Senior Staff Software Engineer Java Jobs in Edina, MN

Staff Software Engineer, Public Records and Derived Authorities
Are you ready to shape the future of AI-driven content technology while leading cutting-edge innovation in a mission-critical role? Do you thrive in environments where your technical expertise can directly impact how the world's leading professionals' access and utilize information? We are seeking a talented, self-driven and highly motivated Staff Data Engineer, with experience working with and developing large data solutions to join our Public Records Publishing and Derived Authorities team.
About The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, Public Records and Derived Authorities, you will:

• Play a role in development of cutting-edge data platform solutions and drive technical strategy.
• Leading development across the entire publishing stack, from content ingestion and storage through to efficient delivery to downstream systems.
• You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, product leadership, and cross-functional teams to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade data systems that transform how our organization delivers value to customers.
• You will work closely with Product Management, Technology, and our Labs teams to enable our customers to build successful features and products to take their business to the next level.
• You will be developing and implementing solutions using Python, Snowflake, AWS cloud infrastructure, and modern data engineering practices, while leading and mentoring a team of talented engineers.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and lead large-scale, cloud-native data pipelines and publishing systems-processing billions of records using Snowflake, Python, and AWS services.
• Architect scalable data processing strategies, including stored procedures, transformation logic, orchestration, and enterprise data platform standards.
• Drive technical innovation, evaluating emerging data engineering techniques, leading proofs of concept, and shaping long-term data platform roadmaps.
• Provide senior technical leadership, making architectural decisions, translating business needs into scalable solutions, and mentoring engineers at all levels.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and operational excellence through testing frameworks, performance optimization, monitoring, and governance for security/compliance.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Labs teams to translate data capabilities into application features and market-ready content workflows.
• Oversee optimization of large-scale data processing across latency, cost, and resource efficiency, driving continuous improvements to data infrastructure.
• Serve as a thought leader representing best practices in data engineering, influencing strategy, feature development, and organizational standards.

About You
The Ideal Candidate Profile:
We're seeking an experienced engineer with strong hands-on development skills who has worked extensively with large datasets and modern data platforms. We need senior developers who can architect, build, and optimize data solutions using Snowflake and AWS services. You should be equally comfortable writing Python code, developing stored procedures, optimizing data pipelines, and designing scalable data architectures. Strong software engineering fundamentals, data modeling expertise, and production data platform experience are essential.
You are a fit for the position if your background includes:
Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering (Master's preferred) with 8+ years in software and data engineering, including 4+ years in senior or lead roles.
• Proven hands-on engineering background with expertise in Python, data pipelines, and production-grade ETL/ELT systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade software through the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Deep experience with Snowflake (Python stored procedures, performance tuning, data modeling) and AWS data engineering services (S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions).
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools, including Cursor and/or Claude, is required
• Strong capabilities in SQL, data modeling, distributed data processing, data quality frameworks, and cloud cost/performance optimization.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals including API development, testing, design patterns, Git workflows; bonus for Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and managing large-scale datasets, migrations, and orchestration workflows.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, excellent communication, ability to translate business requirements, and experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other modern data platforms or cloud data warehouses (Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Experience with data publishing workflows and content delivery systems
• Domain expertise in legal, tax, accounting, or other regulated industries, particularly with investigative platforms or systems that search and analyze large-scale public and proprietary records
• Track record of successful data platform launches and scaling data systems to enterprise customers
• Knowledge of data mesh or modern data architecture patterns
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Portfolio demonstrating leadership in innovative data solutions and platform development bringing solutions to market

#LI-SB1
New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.
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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters 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.
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 $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
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.
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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com