About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services across healthcare, tax & accounting, financial & corporate compliance, legal & regulatory, and corporate performance management. We operate in highly regulated environments where security, resiliency, and trust are foundational to everything we build.
About The Role
As an Associate Director, Enterprise Software Engineering within Wolters Kluwer’s Enterprise Systems organization, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for mission-critical enterprise platforms, including ERP systems and custom-developed .NET, Java and other applications.
This role is accountable for delivery excellence, financial stewardship, platform resilience, and long-term roadmap execution, operating within enterprise strategy and governance set at the Director and enterprise levels. You will manage portfolio budgets, oversee disaster recovery and audit readiness, and play a key role in deploying and supporting AI agents across enterprise systems.
You will also contribute significantly to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration, ensuring acquired systems and capabilities align with Wolters Kluwer standards for security, compliance, and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Roadmaps
- Define, own, and execute 3-year software engineering roadmaps for assigned enterprise platforms, aligned with Wolters Kluwer enterprise strategy and architecture standards.
- Translate business and functional priorities into executable technology initiatives across ERP and custom application platforms.
- Identify and drive opportunities for modernization, platform simplification, and technical debt reduction.
Delivery & Execution Management
- Provide leadership and accountability for large-scale, multi-team enterprise software delivery, ensuring predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, quality, and cost.
- Establish delivery governance, including dependency management, risk mitigation, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
- Drive consistent engineering practices across teams, including CI/CD, quality engineering, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design development.
Budget & Financial Management
- Own and manage portfolio-level budgets for enterprise software engineering initiatives, ensuring delivery within approved funding.
- Partner with finance, product, and business stakeholders to support forecasting, investment planning, and cost optimization.
- Ensure transparency into financial performance, risks, and trade-offs across the delivery portfolio.
Demand & Portfolio Management
- Lead enterprise demand intake, prioritization, and sequencing for assigned platforms, balancing run, grow, and transform work.
- Evaluate delivery feasibility and capacity constraints, recommending trade-offs to stakeholders.
- Forecast staffing, skills, and sourcing needs to support roadmap execution.
Platforms & Technical Scope
- Provide leadership across enterprise platforms, including:
- ERP systems (finance, procurement, HR, or adjacent domains)
- Custom-developed .NET and Java applications
- Integration and middleware capabilities supporting enterprise workflows
- Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, security, availability, and maintainability.
AI Enablement & Automation
- Lead the deployment and operational support of AI agents across enterprise systems to improve productivity, automation, and decision support.
- Partner with architecture, security, data, and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions are safe, governed, and compliant.
- Support integration of AI capabilities into existing ERP and custom application landscapes.
Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration
- Serve as a senior engineering leader for technology due diligence activities, assessing applications, integrations, platforms, and engineering maturity.
- Support post-acquisition integration execution, including platform interoperability, application rationalization, and modernization.
- Identify risks and synergies related to acquired enterprise systems.
Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Audit
- Ensure enterprise platforms meet defined disaster recovery and business continuity requirements, including recovery objectives and testing.
- Partner with infrastructure and security teams to support disaster recovery planning, execution, and validation.
- Maintain strong audit readiness, supporting internal and external audits through documented controls, evidence, and remediation actions.
Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership
- Collaborate closely with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and compliance teams.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders on delivery risks, options, and constraints.
Talent & Culture
- Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior professionals, fostering accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Drive leadership readiness, succession planning, and engineering excellence across distributed teams.
Qualifications & Skills
- Proven experience leading multiple enterprise software engineering teams in a complex, global environment
- Strong delivery record across ERP and custom-developed .NET and Java platforms
- Experience managing portfolio budgets and delivering within financial constraints
- Demonstrated success defining and executing multi-year technology roadmaps
- Experience supporting M&A technology due diligence and integration
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit requirements in regulated environments
- Experience deploying or supporting AI-driven solutions or agents in enterprise systems
- Strong communication, stakeholder-influencing, and people-leadership skills
Our Interview Practices
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.
Compensation:
$160,100.00 - $286,000.00 USD
This role is eligible for Bonus.
Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.
Additional Information:
Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: 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 upon request.
