Principal Application & Product Architect

Job Duties

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead technology team within architecting highly scalable/reliable/secure cloud-based product.
• Lead the review of application security posture with the assigned product security champions.
• Lead the effort to identify technology stack, design decision, deployment architecture and its documentation.
• Document and work through with all required stakeholders, the various architectural “..ilities” associated with an architecture and be able to justify the choices made during review.
• Participate in periodic code review with architects and software engineers.
• Collaborate with the Architecture Review Board for architecture review and finalization.
• Work with IT Ops for infrastructure needs definition and creation of the infrastructure.

Experience

• 12+ Years in enterprise software development
• 5+ year of experience in Architecture and design of cloud-based products
• Demonstrated ability to successfully managed a team of architects in an architectural practice; successfully delivering Software as a Service systems in that environment.
• Understanding of and experience with an agile SDLC
• Experience in product release cycle, best practices, code reviews and defect management. Efficient in handling changes and enhancements.
• Good database concepts and hands on in design and development.
• Experience in localization and globalization, security, performance, integration with third party components and applications.
• Ensure best design practices and processes are followed for continuous improvement of product.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent field.

Technical Experience:

• Understands and conversant with cloud patterns:
  • Scale out, scale up and load balancing.
  • Patterns required to ensure Highly Available and Reliable applications.
  • Failover at various tiers
  • How to leverage cloud elasticity
  • Side by side development and deployment (Blue/Green)
  • Multi-Tenancy
• Strong understanding of Web technologies, i.e., HTTP/HTTP2, REST, GRPC
• Strong knowledge of at least one cloud platform, with a strong preference for Azure but familiarity with AWS; including Security principles and practices
• Strong communication skills, able to sustain conversations with business stakeholders, include C-Suite executives, application and infrastructure architects and individual developers.
• Good understanding of cryptography
• Strong ability to communicate technology selection process and the tradeoffs evaluated as part of the process.
• Strong understanding and experience HTML5, CSS, JSON and JS libraries
• Experience in Agile Methodologies/Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD) & Unit Testing.

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.