Lead AI & Cloud Product Architect

Wolters Kluwer International; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans

401(k)

FSA/HSA

Commuter Benefits

Tuition Assistance Plan

Vacation and Sick Time

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a Lead Application & Product Architect to drive cloud-first, AI-native architecture across our platform and products. You will own architecture direction, define standards and guardrails, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure scalable, secure solutions.

You will craft pragmatic migration paths, oversee architecture reviews, and ensure alignment with security, data protection, risk, and governance requirements while advancing agentic capabilities and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline is preferred.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with architecture responsibility for complex software.
• Hands-on experience architecting AI/ML, generative AI, or agentic capabilities in production software.
• Experience with Agentic Product Development Lifecycle and Spec-Driven Development, including architecture specs and traceability.
• Experience designing secure AI-enabled systems, including data protection and access controls.
• Strong cloud-native, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and integration architecture expertise.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automated quality gates.
• Ability to evolve legacy architectures incrementally and manage technical debt.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Governance.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of new cloud and AI products and the platform, ensuring cloud-first, API-first, agentic-first approaches.
• Define architecture standards, guardrails, and scalable, secure patterns across systems.
• Analyze existing architectures and craft pragmatic evolution and migration paths respecting investments.
• Serve as technical thought partner to Product and Engineering and conduct reviews.
• Ensure solutions meet internal security, data protection, risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Define AI evaluation, observability, and cost-optimized patterns for production-grade systems.
• Create Architecture-as-Code artifacts (ADR, reference architectures, contracts) for delivery teams.

Skills

AI/ML

Agentic development

Cloud-native architectures

APIs

Microservices

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Security

Data protection

Architecture governance

Architecture-as-Code

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Job description

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a Lead Application & Product Architect to drive cloud-first, AI-native architecture across our platform and products. You will own architecture direction, define standards and guardrails, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure scalable, secure solutions.

You will craft pragmatic migration paths, oversee architecture reviews, and ensure alignment with security, data protection, risk, and governance requirements while advancing agentic capabilities and