Lead Product Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 29-10-2026 - Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions in Italia
We are looking for a Lead Product Software Engineer to drive the design, development and evolution of data-centric applications and platform services within Wolters Kluwer Italia. The role combines strong software engineering leadership with a deep understanding of data-intensive products, enabling analytics, benchmarking, reporting and reusable data services across multiple business domains. The person will actively contribute to implementation while setting technical direction, engineering standards and delivery practices. A key expectation is the adoption of modern AI-assisted software development practices, including specification-driven approaches such as OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies, to improve quality, productivity, maintainability and clarity of delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development and technical evolution of data-centric applications and platform services.
- Define and maintain engineering standards, integration patterns, APIs and reusable technical capabilities.
- Design and implement ingestion, processing, storage, serving, monitoring and integration components supporting analytics and reporting use cases.
- Translate business and product needs into scalable, maintainable and secure technical solutions.
- Contribute to the definition of data models, semantic layers and shared services supporting benchmarks, dashboards and data products.
- Leverage AI-assisted development practices to improve software quality, productivity, maintainability and engineering flow.
- Contribute to adoption of specification-driven engineering, including OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies, as part of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, where they create measurable business value.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, security, observability and cost efficiency of implemented solutions.
- Mentor developers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and innovation.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in software engineering, product development or platform engineering.
- Solid backend development experience, ideally in .NET-based environments.
- Experience designing and developing data-intensive applications, APIs, integrations or platform services.
- Good understanding of data ingestion, transformation, storage, serving and analytical consumption patterns.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools as part of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Familiarity with specification-driven engineering approaches such as OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies.
- Genuine interest in AI, software engineering innovation and cutting-edge technology.
- Ability to continuously evolve engineering practices through experimentation, automation and adoption of new tools and paradigms.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with Product, Engineering, Analytics and Business stakeholders.
Additional Valuable Experience
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Power BI or equivalent Data & Analytics technologies.
- Knowledge of DataOps, observability, data governance, monitoring and cost optimization practices.
- Experience with large-scale data processing, benchmarking services or enterprise data products.
- Experience working in Agile, product-oriented and cross-functional environments.
What We Offer
We operate in a rapidly growing multinational environment and provide our teams with: People First: care and attention to the work environment, to people, and to their individual and professional growth within the Technology organization. Continuous Learning: Access to top-tier technological training platforms Access to high-quality learning paths through the internal #GROW program Knowledge-sharing communities Customized development paths International and Cross-functional Projects: opportunities to participate in international and cross-functional projects, ensuring the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Working Methodology: an operational approach based on a collaborative, informal work environment that is open to the exchange of ideas.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model Flexible start and end times to support work-life balance
- Meal vouchers worth €8
- Online well-being programs
- Welfare platform available to all employees
- Location: Milan and lavoro da remoto #Li-Hybrid
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