Principal Engineer - AI Capabilities

Wolters Kluwer N.V.; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer N.V. is seeking a Principal Engineer / Technical Lead (AI Capabilities) to own the design, delivery, and operation of AI-enabled sourcing and procurement capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional teams, translate business needs into scalable AI and workflow solutions, and ensure secure, production-grade integrations across Compare Tool, Smart Intake, SourceIQ, and future AI initiatives. The role requires extensive experience building AI-enabled systems, working with enterprise

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience.
• Strong foundation in Python, APIs/integrations, cloud architectures.
• Experience with LLM, RAG, and agent-based AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, delivery, and operation of AI-enabled sourcing and procurement capabilities.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions across the delivery lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership across internal and external teams and partners.
• Design and support AI workflows and agent-based interactions across platforms.
• Ensure secure, maintainable, and scalable enterprise applications and integrations.

Skills

Python

APIs & Integrations

Cloud architecture

Full-stack development

LLM/RAG/Agent AI

Enterprise applications

Systems integration

Job description

About the Role

About the Role: The Principal Engineer / Technical Lead (AI Capabilities) is responsible for the technical design, delivery, integration, and operational readiness of AI-enabled sourcing and procurement capabilities. Working across initiatives such as Compare Tool, Smart Intake, SourceIQ, and future AI solutions, the role serves as the primary technical owner throughout the capability lifecycle, ensuring solutions are designed, built, integrated, tested, deployed, and supported in alignment with business requirements and enterprise standards. The role provides technical leadership across internal and external delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions while overseeing integrations, application development, data flows, testing, release activities, and ongoing technical support. Acting as the key technical counterpart to business, technology, and vendor stakeholders, the Technical Lead ensures AI-enabled capabilities remain secure, maintainable, and fit for purpose as they scale. The role requires experience designing and delivering AI-and agent-based solutions, including understanding how decision logic, context, and structured knowledge models interact across workflows and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, delivery, and ongoing operation of AI-enabled sourcing and procurement capabilities, ensuring solutions remain scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and oversee the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, release management, and ongoing support.
• Provide technical leadership across internal engineering resources and external delivery partners, ensuring technical quality, architectural consistency, and successful delivery of capability enhancements and new solutions.
• Design and support implementation of AI-and agent based workflows, ensuring system behavior aligns to expected decision outcomes and user interactions.
• Design, review, and maintain application code, integrations, APIs, workflows, and supporting technical components while leveraging AI-assisted development approaches to improve delivery speed and engineering productivity.
• Design and support complex, context-driven workflows where outcomes depend on multiple inputs, decision paths, and business scenarios.
• Ensure solutions are designed for reuse across multiple AI-enabled capabilities (Compare, Intake, SourceIQ), avoiding tool-specific implementations.
• Manage the ongoing maintenance and support of deployed capabilities, including defect resolution, technical enhancements, environment management, and operational stability.
• Ensure effective integration with enterprise platforms, data sources, and third-party solutions while maintaining alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.
• Ensure all AI-enabled solutions consume and operate against the shared semantic layer (taxonomy, ontology, structured knowledge models) as the source of truth.
• Ensure clear separation between semantic logic (definitions, classifications, decision rules), application logic, and agent behavior.
• Identify and prevent inappropriate embedding of business decision logic within application code, prompts, or agent workflows.
• Support testing, validation, and troubleshooting of AI-enabled solutions, including analysis of outputs, identification of edge cases, and resolution of issues related to data, logic, or system behavior.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, performance issues, and scalability considerations, supporting the long-term sustainability and evolution of AI-enabled capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, engineering practices, and AI development approaches to continuously improve capability delivery, operational effectiveness, and technical outcomes.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience with at least 5 years in an AI environment.
• Strong software engineering foundation, particularly Python, APIs/integrations, cloud/application architecture and sufficient full-stack experience to work within a production codebase.
• Practical experience with LLM, RAG, agentic AI and/or intelligent workflow solutions.
• Experience owning enterprise applications through build, deployment and ongoing operation.
• Ability to troubleshoot across application code, integrations, workflows, data and AI behaviour, making changes directly where appropriate and identifying when deeper specialist support is required.
• Experience providing technical oversight of engineering teams and external delivery partners.
• Strong technical aptitude to review solutions and code and ensure we can operate and evolve the capabilities internally rather than remaining dependent on implementation partners.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise applications, integrations, APIs, workflows, and digital solutions.
• Experience working with modern software development frameworks, cloud technologies, and application architectures.

Company Culture and Values

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day.

Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes.

Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains.

We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential.

With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.

As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work. We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion. This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics.

At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous. Our global Together we thrive well-being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well-being. That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Well-being: Large Organization in 2024. More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026. In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.