Senior Architect

Sr Architect.

Location: Worcester, MA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 2–3 days onsite per week

Contract Details

• Position Type: Right to Hire (Temp to Perm)
• Contract Duration: 4 months
• Pay Rate: $95.00–$95.01 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days (1st Shift)
• Conversion Salary: $150,000–$155,000 / Year upon successful conversion
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible for strategic planning, road mapping, and driving technology and thought leadership across technical projects, with particular focus on Guidewire Policy Center implementations. The role encompasses managing all tenants of project architecture — business, application, information, and technology — while promoting reuse of technologies and processes across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Core Solution Architecture Skills:

• 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.

Technical & Industry Experience:

• 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.
• 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.

Education Requirements

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

Required Experience

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

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

Important Notes

• This is a temp-to-perm position. The target conversion salary range is $150,000–$155,000 annually, contingent upon the selected candidate meeting all responsibilities and skillsets required for conversion.
• This role requires 3 rounds of interviews.
• Open to reviewing remote candidates who are available and interested in relocating to Worcester, MA upon successful conversion.

About the Client

This client is a U.S. property and casualty insurance provider delivering comprehensive coverage for homes, autos, and businesses across the country. The organization employs architects, software engineers, solution analysts, and technology leaders who drive enterprise-scale platform modernization and insurance systems transformation, including cloud migration and policy administration initiatives.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.