Principal Application & Product Architect
Wolters Kluwer2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex architectural initiatives across multiple product teams and product domains.
- Design and evolve large-scale customer-facing SaaS and internal product platforms.
- Translate product strategy and requirements into practical, executable architecture.
- Develop cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, distributed, and platform architectures.
- Design data-intensive systems and enterprise or partner integrations, including authentication, authorization, and versioning.
- Define and evolve architectural standards, reference patterns, and deployment approaches.
- Lead collaborative architecture reviews and guide teams through architectural trade-offs.
- Write code, review pull requests, build prototypes, and validate designs through implementation.
- Design for security, compliance, privacy, availability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness.
- Lead through influence, mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and communicate decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale customer-facing SaaS and internal product platforms.
- Expert knowledge of cloud-native architectures using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with microservices, modular monoliths, event-driven patterns, API-first design, and contract-driven design.
- Understanding of shared services, internal platforms, standardized deployment paths, and platform engineering concepts.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, resiliency, fault tolerance, observability, consistency trade-offs, and data-intensive systems.
- Expertise in enterprise and partner integrations, API gateways, authentication, authorization, and versioning strategies.
- Experience establishing architectural standards and leading collaborative architecture reviews.
- Strong background in modern programming languages and frameworks, including C#, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience designing secure systems with identity, data protection, secrets management, threat modeling, compliance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across multiple teams, mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and communicate clearly about technical trade-offs.
Benefits
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
- Candidates are asked to participate in interviews without AI tools or external prompts, and in-person interviews may be included.
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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.