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Distinguished Architect, Enterprise Architecture & AI Transformation
About the Role
Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, the Distinguished Architect will serve as the senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise architecture and technology strategy for Wolters Kluwer's Corporate Legal Services (CLS) division.
CLS provides critical legal and regulatory compliance solutions, including:
- Registered Agent services
- Service of Process
- Business Formation
- Entity Management
- Business Licensing
- UCC Services
- Related Corporate Compliance Solutions
Our customers range from small businesses and law firms to some of the world's largest corporations.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of technology for a market-leading business. Through years of growth and acquisition, CLS has developed a diverse technology landscape that includes legacy, overlapping, and disconnected platforms. While these systems have supported the business successfully, they now present a significant opportunity for transformation, simplification, and innovation.
Position Responsibilities
As the Distinguished Architect, you will define and execute a cohesive target-state enterprise architecture across CT Corporation and the broader CLS portfolio.
You will establish the architectural vision, principles, standards, and technology strategies that enable:
- Simplification and platform consolidation
- Enterprise scalability and resiliency
- Modern data and integration capabilities
- Improved security and governance
- Faster product innovation and delivery
- Greater technology reuse across the portfolio
Working closely with engineering, product, business, security, and data leaders, you will translate business strategy into a pragmatic, multi-year technology roadmap that balances modernization with operational stability.
Defining Architecture for the AI-Native Enterprise
This role goes beyond traditional modernization.
We are not simply looking for someone to replace legacy systems with newer technologies. We are seeking a visionary technology leader who will help redefine how software is designed, built, and operated in an AI-native world.
You will explore how emerging capabilities such as:
- AI agents
- Agentic workflows
- Intelligent automation
- Modern data platforms
- API-first architectures
- Cloud-native engineering
- AI-assisted software development
can fundamentally transform both our products and our technology operating model.
CLS is already investing in AI-enabled solutions, including intelligent customer insights and AI-assisted service-of-process workflows. This leader will play a central role in shaping how AI is leveraged across the organization.
Required Skills & Qualifications
The successful candidate will:
- Establish a clear enterprise architecture vision and roadmap
- Simplify a complex portfolio of systems and platforms
- Drive technology standardization and modernization efforts
- Enable scalable, reusable platform capabilities across the business
- Advance AI adoption within products and engineering practices
- Build alignment among executive, business, and technology stakeholders
- Help position CLS as an AI-enabled leader in legal and compliance services
You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and executive influence.
You are equally comfortable:
- Engaging with senior business leaders on strategic priorities
- Defining enterprise architecture and platform strategy
- Evaluating emerging technologies and AI capabilities
- Guiding modernization of large-scale technology ecosystems
- Influencing decisions across complex organizational environments
Most importantly, you are energized by the opportunity to define what the enterprise architecture of an AI-native business should look like and help bring that vision to life.
This is an opportunity to do far more than modernize legacy systems.
You will help define the future technology foundation of a market-leading business and shape how AI, automation, cloud platforms, and modern engineering practices drive the next generation of innovation across Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services.
If you're excited by the challenge of building the architecture for an AI-native enterprise, we'd love to talk with you.
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:
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.
Distinguished Architect, Enterprise Architecture & AI Transformation
About the Role
Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, the Distinguished Architect will serve as the senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise architecture and technology strategy for Wolters Kluwer's Corporate Legal Services (CLS) division.
CLS provides critical legal and regulatory compliance solutions, including:
- Registered Agent services
- Service of Process
- Business Formation
- Entity Management
- Business Licensing
- UCC Services
- Related Corporate Compliance Solutions
Our customers range from small businesses and law firms to some of the world's largest corporations.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of technology for a market-leading business. Through years of growth and acquisition, CLS has developed a diverse technology landscape that includes legacy, overlapping, and disconnected platforms. While these systems have supported the business successfully, they now present a significant opportunity for transformation, simplification, and innovation.
Position Responsibilities
As the Distinguished Architect, you will define and execute a cohesive target-state enterprise architecture across CT Corporation and the broader CLS portfolio.
You will establish the architectural vision, principles, standards, and technology strategies that enable:
- Simplification and platform consolidation
- Enterprise scalability and resiliency
- Modern data and integration capabilities
- Improved security and governance
- Faster product innovation and delivery
- Greater technology reuse across the portfolio
Working closely with engineering, product, business, security, and data leaders, you will translate business strategy into a pragmatic, multi-year technology roadmap that balances modernization with operational stability.
Defining Architecture for the AI-Native Enterprise
This role goes beyond traditional modernization.
We are not simply looking for someone to replace legacy systems with newer technologies. We are seeking a visionary technology leader who will help redefine how software is designed, built, and operated in an AI-native world.
