with diverse audiences, and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve alignment and outcomes Additional Qualifications: 6+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, business analysis, business architecture, or process improvement Proven ability to lead complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders Comfortable taking initiative and driving improvements independently in ambiguous situations Expert-level proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to create high-quality analyses, presentations, and documentation Strong interest in business architecture, business design, and business transformation Experience with end-to-end commercial processes and platforms Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment Collaborative and team-focused, with natural relationship development skills Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus #LI-LP2 What's in it For You? 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 vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and 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. In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds 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. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $99,400 - $184,600. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. 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. About Us Thomson Reuters 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 Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. 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