Guidewire Architect - PolicyCenter

Guidewire Architect - PolicyCenter

Job Overview

Location: Worcester, Massachusetts

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Pay Rate: $56

Experience: 10+ years

About the Role

• The Senior Architect provides leadership and facilitation for project or program solution design, specifically focusing on the Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.
• This role involves guiding projects on their overall high-level solution approach, engaging with the broader project team, and representing the solution design at formal architecture review and approvals meetings.
• The Senior Architect is the owner of the project solution architecture process and solution architecture artifacts.

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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.
• Experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter Cloud migrations, ISO Rating, Standard Base Template (SBT), data integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across PolicyCenter transactions, integrations, batch processing, and database interactions.
• Deep experience designing enterprise integration architectures, including REST APIs, event-driven integrations, integration resiliency patterns, monitoring, versioning strategies, and operational supportability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to multiple, diverse business systems, technologies, and processing environments.
• Solution design and development experience.
• 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.

Required Skills & Technologies

Primary Skills

• Guidewire PolicyCenter
• Guidewire Insurance Suite
• Cloud migrations
• ISO Rating
• Standard Base Template (SBT)
• Data integration
• APIs
• MFA
• SSO
• Performance tuning
• REST APIs
• Event-driven integrations
• Integration resiliency patterns
• Monitoring
• Versioning strategies
• Operational supportability
• SOA
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Client/server systems

How to Apply

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4. Confirmation: Once submitted, reply to this email to let me know. I'll review your updated materials and, if there's a match, schedule a video interview to discuss further.

We appreciate your time and interest in this opportunity. Our team will review your application carefully and respond promptly.