As a hands-on Lead Application & Product Architect (Solution Architect), you will drive the technical design and delivery of innovative solutions across the Global Audit portfolio. In this role, you will own end-to-end solution architectures for audit engagement, content, analytics, and emerging agentic capabilities. You’ll define and govern Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), produce high-quality architecture documentation with clear C4/Mermaid diagrams, and develop rapid proofs of concept (POCs) to de-risk critical decisions.
Success in this position requires fluency in Azure Well-Architected principles, proficiency with VS Code and GitHub Copilot, the ability to reverse-engineer .NET codebases, and familiarity with multi-agent development patterns. This role adheres to enterprise Solution Definition Document (SDD) standards and architecture governance, ensuring compliance across Target, Current, and Transition states. Your scope will span the Global Audit portfolio with releases across multiple regions, including the US, Canada, and Europe.
You will report to the Principal Application & Product Architect and work a hybrid work schedule from our local Coppell, TX office. (2 days in office, 3 days remote)
Responsibilities:
Own solution architecture across Global Audit capabilities (workflows, rules, analytics, document flows, automation).
Define and govern NFRs (performance, reliability, security, observability, cost); ensure measurable acceptance criteria in epics/features and tests.
Author and maintain architecture documentation and diagrams (C4, sequence flows, Kubernetes/AKS deployments, data/storage, security, runbooks) in versioned repos.
Conduct Well-Architected assessments and drive remediation plans and platform guardrails.
Build POCs to validate designs (retrieval/RAG, agent workflows, storage governance, latency targets); deliver working code and ADRs.
Reverse-engineer .NET services, generate technical summaries, identify modularization seams, and propose refactor roadmaps.
Outcomes & Measures: (examples)
Architecture documentation (with diagrams) delivered within 30 days.
NFR catalog and dashboards live for latency, throughput, error budgets, and index freshness.
Well-Architected assessment completed with prioritized actions and owners.
At least two POC readouts per quarter, including ADRs and go/no-go decisions.
Performance: p95 ≤ 300 ms baseline for key workflows; ≤ 600 ms at 3× corpus.
Reliability: Service SLO 99.9% monthly; DR RPO/RTO ≤ 15 minutes.
Qualifications:
Experience: 10+ years in software engineering; 5+ years in solution/product architecture for SaaS or distributed systems.
Cloud Expertise: Deep Azure (or equivalent) knowledge—AKS/Kubernetes, Key Vault, object storage/ADLS, networking/ingress, observability; proven application of Azure Well-Architected principles.
Technical Skills: Advanced .NET/C# (ASP.NET Core, API design, performance profiling); ability to reverse-engineer legacy code and lead refactoring.
AI & Dev Tools: Proficient with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for code exploration, test/document generation, and diagram scaffolding; strong prompt discipline.
Architecture Practices: Skilled in clear documentation, C4/Mermaid diagrams, sequence flows, and ADR authoring aligned with governance.
POC Delivery: Capable of building spikes across storage, indexing/search, agentic flows, and APIs; able to measure and report latency, cost, and robustness.
Preferred Qualifications:
AI Agent Design & Orchestration: Practical experience with agent design patterns and orchestration topologies (hierarchical, planner–executor, pipeline, swarm), task decomposition, dynamic routing, and tool selection with guardrails.
Retrieval & Evidence (RAG): Expertise in retrieval-augmented generation, document chunking, provenance tracking, evidence binding, and index schema design for explainability.
Memory & State Management: Conversational, long-term, and thread memory; lineage tracking; immutable evidence stores (e.g., WORM).
Evaluation & Safety: Self-critique loops, confidence scoring, HITL gating, audit trails, policy checks, and red-team scenarios.
Communication & Coordination: Contract-first messaging, pub-sub patterns, idempotent commands, and failure-aware retries.
Observability & Testing: Agent-level logging, KPIs, trace replay, synthetic evaluations, canary rollouts, A/B testing, and prompt tuning.
Governance & Security: RBAC, least-privilege access, secure secrets management, private networking, and compliance with audit standards.
Tooling & Platforms: Familiarity with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, Azure AI Search/RAG, AKS, KAITO patterns, and evidence storage solutions (e.g., S3-compatible WORM).
Eventing & Streaming: Experience with Kafka/Confluent, schema registry, and consumer group patterns.
Delivery Engineering: CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions), IaC (Bicep/Terraform), and Kubernetes operator patterns.
Tools & Environment (representative):·
Editor: VS Code (Copilot Chat/Agents)
Languages: C#/.NET; Python & TypeScript for POCs
Cloud: Azure (AKS, Key Vault, Blob/ADLS, App Gateway/Ingress, Monitor/Log Analytics)
AI/Agents: Foundry Agent Service / MAF; Azure AI Search
Storage: S3-compatible + Azure Blob with tiering
Diagrams: Mermaid (Markdown), C4
Docs: Markdown in repo (/docs); ADRs in /docs/adr
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
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.
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Compensation:
105,800.00 - 185,450.00 USDThis 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.
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.