Lead Product Software Engineer

BASIC FUNCTIONS Wolters Kluwer dxg/* Corporate & Legal Compliance (CLC) division is looking for a Lead Product Software Engineer to join our CLC CT team in the New York Office Corporate & Legal Compliance (CLC) is a division of Wolters Kluwer that provides a broad spectrum of solutions, services, and expertise to legal, finance, risk and compliance professionals and small business owners to help manage myriad governance, risk and compliance challenges in dynamic markets and regulatory environments, globally. GRC Solutions serves more than 350,000 customers in more than 150 countries, including 70% of Fortune 500 companies, 92% of the world’s top banks, 90% of the Am Law 100 and more than 300,000 small businesses. The division has a global footprint, with a workforce in 28 countries. Our clients include corporate legal departments, insurers, small businesses, financial services companies, brand professionals, underwriters, governments, and compliance & risk professionals. CLC CT business unit contains our expert information services for businesses that serve large corporations, small businesses, and law firms. This group specializes incorporation and legal business compliance solutions and clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals. This business area brings its solutions to market as CT, which serves corporations and small businesses. Candidate Profile: Join CT to help lead the ongoing and future development of a broad suite of market leading legal software applications. This suite of applications runs solely in Cloud hosted infrastructure and is designed with a modernized Windows stack and Linux platform serving both large and small companies. Take on the challenge of managing multiple development teams, solving everyday problems, and guiding the next generation platform as it evolves as part of a multi-year Digital Transformation effort. This role requires extensive experience implementing complex systems, software, micro services in traditional, cloud, and SaaS environments. The ideal candidate has proven industry experience in leading development teams through design and delivery with hands‑on experience. The candidate must demonstrate strong design skills including software design patterns, architecture design patterns, data modeling, interface design, REST API design, and performance design. The candidate should have experience managing mission critical production applications and managing application operations and familiarity with Information Security principles. The role calls for excellent communication and analytical skills to present ideas in a clear and concise manner. Ability to collaborate and communicate with multiple stakeholders including product managers and IT leadership. The candidate must have an attitude of continuous learning, continuous improvement, innovation and driving results. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Lead one or more software development teams located onsite/near‑shore/off‑shoreand deliver projects with quality built‑in for new and existing products. Work with the other Engineering leaders as well as Product Management to determine the requirements necessary to deliver roadmap items. Analyze and research alternate solutions options, develop POCs or prototypes and make recommendations. Develop solution design and detail design for large complex line‑of‑business applications which integrates with multiple products, systems and platforms. Hands on experience with ability to code platform components. Model complex software systems, design interfaces, data models and system integrations to meet business and non‑functional requirements around security, performance and resilience. Lead coordination and communication across Development team, Product Managers, Product Owners, Project Mangers, Operations team, and QA teams for development projects. Work with product managers and management on prioritization, scope definition, cost & effort estimations, risk/issue resolutions for respective components/projects. Own the delivery of products and features as defined by the product roadmap coordinated with Product Management. Adhere to existing agile software development policies and procedures and develop new procedures and standards in software process improvement initiatives. Evaluate, recommend, and implement new technologies for software development. Stay abreast of current trends and technologies and introduce them into development process. Interpersonal Skills Believer -- Believer in Agile and DevOps Servant Leader - earn the team's respect and roll up your sleeves to help the team succeed Learner -- passionate learner of new technologies Results focused -- reduce time to value for customer Communicative and social - excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types. Situationally Aware - must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate. Proven problem‑solver. Enthusiastic - must be high-energy and situationally aware. An active participant in all team activities. A passionate advocate. Attitude of transparency - must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about the team and grow business trust. Creativity, initiative, and flexibility - tempered by pragmatism, patience, and attention to detail. Other Duties Work with Operations and DevOps team to setup application environment and CI/CD pipeline. Present solution and detail design for review and approval to Architecture Review Board. Work with customer support team to troubleshoot and resolve application issues. Work with senior management on strategical planning and change management. Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor. Job Qualifications Education: Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science or related major Experience A minimum of 10+ years of experience in an information technology-based position. A minimum of 5+ years of experience managing a team and leading complex and challenging projects. A minimum of 2+ years of developing solutions using Microsoft Azure, along with C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, MVC, REST API, Entity Framework, JavaScript. Working knowledge and programing experience with Azure services – ASE, Functions, Web Job, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Service Bus, Key Vault, Azure SQL & Cosmos. Development experience with Web Standards and Front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and UI using Angular, Bootstrap or other UI Frameworks. Working experience with Oracle and MS SQL Server is required. Some familiarity with NoSQL is a plus. Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications Preferred Experience with architecture/design patterns and re-usability concepts, SOLID principles and database design. Experience in developing web services and micro-service architecture applications. Experience with API first design approach and familiar with OpenAPI, Swagger specification is a plus. Experience in providing technical guidance and leadership and conducting design and code reviews. Experience with Application Security via OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities list, and mitigation strategies. Experience in Agile/Scrum/SAFe development practices. Experience with DevOps release/deployment processes. Professional, precise communication skills. Experience in AI-powered coding assistant. 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 $139,800.00 - $245,000.00 USD This 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