Lead Application & Product Architect - Solution Architect

You will report to the Principal Application & Product Architect and work a hybrid work schedule from our local Coppell, TX office. (2 days in office, 3 days remote)
** Outcomes & Measures: (examples)
*** Architecture documentation (with diagrams) delivered within 30 days.
* NFR catalog and dashboards live for latency, throughput, error budgets, and index freshness.
* Well-Architected assessment completed with prioritized actions and owners.
* At least two POC readouts per quarter, including ADRs and go/no-go decisions.
* Performance: p95 ≤ 300 ms baseline for key workflows; ≤ 600 ms at 3× corpus.
* Reliability:
Service SLO 99.9% monthly; DR RPO/RTO ≤ 15 minutes.
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* Qualifications:

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* Experience:

** 10+ years in software engineering; 5+ years in solution/product architecture for SaaS or distributed systems.
* ** Cloud Expertise:
** Deep Azure (or equivalent) knowledge—AKS/Kubernetes, Key Vault, object storage/ADLS, networking/ingress, observability; proven application of Azure Well-Architected principles.
* ** Technical

Skills:

** Advanced .NET/C# (ASP.NET Core, API design, performance profiling); ability to reverse-engineer legacy code and lead refactoring.
* ** AI & Dev Tools:
** Proficient with VS Code and Git Hub Copilot for code exploration, test/document generation, and diagram scaffolding; strong prompt discipline.
* ** Architecture Practices:
** Skilled in clear documentation, C4/Mermaid diagrams, sequence flows, and ADR authoring aligned with governance.
* ** POC Delivery:
** Capable of building spikes across storage, indexing/search, agentic flows, and APIs; able to measure and report latency, cost, and robustness.
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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* ** AI Agent Design & Orchestration:
** Practical experience with agent design patterns and orchestration topologies (hierarchical, planner–executor, pipeline, swarm), task decomposition, dynamic routing, and tool selection with guardrails.
* ** Retrieval & Evidence (RAG):
** Expertise in retrieval-augmented generation, document chunking, provenance tracking, evidence binding, and index schema design for explainability.
* ** Memory & State Management:
** Conversational, long-term, and thread memory; lineage tracking; immutable evidence stores (e.g., WORM).
* ** Evaluation & Safety:
** Self-critique loops, confidence scoring, HITL gating, audit trails, policy checks, and red-team scenarios.
* ** Communication & Coordination:
** Contract-first messaging, pub-sub patterns, idempotent commands, and failure-aware retries.
* ** Observability & Testing:
** Agent-level logging, KPIs, trace replay, synthetic evaluations, canary rollouts, A/B testing, and prompt tuning.
* ** Governance & Security:
** RBAC, least-privilege access, secure secrets management, private networking, and compliance with audit standards.
* ** Tooling & Platforms:
** Familiarity with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, Azure AI Search/RAG, AKS, KAITO patterns, and evidence storage solutions (e.g., S3-compatible WORM).
* ** Eventing & Streaming:
** Experience with Kafka/Confluent, schema registry, and consumer group patterns.
* ** Delivery Engineering:
** CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub Actions), IaC (Bicep/Terraform), and Kubernetes operator patterns.
** Tools & Environment (representative):**·
* ** Editor:
** VS Code (Copilot Chat/Agents)
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* Languages:

** C#/.NET;
Python & Type Script for POCs
* ** Cloud:
** Azure (AKS, Key Vault, Blob/ADLS, App Gateway/Ingress, Monitor/Log Analytics)
* ** AI/Agents:
** Foundry Agent Service / MAF;
Azure AI Search
* ** Storage:
** S3-compatible + Azure Blob with tiering
* ** Diagrams:
** Mermaid (Markdown), C4
* ** Docs:
** Markdown in repo (/docs); ADRs in /docs/adr
** Benefits:
** A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment.
** Additional Information:
** Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including
** 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 -## ## Diversity Matters:

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