Lead Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer2 days ago
Base Salary
$108k - $188k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain end-to-end product architecture aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and enterprise standards.
- Lead architecture and design reviews across multiple product initiatives and engineering teams.
- Develop architectural blueprints, solution designs, reference architectures, technical standards, and long-term technology roadmaps.
- Design and govern AI-enabled products, intelligent workflows, agentic systems, conversational experiences, and RAG solutions.
- Establish standards for AI safety, grounding, observability, evaluation, prompt management, governance, and responsible AI practices.
- Champion Spec-Driven Development and Agentic SDLC practices through architectural guardrails, reusable templates, AI-enabled workflows, and development automation.
- Lead modernization, legacy transformation, cloud migration, platform modernization, API strategy, microservices adoption, and distributed-systems initiatives.
- Guide teams on cloud-native architecture, event-driven systems, integration platforms, platform engineering, performance, reliability, and operational maturity.
- Lead proof-of-concepts and architecture spikes for emerging technologies and innovative solution approaches.
- Drive adoption of GitHub Copilot, coding agents, automated testing, code review assistants, and developer productivity platforms.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineering teams, and advise leadership on architecture strategy, technology investments, modernization, and AI adoption.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale software products and platforms.
- Strong expertise in application architecture, solution architecture, and distributed-systems design.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, scalable APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, platform architectures, security, resiliency, observability, performance, and operational architecture.
- Expertise with Azure environments and experience architecting cloud-native applications and platform services.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Platform Engineering, containers, Kubernetes, service meshes, and enterprise integration platforms.
- Experience with generative AI application architecture, agentic systems, AI orchestration frameworks, RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, AI safety, governance, and responsible AI design.
- Experience with AI-assisted software development, Spec-Driven Development, Agentic SDLC, AI coding assistants, and developer productivity platforms.
- Strong architectural leadership, technical mentoring, stakeholder influence, communication, analytical thinking, and complex problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to lead architecture initiatives across multiple teams and product areas without direct authority.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, AI, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
- 5+ years in Solution Architect, Product Architect, or Principal Architect roles.
- Preferred experience with .NET, Angular, MS SQL, Oracle, AI/ML-enabled products, enterprise AI platforms, LLM-powered solutions, application modernization, enterprise SaaS, and cloud-based software products.
- Preferred certifications include Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, ArchiMate, Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD, Azure AI Engineer Associate, and AI architecture, prompt engineering, or generative AI certifications.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k), FSA/HSA, commuter benefits, and tuition assistance.
- Vacation, sick time, and paid parental leave.
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
- The role is eligible for a bonus; the stated compensation range is $107,500.00-$188,400.00 USD.
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.