Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax

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—able 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.## 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:**105,800.00 - 185,450.00 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.**Wolters Kluwer reported 2023 annual revenues of €5.6 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 21,400 people worldwide.**Our customers work in industries which impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the information, software solutions, and services they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and save time.Our expert solutions combine deep domain knowledge with technology to deliver both content and workflow automation to drive improved outcomes and productivity for our customers.We are committed to helping professionals improve the way they do business and solve complex problems with our range of digital solutions and services, which we continuously evolve to meet their changing needs. Our 188-year legacy and portfolio represent thousands of customers worldwide.For more information about our solutions and organization, visit , follow us on , , and .At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous.In 2024 we were awarded Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization, in recognition of our commitment to maintaining and enhancing the well-being of our colleagues through our ‘Together we thrive’ well-being program. #J-18808-Ljbffr