Lead Product Software Architect — AI & Data

Wolters Kluwer delivers expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with advanced technology, enabling professionals to make better decisions, stay compliant with complex regulations, and improve outcomes. Its portfolio spans industries such as Health, Tax & Accounting, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), and Legal & Regulatory. Innovation, digital transformation, and responsible business practices are core to Wolters Kluwer’s long-term strategy.

We’re building AI-powered capabilities directly into customer-delivered software — not demos, not labs. This role owns the architecture that turns our data estate into an AI-ready product platform and makes AI features reliable, governable, secure, and scalable in production. You’ll lead the modernization of our product data estate (schemas, pipelines, contracts, governance, and access patterns) so we can ship AI/ML and GenAI capabilities quickly and safely. 

• A clear AI + Data reference architecture that product teams can execute without heroics: from ingestion → curation → feature/embedding layers → serving → monitoring. 
• A modernized data estate that supports rapid iteration: schema evolution, lineage, quality gates, and scalable access patterns (batch + real-time/event-driven where needed). 
• AI capabilities that are production-grade: measurable quality, observable, performant, fully automated deployments, governance, and cost-optimized. 

• Translate business goals and product requirements into end-to-end architecture for AI features (e.g. predictive ML, recommendations, GenAI, agentic workflows).
• Define integration patterns between product services, data systems, and AI components (APIs, including MCP/A2A, ARG, events, model/agent serving, evaluation harnesses). 
• Evaluate NFR tradeoffs and ensure delivery adherence (e.g. latency, cost, security, resiliency, and maintainability). 

• Lead modernization of legacy data estates into a governed, scalable architecture (lakehouse/data mesh patterns, curated layers, data products, and contracts). 
• Drive improvements in data quality, lineage, metadata, and discoverability — treat data pipelines as software (versioning, testing, CI/CD).
• Establish canonical models/semantic patterns that support analytics and AI/ML workloads (features/embeddings, training/serving parity).

• Define standards and reusable patterns for: feature stores, model registries, experiment tracking, promotion workflows, drift monitoring, and retraining.
• Build reference implementations and enable teams to ship features repeatedly — moving from PoC to governed production delivery.
• Own architectural testing/validation practices for AI components: quality, robustness, security, and performance.

• Embed responsible AI and governance controls into the lifecycle: auditability, transparency, bias/risk considerations, and secure-by-design patterns.
• Partner with Security/Privacy/Legal to ensure our AI and data systems meet obligations without killing delivery velocity. 

• Act as a technical leader and mentor: clarify direction, unblock teams, and raise the architecture/engineering bar through reviews, guidance, and coaching. 
• Communicate complex tradeoffs clearly — influence product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders with pragmatic options and crisp decisions. 

• 8–12+ years building and evolving complex software products (SaaS/distributed systems required), including architectural leadership.
• Proven experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI into customer-facing software (not just internal analytics) — shipping to production with monitoring and operations. 
• Hands-on experience modernizing data estates: data modeling, integration, pipelines, lineage, and scalable storage/compute patterns. 
• Experience designing secure AI systems (threat modeling for prompt injection/data leakage, model supply chain controls, etc.).
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture concepts: curated layers, governance, data products/contracts, and event-driven/streaming where needed. 
• Practical DataOps/MLOps understanding: environments, CI/CD, promotion gates, drift detection, rollback/incident patterns, and operational monitoring. 
• Ability to write and maintain high-quality architecture artifacts: blueprints, specs, ADRs, and reference implementations that teams actually use.

• Experience with lakehouse/data mesh transformations at scale and implementing strong governance/catalog patterns. 

• 36–40 hour working week with flexible working hours
• Hybrid working model (up to 2 office days per week)
• Competitive salary aligned with senior-level responsibility
• 25 vacation days (based on 40 hours)
• 50% pension contribution reimbursed by Wolters Kluwer
• Informal, collaborative working environment with regular events
• Daily lunch buffet (provided by company), fresh fruit, and great coffee

If you are excited about owning meaningful product outcomes in a regulated, high-impact domain—and want to help shape the future of accounting software—we would love to hear from you.

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Marijke van Liempt - Senior Corporate Recruiter

Email: Marijke.vanliempt@wolterskluwer.com

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

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