# Software Engineer (Legislation)

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced software developer to join our team as a Software Engineer (Legislation). You will use your expertise and passion for developing information systems to maintain, modernise and improve our technologies for publishing and AI-focused legislation on TimeBase and Westlaw.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Work with the TimeBase technical team and the broader, globally distributed Technology, Product, and delivery partners to plan and execute Time Base maintenance and development activities.

- Support migration and modernization of TimeBase content in Thomson Reuters content systems and Westlaw applications and related cloud-based platforms and services.

- Assist with source code migration from TimeBase repositories into TR-managed tooling, and support the Jira → Azure DevOps (ADO) migration.

- Support data and CRM migration work (e.g., Capsule CRM and Xero data moving into TR systems) and help validate systems ahead of legacy decommissioning.

- Contribute to the TimeBase cloud/infrastructure migration , assessing current on-prem and third-party and cloud environments and helping migrate them to TR-hosted infrastructure.

- Modernisation of a Perl 5.8 system to the latest Perl.

- Support platform and identity work such as SSO/SSO configuration, monitoring/observability (e.g., Datadog), and compliance requirements including Australian data residency.

- Take part in technical discovery sessions with internal teams and external delivery partners to help document TimeBase's current technical capabilities and architecture.

- Produce clear technical documentation, migration runbooks, and handover notes to support knowledge transfer as legacy systems are retired.

- Attend regular check-ins and status updates with local technical experts and the broader project teams; flag risks, blockers, and dependencies early.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology (or equivalent practical experience).

- Able to work independently while collaborating closely with a small, distributed team across time zones (Australia, and globally distributed Thomson Reuters teams).

- Strong written communication , comfortable documenting technical decisions and explaining them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Comfortable operating with evolving scope and multiple concurrent workstreams, and prioritising pragmatically.

- Solid hands-on software development experience, ideally including data migration, system integration, or platform consolidation projects.

- Experience with cloud migration work , moving applications/data from on-premises or third-party hosted environments into a cloud platform.

- Experience with data and/or CRM migration (e.g., migrating data out of a legacy CRM such as Capsule into a new platform).

- Experience with various programming languages and toolsets, Perl, C# .Net, Java, JavaScript, Grunt, Gradle, etc.

**Benefits**

- Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: supportive workplace policies.

- Career Development and Growth: continuous learning and skill development.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans.

- Culture: award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

- Social Impact: opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

## Skills

### Required
- Perl
- C# .Net
- Java
- JavaScript
- Grunt
- Gradle
- cloud migration
- data migration
- CRM migration
- system integration
- platform consolidation

### Nice to have
- SSO/identity integration
- enterprise security
- data residency requirements
- legal
- publishing
- content-heavy platforms
- Westlaw
- Lexis
- Datadog
- observability/monitoring tooling

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