Lead Architect, Application & Product- AI
Wolters Kluwer2 days ago
Base Salary
$108k - $188k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own architecture for new cloud and AI products and the overarching platform.
- Define architecture standards, technical guardrails, integration patterns, and scalable application and data architectures.
- Conduct architecture, design, and security reviews and advise Product and Engineering stakeholders.
- Design production-grade AI and agentic capabilities covering context engineering, evaluation, orchestration, observability, performance, security, governance, traceability, and cost optimization.
- Define AI evaluation and validation patterns for quality, reliability, performance, security, and regression testing.
- Create version-controlled architecture artifacts, including reference architectures, specifications, architecture decision records, integration contracts, and reference implementations.
- Analyze existing and legacy architectures and develop incremental evolution and migration paths.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, data protection, risk, compliance, and governance.
- Lead through technical influence and align Product, Engineering, Security, Data, and platform teams without relying on direct authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline is preferred.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant application or product architecture responsibility for complex commercial software.
- Hands-on experience architecting AI/ML, generative AI, or agentic capabilities in customer-facing production software.
- Experience with Agentic Product Development Lifecycle and Spec-Driven Development, including architecture specifications, evaluation strategies, and traceability.
- Experience designing secure AI-enabled systems, including data protection, identity, access controls, threat modeling, and AI-specific security risks.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and integration architectures.
- Experience with modern technology stacks, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automated quality gates.
- Experience understanding and incrementally evolving enterprise and legacy architectures.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Architecture Governance.
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture, production AI and agentic architecture, and production operational architecture.
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs across scalability, resiliency, security, performance, cost, maintainability, delivery speed, and technical debt.
- Strong communication, systems-thinking, technical leadership, and influencing skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan.
- FSA/HSA options.
- Commuter benefits.
- Tuition assistance plan.
- Vacation and sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office during the interview process.
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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.