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Its portfolio spans industries such as Health, Tax & Accounting, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), and Legal & Regulatory. Innovation, digital transformation, and responsible business practices are core to Wolters Kluwer’s long-term strategy.\nTwinfield, part of Wolters Kluwer, is a cloud-based accounting software solution designed for businesses and accounting professionals. It streamlines financial administration by automating bookkeeping, invoicing, cash flow management, and reporting in real time. Twinfield is known for its strong compliance capabilities, security, and integration options, making it well suited for SMEs, international organizations, and accounting firms. You will be part of the ‘Tech B.V.’ team, which focuses on development, service and delivery of technology solutions that support Twinfield’s digital products and services.\nWhy this role exists\nWe’re building AI-powered capabilities directly into customer-delivered software - not demos, not labs. This role owns the architecture that turns our data estate into an AI-ready product platform and makes AI features reliable, governable, secure, and scalable in production. You’ll lead the modernization of our product data estate (schemas, pipelines, contracts, governance, and access patterns) so we can ship AI/ML and GenAI capabilities quickly and safely.\nWhat you’ll own (outcomes)\nA clear AI + Data reference architecture that product teams can execute without heroics: from ingestion → curation → feature/embedding layers → serving → monitoring. \nA modernized data estate that supports rapid iteration: schema evolution, lineage, quality gates, and scalable access patterns (batch + real-time/event-driven where needed). \nAI capabilities that are production-grade: measurable quality, observable, performant, fully automated deployments, governance, and cost-optimized. \nWhat you’ll do (Responsibilities)\n1) Architect AI-enabled product capabilities (customer-facing)\nTranslate business goals and product requirements into end-to-end architecture for AI features (e.g. predictive ML, recommendations, GenAI, agentic workflows).\nDefine integration patterns between product services, data systems, and AI components (APIs, including MCP/A2A, ARG, events, model/agent serving, evaluation harnesses). \nEvaluate NFR tradeoffs and ensure delivery adherence (e.g. latency, cost, security, resiliency, and maintainability). \n2) Modernize the data estate to be AI-ready\nLead modernization of legacy data estates into a governed, scalable architecture (lakehouse/data mesh patterns, curated layers, data products, and contracts). \nDrive improvements in data quality, lineage, metadata, and discoverability - treat data pipelines as software (versioning, testing, CI/CD).\nEstablish canonical models/semantic patterns that support analytics and AI/ML workloads (features/embeddings, training/serving parity).\n3) Operationalize AI (MLOps/LLMOps) the “paved road” way\nDefine standards and reusable patterns for: feature stores, model registries, experiment tracking, promotion workflows, drift monitoring, and retraining.\nBuild reference implementations and enable teams to ship features repeatedly - moving from PoC to governed production delivery.\nOwn architectural testing/validation practices for AI components: quality, robustness, security, and performance.\n4) Make it safe: governance, privacy, security, compliance\nEmbed responsible AI and governance controls into the lifecycle: auditability, transparency, bias/risk considerations, and secure-by-design patterns.\nPartner with Security/Privacy/Legal to ensure our AI and data systems meet obligations without killing delivery velocity. \n5) Lead through influence (engineering leadership)\nAct as a technical leader and mentor: clarify direction, unblock teams, and raise the architecture/engineering bar through reviews, guidance, and coaching. \nCommunicate complex tradeoffs clearly - influence product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders with pragmatic options and crisp decisions. \nWhat you’ll bring (Minimum qualifications)\n 8-12+ years building and evolving complex software products (SaaS/distributed systems required), including architectural leadership.\nProven experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI into customer-facing software (not just internal analytics) - shipping to production with monitoring and operations. \nHands-on experience modernizing data estates: data modeling, integration, pipelines, lineage, and scalable storage/compute patterns. \nExperience designing secure AI systems (threat modeling for prompt injection/data leakage, model supply chain controls, etc.).\nStrong understanding of modern data architecture concepts: curated layers, governance, data products/contracts, and event-driven/streaming where needed. \nPractical DataOps/MLOps understanding: environments, CI/CD, promotion gates, drift detection, rollback/incident patterns, and operational monitoring. \nAbility to write and maintain high-quality architecture artifacts: blueprints, specs, ADRs, and reference implementations that teams actually use.\nNice-to-have (Strong differentiators)\nExperience with lakehouse/data mesh transformations at scale and implementing strong governance/catalog patterns. \nOur offer\n36-40 hour working week with flexible working hours\nHybrid working model (up to 2 office days per week)\nCompetitive salary aligned with senior-level responsibility\n25 vacation days (based on 40 hours)\n50% pension contribution reimbursed by Wolters Kluwer\nInformal, collaborative working environment with regular events\nDaily lunch buffet (provided by company), fresh fruit, and great coffee\nApply\nIf you are excited about owning meaningful product outcomes in a regulated, high-impact domain-and want to help shape the future of accounting software-we would love to hear from you.\nApply via the button below.\nContact\nMarijke van Liempt - Senior Corporate Recruiter\nEmail: \nOur Interview Practices\nTo 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. 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