Wolters Kluwer · 1 week ago
Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax
Coppell, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$106K/yr - $185K/yr
10+ years expWolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting creates solutions to optimize your entire firm with industry-leading integration and innovations. As the Lead Application & Product Architect, Tax, you will define and drive product and platform architecture for Tax services, collaborating with teams to modernize core Tax platforms and ensure high-quality deliverables.
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Responsibilities
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
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
Ensure threat modeling and Security Review / SRTM artifacts are produced and signed off; partner with Security Champions and AppSec CoE to meet standards
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
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$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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