Wolters Kluwer · 3 hours ago
Director, Product Software Engineering | Platform Engineering and Architecture
Coppell, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
9+ years expWolters Kluwer is seeking a Director in Software Engineering to lead a team of over 600 engineers focusing on developer enablement and infrastructure engineering. The role involves providing strategic leadership, overseeing the development of container-based software, and ensuring alignment with business objectives while driving technological advancements.
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Hiring Manager
John O'Hara
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership, vision, and roadmaps for developer enablement and infrastructure engineering in a highly matrixed organization; ensure alignment with business objectives and partner teams
Establish clear objectives, success measures, and investment priorities for the platform, balancing reliability, velocity, cost, and risk
Model inclusive collaboration and effective communication with senior management, peers, and subordinates to drive alignment and execution
Drive adoption of AI Developer Tools to drive speed to market and reduce developer friction
Lead the Developer Enablement team that owns the platform for releasing container-based software to Kubernetes (K8s); define platform SLAs/SLOs, roadmaps, and service catalog
Own Akuity/Argo CD (GitOps) administration and lifecycle; define guardrails, RBAC, multi-cluster promotion strategies, and drift detection/rollback practices
Maintain and evolve Open Application Model (OAM) templates, golden paths, and paved-road workflows to standardize microservice onboarding and runtime config
Govern end-to-end container release processes (policy, controls, approvals, and tooling), including promotion workflows, artifact provenance (SBOM/SLSA), and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary)
Integrate and Maintain Developer Enablement metrics reporting into central data lake environments
Staff, train, and mature a new team that becomes the core of infrastructure development and SRE; define role architecture, hiring profiles, onboarding plans, and growth paths
Deliver platform capabilities as products (self-service, APIs, documentation, runbooks), enabling product teams to design, provision, and operate infrastructure consistently
Train and assist engineering teams with infrastructure design and deployment (networking, storage, data, security, observability), while performing hands-on engineering to ensure deployments and operations are fully automated (IaC, GitOps, policy-as-code, CI/CD)
Establish site reliability practices—SLO/SLI, error budgets, incident management, post-incident reviews, and capacity/performance engineering—aligned with product objectives
Define release governance and change management controls (e.g., segregation of duties, approval workflows, audit trails) integrated into platform tooling, partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance for continuous assurance
Ensure adherence to quality standards and secure-by-design practices across the software supply chain
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a related field and relevant experience in product software engineering
Minimum 9+ years of relevant experience in product software engineering or platform/SRE leadership roles
People management experience
Experience in Matrixed environments
Knowledge and interest in AI
Technical competence in platform engineering and architecture
Technical/Operational Skills
DevOps & Agile delivery; automation and continuous delivery at scale
Cloud computing (Azure/AWS/GCP) and modern application architectures; API-first enablement
Automation & Frameworks for standardized delivery and code manageability across teams
Application Security and secure SDLC; Architectural Patterns for scalable, resilient systems
Financial/Budget Management for platform services and shared-service cost models that includes understanding of how to use technology to drive cost reductions while increasing value delivery. This requires budget, technical and operational competencies
Experience in both use of AI Coding tools personally and in driving adoption of those in developer teams
Accountability; Judgement & Decision-Making; Business Acumen to drive measurable outcomes
Inclusive Collaboration; Inspiration & Alignment; Courage to take smart risks that enable innovation
People Management: delegation, coaching, performance management, and talent development
Preferred
Platform engineering for Kubernetes at scale (multi-cluster/multi-region), GitOps (Argo CD/Akuity), service meshes, secrets management
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts/Flagger)
CI/CD at enterprise scale (artifact provenance, SBOM/SLSA), container security, and supply chain controls
Observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerts) and incident management practices
Coaching product teams; operating in a matrixed enterprise with strong stakeholder management
Benefits
Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Commuter Benefits
Tuition Assistance Plan
Vacation and Sick Time
Paid Parental Leave
Company
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is an information services company specializing in software solutions and services for the healthcare and legal sectors.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.78B2025-06-23Post Ipo Debt· $578.76M
2025-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $542.74M
2024-03-11Post Ipo Debt· $655.84M
Leadership Team
Jason Marx
CEO, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting
Nancy McKinstry
CEO
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