Principal Application & Product Architect

Principal Application & Product ArchitectSkip to main contentWelcome to our Wolters Kluwer website. We use Cookies to optimize the use of our website. You can find more information about the used cookies and technologies on our Careers Privacy & Cookies page.# Wolters KluwerPrincipal Application & Product Architect page is loaded## Principal Application & Product ArchitectApplyremote type: Hybrid (8 days/month)locations: USA - Tampa, FLtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 30+ Days Agojob requisition id: R0055412# Principal Application & Product Architect## Role SummaryWe are seeking a Principal Application & Product Architect to provide technical leadership for the TeamMate product suite, with a strong emphasis on security, FedRAMP compliance, and customer‐facing technical leadership.This role is responsible for defining and governing application and platform architecture, partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering Leadership, and serving as a trusted technical authority for internal teams, auditors, and customers. The Principal Architect plays a critical role in ensuring TeamMate solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with long‐term product strategy.**Key Responsibilities**### Architecture & Technical Strategy* Ability to learn and maintain large existing code bases, in addition to owning and evolving the application and product architecture for TeamMate products, ensuring alignment with business strategy and long‐term roadmap.* Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across engineering teams.* Lead architectural decision‐making for new features, major refactors, and modernization initiatives.* Drive architectural consistency across legacy and modernized components.**Security & Compliance*** Act as a technical lead for FedRAMP and security‐related initiatives, including audits, penetration testing, and remediation efforts.* Partner with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectures meet FedRAMP, regulatory, and enterprise security requirements.* Review and guide remediation of vulnerabilities, obsolete libraries, and security risks.* Serve as a key technical contact for external security assessors, auditors, and customer security teams.**Product & Engineering Collaboration*** Work closely with Product Management to translate business requirements into technically sound, scalable designs.* Provide architectural guidance during PI planning, feature slicing, and estimation.* Clearly communicate scope, complexity, and trade‐offs when requirements change or expand.* Review designs, technical debt initiatives, and performance improvements.**Technical Leadership & Mentorship*** Mentor and guide architects and senior engineers, elevating architectural maturity across teams.* Facilitate design reviews and architectural forums.* Promote a culture of incremental value delivery, clarity, and technical excellence.**Customer & External Engagement*** Serve as a clear, confident technical communicator in customer‐facing discussions involving architecture, security, and compliance.* Support customer conversations related to penetration testing, security posture, and architectural decisions.* Represent TeamMate engineering in cross‐organizational and external technical discussions.**Experience*** 15+ years in enterprise software development* 7+ years of experience in Architecture and design of cloud-based products* Demonstrated knowledge and experience in Microsoft .NET based technologies (.NET Framework, .NET ‘Core’, SQL Server)* Practical experience developing solutions with cloud vendors including PaaS services and containers, with deep domain knowledge in Azure* Practical experience developing modular systems with loosely coupled architecture* Experience architecting scalable, performant and secure solutions in a hosted/SaaS environment* Familiarity with Containerization and its implementation* Demonstrated ability to successfully lead, collaborate and influence a team of architects in an architectural practice; successfully delivering Software as a Service systems in that environment.* Experience in localization and globalization, security, performance, integration with third party components and applications.* Experience in product release cycle, best practices, code reviews and defect management.* Good database concepts and hands on in design and development.* Strong experience in architecting and designing secure solutions.* Demonstrated ability in ensuring best design practices and processes are followed for continuous improvement of product.* Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with business stakeholders and engineering teams* Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent fieldPreferred Experience* OWASP ASVS v4 or latest knowledge preferred* Preference for experience in FedRAMP security requirements and environments* Preference for familiarity with AI enabled SDLC practices such as Spec-Driven Development (SDD)* Understanding of and experience with an agile SDLC, preferable knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)* Experience in AI implementation leveraging LLM’s for GenAI as well as architecting systems for Agentic workflows## Our Interview Practices*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.**Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.***Compensation:**$133,400.00 - $238,400.00 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.*## **Additional Information**: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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Wolters Kluwer N.V.