| 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.
- Key Measures of Success:
- Delivering technical design and approach.
- Providing position statements and solution patterns.
- Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones
Required Skills & Competencies and Experience: - At an expert level, uses core solution architecture skills:
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Excellent planning, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
- Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.
- Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives.
- Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems.
- Knowledge of key aspects of client s business.
- Expert knowledge of information principles and policies.
- Understanding of application development methodologies.
- Understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Competencies: - Conceptualization: Visualize the solution, process, or infrastructure required to satisfy the business requirement.
- Innovation: Improve organizational performance through the exploration and introduction of new opportunities that add to the business value proposition or reduce costs.
- Results-driven Attitude: Deliver appropriate solutions based on Enterprise Architecture principles and compliance rules within required timeframes.
- Enterprise Perspective: Understand the broader implications of strategy across all business units while visualizing the project-level implications.
- Foresight: Manage short-term, medium-term, and long-term planning horizons concurrently.
- Consensus Building: Enable a group of people with diverse backgrounds to accept a majority or common conclusion without damaging relationships.
- Facilitation: Guide a debate without forcing a conclusion while ensuring all participants have an opportunity to voice ideas and opinions.
- Leadership: Influence a broad audience to adopt a particular path and be respected as a leader regardless of position/role in the organization.
- Logic: Select the best solution from a range of options to resolve an issue or seize an opportunity.
- Communication: Effectively convey the results of the architecture, the process to develop it, and the value it provides by demonstrating the applicability of technology to the business.
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.
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