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Web Designer/Developer
| Company: | Thomson Reuters Company Profile | Current Opportunities (36) |
| Job Location(s): | Ann Arbor |
| Employment Term: | Regular |
| Employment Type | Full Time |
| Start Date: | As soon as possible |
| Starting Salary Range: | Not Provided |
| Required Experience: | Open |
| Related Categories: | IT - Internet/Web Development |
Position Description
Description
Qualifications
Thomson Reuters is the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. Through its more than 50,000 people across 93 countries, Thomson Reuters delivers this must-have insight to the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, and is powered by the world's most trusted news organization. More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on www.ThomsonReuters.com http://www.thomsonreuters.com/
Business Relationships:
Directly reports to Section Manager, Software Development
Job Summary:
The role of the Web Designer is to be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of all customer-facing applications for the Techstreet business. As part of the Technology Group, the Web Designer work closely with various cross-functional teams to provide recommendations and estimations for, apply best-practice methodologies to, and successfully execute projects. The Web Developer will also work closely with 3rd party service providers and others throughout the broader Thomson Reuters organization to leverage and develop innovative products and services to meet the needs of customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the creative design and layout of the transactional ecommerce web store.
- Responsible for the creative design and layout of the subscription-based content delivery and management application.
- Work closely with project leaders and stakeholders to review business process issues and project objectives, designing and developing solutions that exceed the customer's expectations.
- Recommend service offerings and usability enhancements to techstreet.com and supporting applications (search engine, web analytics, email, web services, etc.)
- Provides expertise on current product functions and serves as a resource on future product direction.
- Manage implementation and maintenance of partner sites.
- Develop and support PPC and SEO strategies in collaboration with industry experts.
- Facilitate sales and marketing initiatives.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- 5 years experience designing enterprise-level web-based applications and ecommerce systems.
- 3 years development experience within application frameworks using MVC architecture.
- Strong foundation in web technologies including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, RSS.
- Experience in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Interactive Web Design.
- Experience implementing and optimizing web analytics tools, including Omniture and Google Analytics.
- Object-oriented and procedural programming experience including Perl and preferable Ruby
- Working knowledge of relational database design in large scale transactional systems (e.g. CRUD, entity relationships, data flow). Oracle or MySQL preferred.
- Experience using version controls tools. Subversion preferred.
- Strong UNIX skills including vi.
- Graphics creation, editing, and optimizing through Photoshop, Fireworks or other graphics software.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new programming languages as needed.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and personal interaction skills.
- Proven analytical skills, problem-solving ability and decision-making.
- Demonstrated organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
Education and Previous Experience:
- BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of professional experience as a User Interface designer / developer.
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive - we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
