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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Director of Workflow Engineering

Salary

$183,100 USD - $340,000 USD per year

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Description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Director of Workflow Engineering to lead the engineering function and set its technical direction across Service Management and IT Operations.

The successful candidate will have:

  • 12+ years in technology, including 7+ years leading engineering or platform teams (ServiceNow or IT Service Management)
  • Technical credibility to set architecture and development standards
  • Sound build-vs-buy judgement
  • Deep ITIL fluency: incident, problem, change, request, knowledge, SLM, and continual service improvement
  • Strong ServiceNow architecture, workflow design, and platform governance experience
  • Familiarity with Now Platform AI (Predictive Intelligence, Now Assist) and agentic automation
  • Experience designing and scaling automation on various tooling
  • Event-driven engineering across APIs, webhooks, monitoring/observability platforms, cloud services, and telemetry ingestion
  • Ability to engineer workflows for real-time execution
  • Fluency in CI/CD, deployment automation, and observability
  • Experience establishing development standards, quality controls, and platform governance across a global team
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across engineering, operations, and business audiences

Responsibilities include:

  • Leading, growing, and mentoring the engineering team
  • Owning the technical architecture, development standards, and engineering practices for operational workflows on ServiceNow and the tooling around it
  • Shifting the mindset from automating existing processes to redesigning them with an AI-first lens
  • Replacing manual, ticket-driven processes with workflows that execute reliably and consistently at scale
  • Bringing AI into production operations
  • Building and owning the integrations that make automation possible
  • Setting the engineering roadmap for the function and defining how its success is measured

Benefits include:

  • Hybrid work model
  • Flexibility and work-life balance
  • Career development and growth opportunities
  • Industry-competitive benefits
  • Culture of inclusion and belonging
  • Social impact initiatives

The base compensation range for this role is $183,100 USD - $340,000 USD.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • cloud services
  • event-driven engineering
  • agentic automation
  • Predictive Intelligence
  • Now Assist
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