Guidewire Technical Lead – Senior Manager

PwC UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Guidewire Technical Lead to play a pivotal role in implementing and optimizing Guidewire solutions. You will engage with stakeholders, lead technical design, and resolve issues while overseeing configurations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with Guidewire modules, excellent communication skills, and a strong understanding of the insurance industry. This role requires technical leadership and collaboration to deliver high-quality applications.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Guidewire implementations (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and/or BillingCenter).
• Strong understanding of insurance industry processes and terminology.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Background in business process reengineering or change management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure alignment.
• Lead the Technical design of Guidewire solutions.
• Support Business Analysis teams on requirements gathering.
• Oversee configuration of Guidewire modules.
• Act as primary point of escalation for Technical issues.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation.

Skills

Guidewire implementations

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Problem-solving

Detail-oriented

Business process reengineering

Job description

About the Role

The Guidewire Technical Lead plays a pivotal role in driving the successful implementation, configuration, and optimisation of Guidewire solutions within an organisation. The Technical Lead brings deep expertise in Guidewire modules (such as PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, or BillingCenter), facilitates requirements gathering, and leads Technical design and delivery. As a Technical Lead, the role is there to ensure the solution capabilities in our Guidewire programmes are the right capabilities to meet customer outcomes, articulated in the right way to align to Guidewire solution standards and best practise. This role needs to look forward, working with customer on coming Guidewire ski releases and ensuring our projects are aware and informed of what to plan in and working with customers to ensure they are aware of the value in each release as it maps to this business needs. This role involves Technical and technical leadership, mentoring of others, and collaborating with stakeholders/customers to deliver scalable, high‑quality insurance applications.

What Will Your Day Look Like

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business users, project managers, and technical teams to understand requirements, translate business needs into Technical specifications, and ensure alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Solution Design: Lead the Technical design of Guidewire solutions, ensuring that configurations and customisations meet business objectives and comply with industry best practices. This will be across several workstreams ensuring end to end designs are robust and well rounded.
• Supporting the Business Analysis teams on requirements Gathering, especially where the capabilities needed need customisation as opposed to configuration. Facilitate workshops and interviews to gather, analyse, and document business and Technical requirements related to Guidewire implementations.
• Configuration Oversight: Oversee the configuration of Guidewire modules, working closely with technical teams to ensure Technical requirements are accurately implemented.
• Issue Resolution: Act as the primary point of escalation for Technical issues, troubleshooting problems, and working with cross-Technical teams to resolve them efficiently.
• Documentation: Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation, including Technical specifications, process flows, and user guides.

This Job Is For You If

• Extensive experience in Guidewire implementations (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and/or BillingCenter).
• Strong understanding of insurance industry processes and terminology and proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and experience with Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and attention to detail and ability to lead and motivate a team of Technical analysts.
• Background in business process reengineering or change management and demonstrated adaptability in fast‑paced project environments and proactive approach to identifying and resolving potential challenges.

What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.