Lead Application & Product Architect, .Net/AI/Audit

As a hands-on Lead Application & Product Architect, you will play a critical role in designing and guiding the implementation of applications across the Global Audit portfolio. In this position, you’ll develop detailed product blueprints, data models, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements (NFRs), ensuring alignment with portfolio standards. You will collaborate closely with product owners and engineering leads, leveraging your ability to code and build quick proofs of concept. Proficiency in Azure Well-Architected principles, experience with VS Code and GitHub Copilot, and the capability to reverse-engineer .NET solutions to inform pragmatic designs are essential for success in this role.

You will report to the Principal Application & Product Architect and work a hybrid work schedule from our local office (2 days in office, 3 days remote).

Responsibilities:

• Own product-level architecture for audit applications, including diagrams, runtime flows, data models, and integration contracts.
• Select technologies within portfolio standards; document decisions and align with governance.
• Maintain SDD-compliant documentation (Current/Target/Transition states, security, availability, compliance) in version-controlled repositories.
• Define and validate NFRs (performance, security, reliability, operability, cost) with measurable criteria.
• Provide technical guidance on APIs, events, caching, resiliency, error handling, and observability.
• Develop POCs and spikes to de-risk solutions (e.g., retrieval/RAG, workflow integrations, storage lifecycle, performance tuning).
• Reverse-engineer .NET services; recommend modularization and refactoring strategies.
• Design and ensure backward-compatible integrations with adjacent systems; enforce contract testing.
• Apply enterprise patterns (API-first, event-driven, zero-trust, IaC) and coach teams on implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues; lead root-cause analysis and implement preventive patterns.
  
  
  

Outcomes & Measures: (examples)

• Publish product architecture documentation and diagrams within 30 days.
• Launch NFR dashboards tracking latency, throughput, availability, error budgets, and security posture.
• Deliver two POCs per quarter with documented ADRs and go/no-go decisions.
• Meet performance targets: p95 ≤ 250 ms for key interactions; ≤ 500 ms at 3× data scale.
• Achieve reliability goals: service SLO of 99.9% monthly; DR RPO/RTO ≤ 15 minutes.
  
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years in software engineering; 3 years in SaaS or distributed system architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Azure (or equivalent): AKS/Kubernetes, Key Vault, Blob/ADLS, networking, observability; familiarity with Well-Architected principles.
• Strong .NET/C# skills, including reverse-engineering and refactoring legacy code (ASP.NET Core, API design, performance tuning).
• Proficiency with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for code exploration, test/document generation, and diagramming; disciplined prompt usage.
• Excellent documentation skills: C4, Mermaid, sequence diagrams; ADRs; SDD-compliant records.
• Proven ability to execute POCs and spikes across storage, search, agent workflows, and APIs; measure/report latency, cost, and robustness.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying AI agent design patterns at product level (e.g., Planner–Executor, Manager–Executor, pipeline vs. swarm orchestration).
• Skilled in task decomposition, tool routing, and prompt design with cost/performance guardrails.
• Knowledge of RAG patterns: chunking, citations, provenance, and evidence binding for audit artifacts.
• Expertise in memory/state management: short-term conversation, long-term vector/graph, lineage tracking, and immutable evidence stores.
• Familiarity with evaluation and safety loops: self-critique agents, confidence scoring, HITL gates, policy checks, and audit trails.
• Agent observability: logs, spans, KPIs, trace replay, and incident analysis.
• Event-driven architecture with Kafka/Confluent, schema registry, and consumer group patterns.
• RAG and retrieval design using Azure AI Search, embeddings, and vector stores.
• Strong security and compliance practices: threat modeling, secure coding, encryption, and key management.
• CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions; IaC using Bicep/Terraform; Kubernetes operator patterns.
  
  
  

Core Competencies:

• Systems thinking with pragmatic trade-off analysis.
• Reliability engineering mindset: SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Clear communication across executive narratives and technical detail.
• Bias for action: rapid iteration in code and documentation, validated by data.
  
  
  

Tools & Environment:

• Editor: VS Code with Copilot Chat/Agents.
• Languages: C#/.NET; Python and TypeScript for POCs.
• Cloud: Azure (AKS, Key Vault, Blob/ADLS, App Gateway, Monitor/Log Analytics).
• AI/Agents: Foundry Agent Service / MAF; Azure AI Search.
• Storage: S3-compatible and Azure Blob with tiering.
• Diagrams: Mermaid (Markdown), C4.
• Docs: SDD-aligned markdown in repo (/docs); ADRs in /docs/adr.
  
  
  

Notes:

• Hands-on, code-adjacent role with expectation to prototype and deliver proofs of concept.
• Candidates must have work authorization in the relevant geography per hiring policy.
  
  
  

Benefits:

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available - https://www.mywolterskluwerbenefits.com/index.html

Diversity Matters:

Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

$107,500.00 - $188,400.00 USD

This role is eligible for Bonus.

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.