Lead Application & Product Architect, .Net/AI

As a Lead Application and Product Architect, you play a crucial role in independently executing specialized architectural tasks and supporting broader team projects. Your focus will be on creating innovative, integrated architectural solutions that drive product excellence. You will be instrumental in ensuring quality outcomes through your expertise and leadership in technical planning, design, and implementation.

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:

• Conduct thorough analysis of business and stakeholder requirements.

• Independently develop advanced architectural models and blueprints.

• Lead evaluations of product-service compatibility and integration techniques.

• Develop and maintain high-quality technical specifications.

• Oversee technical planning and ensure alignment with strategic goals.

• Execute in-depth testing, validation, and optimization of architectural components.

• Ensure adherence to organizational standards and industry best practices.

• Identify and resolve complex integration issues and technical challenges.

• Document and communicate detailed design updates and modifications.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to ensure successful project outcomes.

Skills:

• Specialized Architectural Knowledge: Advanced understanding of specialized application/product architecture.

• Independent Execution: Ability to independently execute and lead architectural tasks.

• Strategic Planning: Skilled in strategic technical planning and alignment with business goals.

• Comprehensive Design Tools Use: Proficiency in advanced design and architectural tools (e.g., Enterprise Architect).

• Quality Assurance Expertise: In-depth knowledge of ensuring and maintaining architectural quality.

• Advanced Problem-Solving: Proficient in identifying and resolving complex technical issues.

• Detailed Documentation: Ability to produce comprehensive and detailed technical specifications.

• Leadership: Strong leadership skills in guiding teams and supporting project success.

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.

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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.

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

Compensation:

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.