Lead Product Software Engineer

Lead Product Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer

Job Description

Join us as a Lead Product Software Engineer, where you will independently execute specialized software development tasks. Your role will involve advanced coding, system design, and optimizing software solutions that enhance our products' performance and usability. Your expertise will ensure quality outcomes and drive technological innovations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine and define intricate design specifications and details.
• Lead the design and architecture of innovative software applications that address challenging business requirements.
• Supervise and mentor information technology personnel, providing guidance to enhance their skills and productivity.
• Document highly technical specifications or requirements, providing clear guidelines for the development team.
• Utilize advanced data analysis techniques to extract valuable insights from project data, influencing software specifications and requirements.
• Lead efforts to optimize software programs at a high level, achieving significant improvements in performance and efficiency.
• Develop comprehensive and sophisticated testing routines and procedures, ensuring thorough software testing.
• Prepare and analyze complex data sets, providing valuable insights to inform software development decisions.
• Offer advanced technical support for software maintenance, usage, and issue resolution, supporting other team members and stakeholders.
• Identify and assess information technology project resource requirements, including personnel and infrastructure.
• Implement advanced monitoring systems to ensure real-time performance evaluation and proper operation of computer systems.

Skills:

• Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, and maintain software systems and applications by applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis. This includes the capacity to understand user requirements, create and test the software, and resolve any software-related issues.
• Software Development: The ability to design, write, test, and implement software programs, applications, and systems. This includes understanding various programming languages, software architecture, and software testing methods. It also involves problem-solving capabilities to fix software issues and improve functionality.
• Programming: The ability to design, write, test, debug, and maintain the instructions, also known as code, that a computer must follow to execute a task. This skill often involves various programming languages.
• Problem Solving: The ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.
• Analysis: The ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.
• Testing: The skill of evaluating a system or process, often in software or product development. It involves the ability to identify problems, measure effectiveness, and ensure quality or functionality.
• Agile: The ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. In the context of project management, it denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes.
• Source Code Repository: The ability to effectively use a source code repository, a file archive and web hosting facility where a large amount of source code, for software or for web pages, is kept, either publicly or privately. This skill involves the ability to manage and track changes to code, identify and fix issues, merge code from different branches, and collaborate with other developers.
• Relational Database: The ability to design, implement, and manipulate a relational database, a type of database that stores and organizes data in a structured way and where data is logically inter-related. This skill often requires proficiency in SQL, database management systems, and understanding of database design principles.
• APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. This skill includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Additionally, having this ability means understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.
• Design: The ability to create, conceptualize, sketch, and implement layouts, structures, and plans either for aesthetic or functional purposes. This could be used in various contexts such as architecture, fashion, graphics, interior and more. It involves creativity, problem-solving and strategic thinking.
• Framework: The ability to understand, utilize, design and develop complex structures and systems in various contexts such as programming, project management or business strategy. This ability requires critical thinking, problem-solving skills and attention to details.
• Automation: The ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. This skill includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.
• Documentation: The ability to create, manage, organize, and maintain important information and documents in various physical and digital formats. This skill may include preparing reports, managing files, storing data, and keeping records organized and updated for easy retrieval and understanding.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Be the Difference

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. 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.

About Wolters Kluwer

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.

Building Diverse Teams

As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work.

We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion.

This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics.

Our Global Well-being Program

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.