Guidewire Architect

Job Title: Guidewire Architect (PolicyCenter)

Location: Boston / New England (Hybrid)

USC/GC

Open rate

Type: Long-term Contract

candidate should have experience in Insurance domain is a must

Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible for:

• Strategic planning and road mapping activities, particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementations.

• Driving technology and thought leadership across technical projects involving Guidewire applications.

• Ensuring project documentation for the Architecture Review Board, including Technical Approach and Technical Design.

• Managing the tenants of the project's architecture (business, application, information, and technology architecture).

• Promoting reuse of technologies and processes across technical projects.

• Developing reference architecture, compliance rules, and principles for use across the portfolio and sharing them across the enterprise.

• Managing technical risk for all technical decisions and any platform dependencies.

• Leading the evaluation process of the architecture components of the project.

• Planning and integrating new technologies into projects for effective execution.

• Communicating enterprise application platform vision and strategy for software architecture and application capabilities, software platforms, and shared solutions.

• Ensuring software portfolio conformance within the division (Get Current/Stay Current).

• Mentoring Solution and Senior Solution Architects to further their growth.

• Key Measures of Success:

• Delivering technical design and approach.

• Providing position statements and solution patterns.

• Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones

• Required Skills & Competencies and Experience:

• At an expert level, uses core solution architecture skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

• Excellent planning, facilitation, and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.

• Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.

• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives.

• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems.

• Knowledge of key aspects of client's business.

• Expert knowledge of information principles and policies.

• Understanding of application development methodologies.

• Understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems.

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

• Competencies:

• Conceptualization: Visualize the solution, process, or infrastructure required to satisfy the business requirement.

• Innovation: Improve organizational performance through the exploration and introduction of new opportunities that add to the business value proposition or reduce costs.

• Results-driven Attitude: Deliver appropriate solutions based on Enterprise Architecture principles and compliance rules within required timeframes.

• Enterprise Perspective: Understand the broader implications of strategy across all business units while visualizing the project-level implications.

• Foresight: Manage short-term, medium-term, and long-term planning horizons concurrently.

• Consensus Building: Enable a group of people with diverse backgrounds to accept a majority or common conclusion without damaging relationships.

• Facilitation: Guide a debate without forcing a conclusion while ensuring all participants have an opportunity to voice ideas and opinions.

• Leadership: Influence a broad audience to adopt a particular path and be respected as a leader regardless of position/role in the organization.

• Logic: Select the best solution from a range of options to resolve an issue or seize an opportunity.

• Communication: Effectively convey the results of the architecture, the process to develop it, and the value it provides by demonstrating the applicability of technology to the business.

• Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum of 10 years in the industry with at least 5 years as a Senior Solution Architect with increasing development responsibility.

• Exposure to multiple, diverse business systems, technologies, and processing environments.

• Solution design and development experience.

• Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.

• Experience with GW PC cloud migration, data integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance tuning.

• Insurance Industry & Product Knowledge:

• Broad understanding of Property/Casualty systems & applications.

• Understanding of how changes/updates affect not only the specific domain but also other systems in the assigned business unit.