Shaping the future today – with Wolters Kluwer
For over 180 years we have been helping companies worldwide make their work processes simpler, more efficient and future-proof. With offices in more than 40 countries and customers in more than 180 markets, we are a global partner for expertise and technology.
Our solutions combine deep know-how with innovative technologies – including modern AI features – and help our customers successfully master their biggest challenges. More than 21,000 colleagues worldwide work together to make knowledge usable and rethink work processes.
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting (TAA)
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Deutschland GmbH, headquartered in Ludwigsburg, is part of the international Wolters Kluwer Group. With over 600 employees at 10 locations in Germany, we develop software solutions such as ADDISON, SBS-Software and AKTE, which support tax consulting firms and companies across Europe.
In Europe alone, more than 46,000 tax consulting firms and over 1.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises rely on our solutions.
About the position
As Lead Application & Product Architect (m/f/d), you take on a central technical role for our new cloud and AI solutions. You shape and are responsible for the architecture of these products and the overarching platform, and ensure that high implementation speed, AI-native development and technical excellence are sustainably combined. At the same time, you ensure that architecture decisions are compatible with Wolters Kluwer's security, compliance and governance requirements.
Your tasks
•You are responsible for the architecture of the new cloud and AI products as well as the overarching platform and ensure a consistent cloud-first, API-first and agentic-first orientation.
•You define architecture standards and technical guardrails and make architecture decisions with a view to scalability, maintainability, security, quality and technical risks.
•You analyze existing products, platforms and architectures and develop realistic evolution and migration paths, taking into account existing investments and technical dependencies.
•You are a technical sparring partner for product and engineering roles, conduct architecture, design and security reviews, and consistently represent technical decisions even in the face of differing stakeholder interests.
•You ensure that our solutions meet Wolters Kluwer's internal requirements for architecture, security, data protection, risk, compliance and governance, and work closely with the relevant control and governance functions for this purpose.
•Fluent German skills as well as very good English skills, written and spoken.
What excites us about you
•You have several years of experience as a Software Architect, Lead Architect or Principal Engineer and solid expertise in cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, distributed systems and integration architectures.
•You have experience with modern technology stacks, ideally Kotlin, Spring Boot, TypeScript and React, as well as with CI/CD, DevSecOps and automated quality gates.
•You have experience quickly understanding existing enterprise and legacy architectures and evolving them step by step.
•You are familiar with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance and Architecture Governance and can integrate corresponding requirements into technical solutions at an early stage.
•You convince through strong communication and assertiveness skills: you can convey complex technical contexts in an understandable way, moderate controversial discussions based on facts, and uphold viable architecture decisions even under high delivery pressure.
What excites you about us
•Secure future: You get a permanent full-time position in an international company as well as a company pension scheme with personal advice.
•Work-life balance: 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours and the possibility to work mobile on dedicated days – so the job fits your life.
•Working abroad: You can work flexibly abroad for up to 20 days within twelve months.
•Career development: We support you with structured onboarding, learning on the job, international career options, and internal and external training.
•Health & social engagement: Our Corporate Benefits program offers you everything from JobRad to life and pension advice. You also get an additional day off, the Volunteer Day, to support social projects. With our "Wolters Kluwer helps" program, we as a company also support social projects.
•Modern work environment: You work with powerful IT equipment, at modern workplaces with a shared desk system, free drinks and in well-connected office buildings.
•Team spirit: At our employee events and through our employee referral program, you experience real cohesion. Short decision paths, flat hierarchies and room for your ideas are a matter of course for us.
We are growing – grow with us
Here you can realize your ideas, develop further and grow. We have a lot to offer. Join us and shape the future together with us.
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.
