Bachelor's degree in computer science, system analysis, or related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years in the industry with 5+ years as Senior Solution Architect.
Experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center and cloud migration.
Responsibilities
Strategic planning and road mapping for Guidewire Policy Center implementations.
Lead technology and thought leadership across technical projects.
Ensure architecture documentation for Architecture Review Board.
Manage business, application, information, and technology architecture across projects.
Promote reuse of technologies and reference architecture practices.
Manage technical risk and platform dependencies for decisions.
Evaluate architecture components and lead integration of new technologies.
Mentor Solution and Senior Solution Architects to support growth.
Skills
Strategic planning
Road mapping
Technical leadership
Architecture governance
Mentoring
Risk management
Cross-team collaboration
Communication
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
Tools
Guidewire Policy Center
GW PC cloud migration
APIs
SSO
MFA
Job description
Responsibilities/Essential Functions: At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible for:
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.
Experience:
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.
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.
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.