Associate Director, Platform & Product Architecture

Wolters Kluwer International; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 133,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans

401(k)

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer is seeking an Associate Director, Application & Product Architect to translate business strategy into scalable architecture for the Business License portfolio. The role blends long‑term platform direction with hands‑on partnerships across Product, Engineering, UX, Security, Data and Infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will lead modernization from legacy systems to modular services, define technical foundations for self‑service, AI‑enabled workflows, and License Intelligence

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and evolving complex enterprise applications, SaaS, or product architectures.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, modern web applications, APIs, service‑oriented or microservice patterns, integration architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to modernize large legacy applications while maintaining active customer delivery.
• Strong understanding of domain‑driven design, data modeling, performance engineering, resilience, observability, and secure architecture.
• Practical knowledge of generative AI patterns such as retrieval augmented generation, tool‑enabled agents, evaluation, grounding, and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the target application and product architecture for the Business License portfolio.
• Translate product strategy and complex licensing workflows into scalable capabilities, services, APIs, domain models, and integration patterns.
• Create architecture roadmaps that connect near‑term product delivery with modernization, operational risk reduction, and customer outcomes.
• Guide incremental decomposition of legacy applications using pragmatic approaches such as domain‑driven design, bounded contexts, and strangler‑style modernization.
• Establish clear service ownership, contracts, and architectural guardrails while reducing coupling across layers.
• Shape the consolidation of customer experiences and retirement of obsolete components without disrupting existing customers.
• Architect for large enterprise workloads, including database efficiency, service performance, workload isolation, resilience, and horizontal scale.
• Establish measurable non‑functional requirements and service‑level objectives for availability, latency, throughput, recovery, and reliability.
• Advance observability, automated functional and performance testing, production diagnostics, security, and cloud cost awareness as architecture capabilities.
• Define reusable and governable patterns for generative AI, retrieval, intelligent agents, regulatory content, customer context, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
• Lead architecture reviews, provide implementation guidance, resolve complex technical challenges, and communicate trade‑offs to engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers and strengthen architecture practices without creating a governance bottleneck.

Skills

Enterprise architectures

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

Domain-driven design

Cloud platforms

Observability

AI patterns

leadership across teams

Job description

Wolters Kluwer is seeking an Associate Director, Application & Product Architect to translate business strategy into scalable architecture for the Business License portfolio. The role blends long‑term platform direction with hands‑on partnerships across Product, Engineering, UX, Security, Data and Infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will lead modernization from legacy systems to modular services, define technical foundations for self‑service, AI‑enabled workflows, and License Intelligence