Data Visualization Developer

Job description

Job Description

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers atReuters.com .

Reuters is looking for a seasoned front-end web developer to work with the graphics team building news-driven data visualizations. The Data Visualization Developer will create interactive graphics packages for news stories and build graphics tools for the department and the wider newsroom.

Candidates should have strong organizational skills, an interest in data, and how to visualize it in a meaningful way. This work will be featured on Reuters.com and Eikon, Thomson Reuters' showcase desktop product. Candidates must demonstrate a genuine understanding of design, and stay abreast of new techniques and tools for presenting information visually and interactively.

Required Skills and Experience

·  Mastery of HTML5, CSS3 and javascript and familiarity with libraries like D3, backbone, underscore and JQuery as well as mapping tools such as QGIS, and TopoJSON.
·  Familiarity with back-end web technologies including Python and Ruby - web frameworks such as PHP, Rails, Django or node.js.
·  Familiarity with Less, Sass, Gulp or similar tools for compiling and minimizing CSS.
·  The ability to collaborate with others is essential. The job requires working with graphics colleagues in New York, London and Singapore, and text reporters around the world.
·  Knowledge of or interest in data pertaining to the global economy and trade, markets (stocks, bonds, commodities), oil fundamentals and macroeconomic data a plus.

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 45,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal EmploymentOpportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visitthomsonreuters.com/careers .

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found onthomsonreuters.com .

Locations
New York-New York-United States of America