Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax

Wolters Kluwer N.V.

coppell, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Adverse Events, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Application Programming Interface (API), Applications Security, Architectural Services, Caching, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Modeling, Distributed Computing, Diversity, Documentation, Employee Retention, Financial Audit, GitHub, Leadership, Microservices, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET (Active Server Page), Microsoft C# (C Sharp), Microsoft Windows Azure, Model Review, Onboarding, Operational Audit, Operations Research, Performance Testing, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Quality Assurance Methodology, Refactoring, Risk, Scaffolding, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Tax Accounting, Technical Leadership, Testability, Threat Modeling, Writing Skills
LOCATION
coppell, TX
POSTED
30+ days ago

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting creates solutions to optimize your entire firm with industry-leading integration and innovations to transform your tax, accounting, audit, firm operations, and research workflows.

We're modernizing core Tax platforms and services to a resilient, event driven architecture with Confluent Kafka and Temporal workflows, while evolving legacy .NET codebases to current standards.

As the Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax, you will be the technical bar raiser who can deep dive into code with engineers and influence senior leadership with crisp architectural narratives.

In this role, you will report to the Principal Application & Product Architect; and work a hybrid schedule (2 days in office, 3 days at home) from our Coppell, TX office.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Delivery

  • Define and drive product and platform architecture for Tax services, with a focus on event driven and workflow orchestrated designs (Temporal) and streaming (Confluent Kafka). Lead decisions on patterns, integration contracts, data models, resiliency, and observability.
  • Review and guide .NET application code and solution designs (.NET 6/8, ASP.NET Core), elevating code quality, testability, security posture, and performance. Partner with teams on upgrade roadmaps and dependency hygiene.
  • Own high risk technical spikes and POCs; rapidly validate approaches using VS Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate engineering feedback loops.
  • Provide clear decision records (ADRs) and architectural documentation, and lead design reviews per Architecture CoE policies; champion reuse where practical.

Modernization & Platform Adoption

  • Lead migration/modernization efforts (modularization, API first, messaging, caching strategies), aligning with the TAA modernization milestones (Temporal orchestration, Kafka onboarding) and platform guardrails.
  • Collaborate with Platform Engineering to onboard domains to Confluent Cloud; set partitioning, schema strategy, consumer group patterns, and SLAs. Guide performance testing and tuning practices.

Security, Risk & Governance

  • Ensure threat modeling and Security Review / SRTM artifacts are produced and signed off; partner with Security Champions and AppSec CoE to meet standards.

Leadership & Communication

  • Translate complex design tradeoffs into concise executive communication and product decisioning. Coach squads and tech leads; elevate design maturity across teams via templates, patterns, and learning sessions.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in architecture for SaaS products; prior lead/principal scope in complex distributed systems. (Leveling guidance aligned to lead architect baseline.)
  • Strong hands-on depth with .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, API design), code review, refactoring, and performance profiling.
  • Proven delivery of modernization programs (monolith to modular/microservices, event driven patterns, API first, cloud native).
  • Practical experience with Kafka (Confluent preferred): topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry, connectors, and end to end performance testing/tuning.
  • Practical experience with Temporal (or equivalent workflow engines) for long running orchestrations and reliability patterns.
  • Fluency with VS Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate POCs, scaffolding, and code reviews.
  • Expertise in architecture qualities/NFRs (availability, scalability, security, resilience, cost) and observability.
  • Excellent written & verbal communication\u2014able to dive deep with engineers and rise above for leadership alignment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Tax or adjacent accounting domains; familiarity with compliance, data lineage, and auditability concerns reflected in TAA programs.
  • Hands on with cloud services (Azure/AWS), container platforms, CI/CD, IaC, secrets/identity, and API gateways.
  • Experience leading ARC/ARB reviews and promoting reusable assets per Architecture CoE.
  • Familiarity with application security practices (OWASP, STRIDE, SAST/DAST), and our internal SRTM/reporting requirements.

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

Diversity Matters:

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.

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

About the Company

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Wolters Kluwer N.V.

At Wolters Kluwer, we excel at creating content solutions for use in a professional context in the fields of health, corporate services, finance, tax, accounting, law, regulation, and education. We are professionals serving professionals and are committed to delivering essential content, software, and services to help our customers make their most critical business decisions. Utilizing the latest in information technology, we ensure that our customers have the solutions they need, when they need them, and in the media best suited to their requirements. When we achieve this, we deliver on our goal of being the market leader in content in context.

Partners in Innovation
Wolters Kluwer professionals are continuously engaged in an ongoing exchange of expertise and ideas with our customers about their work. This partnership in innovation is at the heart of meeting our commitment to the lawyers, doctors, nurses, tax advisors, teachers, and business executives we serve. Knowledge of their professional workflows and the ability to apply emerging technologies to make them more efficient and productive are at the heart of this partnership.

Leading Positions and Brands
Strong market positions are very important to our business strategies at Wolters Kluwer, and we value the leading positions we hold in most of our markets. Across all of our markets, we own strong, enduring brands in North America such as Adis International, Aspen Publishers, Bankers Systems, CCH, ClineGuide, CT Corporation, Kluwer, Facts & Comparisons, IFI Claims, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Loislaw, Medi-Span, Ovid Technologiesand Skolar. These brands have promised and delivered high quality information for decades, and we are committed to continuing to do everything necessary to earn, retain, and expand leadership positions in our selected markets.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1836
WEBSITE
http://wolterskluwer.com/