Distinguished Architect, Software Delivery Engineering - Cluj-Napoca

Distinguished Architect, Software Delivery Engineering
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania

Distinguished Architect, Software Delivery Engineering

Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, governance, risk & compliance, and legal & regulatory sectors.  Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. The Company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 22, 000 people worldwide. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way they do business, and build better judicial and regulatory systems.

We are seeking a seasoned and visionary Distinguished Architect, Software Delivery Engineering to lead the evolution of our Dev
Sec
Ops practices and Developer Platform across a global, complex, and highly diverse engineering organization. Reporting to the SVP, Engineering Excellence & Operations, this role will serve as a senior technical leader, change agent, and cultural influencer responsible for driving innovation, alignment, and consistency in how we build, test, secure, and deploy software at scale.

This role will influence our engineering footprint spanning over 9000 people (staff and contractors) across all Wolters Kluwer divisions and approximately 600 product applications. The role will
- lead our Dev
Sec
Ops Center of Excellence in partnership with a peer from our Global Business Services (GBS) organization and will collaborate closely with divisional architects and stakeholders from quality, operations, and infrastructure.

This is a
- impact,
- on leadership role for someone energized by complexity, driven by outcomes, and passionate about transforming software engineering through automation, platform thinking, and the application of modern tools — including Gen
AI.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic LeadershipDefine and drive the
- year Dev
Sec
Ops roadmap across a heterogeneous ecosystem of technology stacks and deployment models. Co-lead the Dev
Sec
Ops Center of Excellence in partnership with the IT and operations architect from GBS.

Developer Platform OwnershipLead the design, development, and adoption of tools, frameworks, and capabilities to enhance developer productivity, satisfaction and deployment velocity. Help steer our Gen
AI strategy for software engineering by identifying
- impact use cases and delivering prototypes and tooling in collaboration with
- functional teams.

Common Engineering ApplicationsManage a small team supporting the development of core internal platforms including our data platform, time tracking solution, and APM platform. Provide architectural oversight and
- on support to the teams that build and maintain these platforms.

Change Agent and InfluencerCultivate a strong engineering culture around automation, observability, and
-
- default practices. Coach and influence engineering leaders globally to adopt modern delivery practices and converge on shared platform investments.

Team and Talent LeadershipLead a small but
- leverage team of lead architects and developers. Act as a multiplier by empowering others and creating scalable frameworks for shared success.

Cross-Organizational CollaborationWork with divisional architects, Quality Engineering Co
E, Security, Operations and Site Reliability teams to ensure alignment and synergy across initiatives.

Thought LeadershipRepresent the organization in strategic forums, architecture boards, and
- facing conversations.

Required Qualifications

8 years experience leading software delivery transformation or platform engineering initiatives in large, distributed, and matrixed organizations.

3 Years leadership experience

Strong architectural expertise in
- native design, Dev
Sec
Ops pipelines, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Demonstrated success in influencing and leading through change across diverse stakeholder groups.

Solid understanding of secure software development practices and regulatory considerations.

Experience with multiple development languages and environments.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Willingness and ability to travel internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience introducing Gen
AI tooling into software development environments.

Familiarity with platform engineering approaches and internal developer portals (e. g. , Backstage).

Exposure to legacy modernization strategies, including containerization and monolith decomposition.

Experience working in regulated environments or across business units with varying maturity levels.

Prior experience in
- leading Centers of Excellence or
- wide transformation initiatives.

A background in building or scaling internal developer platforms, engineering enablement functions, or SRE capabilities.

Experience working across both cloud (AWS, Azure) and
- premise environments.

Informații detaliate despre oferta de muncă

Firma:	Wolters Kluwer
Localiția:	Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Adăugat:	14. 8. 2025 Postul de muncă activ

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