Principal Architect, DevSecOps

Wolters Kluwer•Babylon, NY

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a hands‑on, technically credible Principal Architect, DevSecOps to co‑lead the DevSecOps Center of Excellence and define the enterprise architecture, standards, and golden paths for secure software delivery. This role operates at the intersection of a mature engineering organization and established centers of excellence. The Principal Architect partners closely with DXG leadership and the GBS team to own CI/CD pipeline architecture, security integration, DevSecOps tooling strategy, and engineering adoption, while jointly governing the DevSecOps maturity model across the enterprise. This is not a coordination or program management role. The successful candidate actively builds solutions, develops reference implementations, and leads through deep technical expertise. Influence is earned through hands‑on contribution, architectural insight, and the ability to translate security and platform standards into practical, scalable engineering practices. The ideal candidate combines strong software and platform engineering skills with DevSecOps and security depth, enabling teams to deliver software that is secure, automated, and production‑ready by design.

Requirements

8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or security engineering — including at least 4 years in a principal, staff, or lead architect role with demonstrable enterprise-scale impact.
Proven track record designing and scaling CI/CD pipeline architecture and DevSecOps practices in large, complex engineering organizations, hands-on architecture and implementation ownership, not advisory roles.
Experience co-leading or leading a Centre of Excellence, engineering practice, or cross-functional standards body with real decision rights and measurable outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to operate as a peer with other senior technical leaders and CoEs — building standards collaboratively, resolving domain boundary conflicts constructively, and driving joint outcomes without subordinating other parties.
Hands-on experience building golden paths, internal developer platforms, or reference implementations that engineering teams have actually adopted at scale.
Practical experience integrating security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management) into CI pipelines and developer workflows as automated, low-friction controls.
Ability to operate with authority in a co-leadership model — making joint decisions, navigating disagreement constructively, and maintaining a productive partnership under pressure.
Strong communication skills across audiences: architectural decisions to engineering leadership, security requirements translated into engineering patterns, CoE representation at governance forums.
Willingness to lead by doing: write the reference implementation, pair with engineering teams, and demonstrate what good looks like rather than describing it.