You will explore how emerging capabilities such as:
- AI agents
- Agentic workflows
- Intelligent automation
- Modern data platforms
- API-first architectures
- Cloud-native engineering
- AI-assisted software development
can fundamentally transform both our products and our technology operating model.
CLS is already investing in AI-enabled solutions, including intelligent customer insights and AI-assisted service-of-process workflows. This leader will play a central role in shaping how AI is leveraged across the organization.
Required Skills & Qualifications
The successful candidate will:
- Establish a clear enterprise architecture vision and roadmap
- Simplify a complex portfolio of systems and platforms
- Drive technology standardization and modernization efforts
- Enable scalable, reusable platform capabilities across the business
- Advance AI adoption within products and engineering practices
- Build alignment among executive, business, and technology stakeholders
- Help position CLS as an AI-enabled leader in legal and compliance services
You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and executive influence.
You are equally comfortable:
- Engaging with senior business leaders on strategic priorities
- Defining enterprise architecture and platform strategy
- Evaluating emerging technologies and AI capabilities
- Guiding modernization of large-scale technology ecosystems
- Influencing decisions across complex organizational environments
Most importantly, you are energized by the opportunity to define what the enterprise architecture of an AI-native business should look like and help bring that vision to life.
This is an opportunity to do far more than modernize legacy systems.
You will help define the future technology foundation of a market-leading business and shape how AI, automation, cloud platforms, and modern engineering practices drive the next generation of innovation across Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services.
If you're excited by the challenge of building the architecture for an AI-native enterprise, we'd love to talk with you.
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:
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.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in distinguished architect jobs.
- 15 or more years of progressively complex software or systems architecture experience
- Demonstrated track of leading enterprise-scale architecture decisions across multiple business units
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud at an architectural level
- Experience defining and governing architecture standards, patterns, and review processes organization-wide
- Strong communication skills to influence executive stakeholders and align technical direction to business strategy
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline
Tips for Your Distinguished Architect Job Search
Align your resume to scope claims
Distinguished architect roles are evaluated on the breadth of technical decisions you've owned, not just the technologies you've used. Quantify the scale of systems you've designed and the number of teams your architecture decisions affected.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists distinguished architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your portfolio to the domain
Hiring panels for distinguished architects look for evidence of cross-domain influence. Build a concise architecture portfolio that shows how your decisions shaped product direction, not just technical outcomes, in the specific industry you're targeting.
Target companies with active architecture guilds
Organizations that have formal architecture review boards or internal guilds are more likely to have a defined distinguished architect career path. Search for companies that publish engineering blogs describing their architecture governance processes before you apply.
Prepare a system design narrative for interviews
At the distinguished level, interviewers rarely ask you to design a system from scratch. They want to hear how you navigated ambiguity and trade-offs on past work. Prepare two or three specific examples where your architectural choice resolved a conflict between competing business and technical priorities.
Negotiate scope before negotiating compensation
Distinguished architect offers often include ambiguous ownership boundaries. Before accepting, clarify in writing which product lines, teams, or platforms you'll have architectural authority over, since scope directly affects your ability to deliver the impact the role requires.
Distinguished Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most distinguished architects?
The most active employers for distinguished architects right now are Ampere Computing, Walmart, and HP, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Utah, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated at large technology companies, financial institutions, and cloud-native enterprises with complex multi-platform environments.
How many distinguished architect jobs are remote?
About 100% of distinguished architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how senior technical leadership roles have shifted since distributed work became standard. Cloud architecture and enterprise solutions roles are the most likely to offer remote flexibility, while roles tied to on-premises infrastructure or regulated industries tend to require more in-person presence.
How do you become a distinguished architect?
Becoming a distinguished architect requires building a record of architecture decisions that influenced outcomes beyond your immediate team. Start by owning end-to-end designs on critical systems, then expand your influence by leading architecture reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and publishing internal standards. Most practitioners reach this level after spending years at the principal or staff architect level, earning recognition for decisions that shaped the direction of an entire product or platform.
Can you get hired as a distinguished architect without prior distinguished-level experience?
You can get hired at the distinguished architect level without holding that exact title if your work demonstrates the same scope and influence. Hiring teams focus on the systems you've designed, the scale at which your decisions operated, and whether you've driven technical strategy across organizational boundaries. A strong portfolio showing cross-functional impact and thought leadership within your current company is often more persuasive than a matching title from a smaller organization.
What does the distinguished architect interview process look like?
The distinguished architect interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, a deep technical discussion focused on past architecture decisions, and a panel interview with engineering leadership and sometimes product or business executives. Many companies also include a presentation stage where you walk through a complex system you designed or a proposal for solving a strategic technical problem. The process emphasizes influence, communication, and trade-off reasoning as much as technical depth.
Where can I find and apply to distinguished architect jobs?
You can find and apply to distinguished architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your specialization and experience level, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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