Guidewire PolicyCenter Architect — Cloud Modernization Lead

Mapfre; Webster (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MAPFRE seeks a Senior Technical Engineering Leader to steer Guidewire PolicyCenter engineering, policy lifecycle workflows, and platform modernization in Webster, MA. You will drive architecture, design, and integration efforts across policy configuration, quoting, underwriting, issuance, endorsements, renewals, and servicing, collaborating with product and business stakeholders.

The role requires extensive Guidewire expertise, Java and Gosu proficiency, and a track record of leading large

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise applications.
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience leading engineering teams or large-scale technology initiatives.
• Strong experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter development, configuration, and integrations.
• Strong experience developing solutions using Java, Gosu, and object-oriented design principles.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success leading complex technical projects from concept through production deployment.
• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies and engineering best practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Guidewire PolicyCenter and Policy Lifecycle initiatives.
• Lead architecture and technical design discussions for new capabilities, enhancements, integrations, cloud modernization efforts, and product implementations.
• Establish engineering standards, development best practices, upgrade-safe design patterns, and architectural direction.
• Drive technical decision-making while balancing business priorities, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Product, Architecture, and Business stakeholders.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-scale solutions within Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Product configuration and product model enhancements
• Quoting and rating integrations
• Underwriting workflows and rule management
• Policy issuance and policy servicing
• Endorsements and policy changes
• Renewals, rewrites, reinstatements, and cancellations
• Customer and agent servicing capabilities
• Regulatory and state-specific product implementations
• Architect and implement integrations between PolicyCenter and internal/external platforms.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, reliability, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Lead initiatives focused on Guidewire Cloud adoption, automation, API enablement, and platform modernization.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify architecture.
• Evaluate and leverage emerging technologies, including AI, automation, cloud-native services, and engineering productivity tools.
• Improve application scalability, observability, resilience, and release readiness.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to software engineers and senior engineers.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design reviews.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach teams on Guidewire best practices, Agile delivery, DevOps, cloud engineering, and quality engineering.
• Develop technical capabilities and Guidewire expertise across the team.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, Architects, QA, Business Analysts, Underwriting, Operations, Customer Service, and Business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support Agile planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and release activities.
• Collaborate with BillingCenter, ClaimsCenter, Agent Portal, Digital, Data, and Integration teams.
• Communicate technical strategies, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure platform availability, reliability, performance, and supportability.
• Utilize observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Lead root cause analysis and remediation efforts for critical production incidents.
• Support Guidewire Cloud releases, upgrades, and stabilization activities.
• Maintain architecture documentation, technical standards, and system diagrams.

Skills

Guidewire PolicyCenter

Java

Gosu

Object‑oriented design

Enterprise integrations

Agile methodologies

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

AWS cloud technologies

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

MAPFRE seeks a Senior Technical Engineering Leader to steer Guidewire PolicyCenter engineering, policy lifecycle workflows, and platform modernization in Webster, MA. You will drive architecture, design, and integration efforts across policy configuration, quoting, underwriting, issuance, endorsements, renewals, and servicing, collaborating with product and business stakeholders.

The role requires extensive Guidewire expertise, Java and Gosu proficiency, and a track record of leading large