Principal Solution Architect, AI Agents

Wolters Kluwer; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global information and software services company seeks a Principal Solution Architect to design scalable AI solutions leveraging their GenAI platform. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to address technical challenges and enhance capabilities in healthcare, legal, tax, and compliance industries. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience and expertise in cloud-native architectures and AI agent development.

Benefits

Health and well-being benefits

Flexible working options

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering or solution architecture.
• Strong experience designing cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proven ability to prototype solutions and explain technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product teams to design scalable and reliable AI solutions.
• Provide consulting on best practices for AI agent development.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to improve platform capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud-native architecture

AI agent development

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Principal Solution Architect, AI Agents page is loaded## Principal Solution Architect, AI Agentsremote type: Hybrid (8 days/month)locations: NLD - Alphen Aan Den Rijn: GBR - London, Canada Square: FRA - Paris, La Défense: FRA - Paris, Rue des Archives: GBR - Kingstontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 16 Days Agojob requisition id: R0051734**#BETHEDIFFERENCE****If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.**As a Principal Solution Architect, Ai Agent, you will help product engineering teams design and implement scalable AI solutions that leverage WK's GenAI platform to drive impact in healthcare, legal, tax, and compliance industries. Your expertise will enable teams to deliver innovative solutions at scale.## About this roleOur team is building a central GenAI Platform to empower hundreds of product teams across the organization with scalable capabilities for rapid development, validation, and deployment of AI agents. As a **Principal Solution Architect**, you will play a critical role in enabling these teams to design and implement solutions that leverage the platform effectively.You’ll act as a trusted advisor, helping teams navigate technical challenges, design scalable architectures, and prototype solutions. In addition to creating proof-of-concepts to demonstrate best practices and accelerate adoption, you’ll play a key role in driving the evolution of the GenAI platform by identifying gaps, proposing enhancements, and collaborating with platform engineering teams to deliver new capabilities.This high-impact role requires a deep understanding of AI agent development, cloud-native architectures, and the ability to collaborate across diverse teams. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and domain experts to ensure the platform delivers measurable outcomes for the organization.## ## Tech stackYou don’t need to know all of these on day one, but you should be ready to learn quickly.* TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, LangChain, MCP/A2A, Rust* AWS (primary), Azure, GCP; Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions* DocumentDB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Azure AI Search* Azure OpenAI, AWS Anthropic, Google Gemini* GitHub, Confluence, Slack## ## What you’ll do* Partner with product teams to design scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that leverage the GenAI platform.* Provide technical consulting and guidance on best practices for AI agent development, deployment, and integration.* Rapidly prototype solutions to demonstrate platform capabilities and accelerate adoption.* Collaborate with platform engineering teams to identify and address gaps in platform capabilities based on customer needs.* Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design sessions to ensure solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements.* Act as a bridge between platform and product teams, ensuring alignment on technical and business goals.* Stay up-to-date with the latest AI/LLM patterns (RAG, retrieval, routing, tool-use, evals) and help teams apply them effectively.* Mentor engineers and promote knowledge sharing across teams.## ## Team context* **Org and Sub-teams**: Central GenAI Platform within Wolters Kluwer, driving innovation across businesses by creating re-usable platform services and components. Sub-teams are fewer than 10 engineers, focused on platform services or customer-facing agents.* **Culture and Reporting**: We value a "manager of one" mindset, where outcomes matter more than optics. Authority is earned through demonstrated impact, not tenure or title. You’ll report directly to the Director of Engineering, AI Platform.* **Team Size and Impact**: Our globally distributed team of ~100 engineers combines the stability of an established company with the agility of a startup. We are moving fast, and there are many areas where you can have a big impact.## ## Minimum qualifications* 8+ years of professional software engineering or solution architecture experience.* Strong experience designing and implementing cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).* Proven ability to rapidly prototype solutions and demonstrate technical concepts.* Excellent problem-solving, ownership, and cross-functional communication skills.## ## Nice to have* Expertise in health, legal, tax, or compliance domains.* Experience consulting or working directly with product teams to deliver AI solutions.* Familiarity with LangChain, MCP, vector/RAG systems, and OpenSearch.* Understanding of LLMs, their failure modes, and techniques like fine-tuning and model adaptation.* Experience with regulatory frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA, etc.* Proven ability to deliver software products independently or as part of a small, fast-paced team.## ## Your first months* **Month 1**: Deep dive into the GenAI platform by pairing and shadowing with a senior platform engineer. Deliver several small improvements to the platform to build familiarity with its architecture and capabilities.* **Month 2**: Partner with a product engineering team to understand their needs and help them build a prototype solution leveraging the GenAI platform.* **Month 3 and onwards**: Work across multiple teams to design and deliver prototypes, providing solution design, consulting, and technical guidance. Identify opportunities to enhance platform capabilities.* **By the end of year 1**: Contribute to taking some of the prototypes live to production, demonstrating measurable impact and scalability.##*Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.***Wolters Kluwer reported 2023 annual revenues of €5.6 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 21,400 people worldwide.**Our customers work in industries which impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the information, software solutions, and services they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and save time.Our expert solutions combine deep domain knowledge with technology to deliver both content and workflow automation to drive improved outcomes and productivity for our customers.We are committed to helping professionals improve the way they do business and solve complex problems with our range of digital solutions and services, which we continuously evolve to meet their changing needs. Our 188-year legacy and portfolio represent thousands of customers worldwide.For more information about our solutions and organization, visit , follow us on , , and .At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous.In 2024 we were awarded Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization, in recognition of our commitment to maintaining and enhancing the well-being of our colleagues through our ‘Together we thrive’ well-being program.