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You’ll be supported by collaborative colleagues who share a purpose. We are 21,000 people unique in our dreams, life stories, abilities, and passions who come together every day with one ambition: to make a difference. We do our best work together, connecting to create new innovations with impact.
About the Role:
We are hiring a Lead Product Software Engineer to drive the engineering strategy and leadership across a multi-layered analytics ecosystem that powers enterprise decision-making. This role is ideal for someone who combines technical depth, architectural thinking, and cross-functional leadership in building scalable, secure, and governed data platforms.
The role has a strong focus on engineering excellence, platform reliability, and team enablement. While there is an aspect of guiding and shaping engineering practices, a solid hands-on foundation in Python, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native data operations is essential to effectively mentor the team, make informed decisions, and uphold platform standards.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Define and own the data engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, architectural standards, and operational KPIs.
Lead and mentor data engineers, fostering a culture of autonomy, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption (Terraform) and cloud-native engineering practices across the platform.
Oversee CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions integration for data workflows, ensuring reliable and secure deployments.
Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams to evolve the ecosystem.
Ensure engineering practices are aligned with company-wide standards
Guide the team in building scalable, maintainable, and observable data pipelines using Python and Azure services.
Partner with QA, product, and analytics teams to embed reliability and governance early in the development lifecycle.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Proven experience leading engineering efforts in cloud-native, analytics-driven environments.
Strong proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
Deep understanding of Azure services, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub Actions.
Good communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
Skilled in mentoring and developing engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical growth.
Experience working in Agile environments, including Scrum and SAFe frameworks.
Familiarity with Azure data services.
Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and secure data operations
Our Offer:
Room for personal development through external, internal training tools and learning and development program #GROW. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong
Annual incentive plan based on division financial performance and your seniority
Referral bonus, meal vouchers, monthly allowance, gift vouchers twice a year
Corporate Health Insurance
Mindfulness and Wellbeing programs (Wellbeats, MyQuillibrium, Compsych, Mind & Body webinars)
Up to 28 days of annual leave based on seniority
We have a strong Work from Home culture and take into consideration punctual needs and more
Flexible working schedule. You’ll find the flexibility for balance in your life
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.
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading engineering efforts in cloud-native, analytics-driven environments
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Deep understanding of Azure services, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub Actions
- Good communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Skilled in mentoring and developing engineers
- Experience working in Agile environments, including Scrum and SAFe frameworks
- Familiarity with Azure data services
- Understanding of data governance and secure data operations
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
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What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
