Principal Solution Architect - Guidewire

IAG; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13% Superannuation

20 days annual leave

MyLeave (5 days)

myFlex (flexible work)

Insurance discounts

Private health discounts

Parental leave 20 weeks

Learning & development

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Principal Solution Architect - Guidewire to lead architecture across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter programs in Australia. You will shape scalable, secure solutions and drive cloud modernization, integration, and data capabilities across Retail Technology.

Based in Gadigal Country (Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) or Meanjin (Brisbane), the role offers strong leadership, governance, and opportunities to influence underwriting improvements and AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' hands-on Guidewire experience across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership across Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter initiatives.
• Lead architecture for complex integration, migration, and cloud transformation projects.
• Partner with delivery teams to translate business requirements into architectural roadmaps.

Skills

Guidewire PolicyCenter

Guidewire BillingCenter

Solution architecture

Cloud transformation

Integration design

Architectural governance

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

PCI DSS considerations

Guidewire certification

Job description

At IAG, we’re ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.

If you're a senior Guidewire architect with deep PolicyCenter and BillingCenter expertise and a passion for shaping complex technology solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

We're seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to provide architecture leadership across our core Guidewire platforms, helping shape the future of Retail Technology through large-scale transformation, cloud adoption, and business-led innovation.

As a Principal Solution Architect - Guidewire, you will lead solution architecture across strategic Guidewire initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of IAG's PolicyCenter and BillingCenter platforms, supporting major transformation, integration, migration, and cloud modernisation programs. This is a permanent full-time role based in Gadigal Country (Darling Park 2, Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) or Meanjin (Brisbane).

What You'll Do

• Provide architecture leadership across Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter programs, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and future-ready solution designs.


• Lead architecture design for complex integration, migration, cloud transformation, and platform modernisation initiatives.


• Partner with delivery teams to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions and architectural roadmaps.


• Support architecture governance, design reviews, decision-making forums, and risk management activities.


• Drive the adoption of reusable architecture patterns, standards, and best practices across the Retail Technology ecosystem.


• Influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to initiatives focused on underwriting improvements, and data capabilities.


• Influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to the evolution of IAG’s Guidewire platforms, insurance capabilities and broader Retail Technology ecosystem as well as AI-enabled solutions.

What You’ll Bring

Guidewire Expertise

• 10+ years' hands-on Guidewire experience across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter gained through engineering, technical leadership or implementation architecture roles.


• Deep knowledge of Guidewire configuration, product models, data models, integration patterns and platform architecture.


• Experience working within complex multi-brand or shared Guidewire environments, balancing governance, releases and competing priorities.


• Strong experience with BillingCenter payment integrations and PCI DSS considerations.


• Current Guidewire certification, with Guidewire Certified Ace accreditation highly regarded.

Solution Architecture & Integration

• Proven ability to design scalable, resilient Guidewire integrations using APIs, messaging, events and batch processing.


• Strong understanding of solution architecture, including architecture trade-offs, integration patterns, non-functional requirements and risk management.


• Experience integrating insurance platforms with cloud, digital and enterprise technology ecosystems.


• Ability to align solution designs with enterprise architecture, platform strategies and business objectives.


• Proven capability managing architectural risk, technical debt and solution quality.

Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Influence

• Ability to review code, configuration and technical designs, identify risks and provide guidance to engineering teams and delivery partners.


• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams.

What We Offer

• Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard.


• 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).


• Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.


• Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.


• Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more.


• Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave.


• Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.


• employment type eligibility criteria apply

Applications close: Sunday 8 November 2026 11:59PM AEDT

Adjustments and Support

If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

More About Us

As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose‑led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We're ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work-life and your ability to make a difference. We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. We collaborate on Indigenous‑led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.