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The Guidewire Policy Center v10 Architect will be instrumental in designing and implementing solutions using the latest features of Guidewire Policy Center. This role demands a comprehensive understanding of version 10 features, modules, and integration patterns. The architect will lead the technical design efforts, ensuring alignment with our business objectives and IT strategy while driving forward the capabilities of our Guidewire platform.

• Translates business needs to technical solutions within Policy Center v10
• Leads product modeling reviews and technical configurations for new products
• Stays current on Policy Center v10 features and assesses their impact
• Ensures adherence to best practices across the Guidewire ecosystem
• Configures and extends products, screens, flows, and rules using Guidewire Studio
• Leverages accelerators and proven architectural patterns
• Manages application configuration, releases, and upgrades
• Maintains production and non-production environments
• Provides technical leadership, project allocations, and oversight
• Manages the overall technical solution design and delivery
• Tracks progress and provides visibility through development tools
• Works with Project Management and Analysis teams for scoping and planning
• Provides guidance to the QA team for test case development
• Collaborates with Guidewire, vendors, and other teams for a cohesive platform
• Manages and governs engineering standards for security, logging, deployment, etc
• Ensures GUnit test cases and CI/CD pipelines with high code coverage
• Automates deployments to reduce manual tasks
• Maintains technical documentation including architecture and deployment diagrams
• Manages production applications and troubleshoots availability and performance issues

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field strongly preferred
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience with Guidewire Policy Center development as a Technical Lead with a minimum of three end-to-end commercial policy product implementations
• Strong and demonstrable leadership and application ownership (post-implementation) with Guidewire Policy Center product implementations is required
• 8+ years of experience leading and managing onshore/offshore development teams for one or multiple Guidewire product implementations
• 8+ years of experience in Guidewire Software Suite of applications
• Java development experience Certification in Guidewire Policy Center with demonstrated hands-on experience is preferred
• Demonstrated expertise and experience with Guidewire APIs, Product Designer, GX Model, Integrations, and Product Model development
• Demonstrable knowledge of and experience with the Guidewire Rating engine, Rating workbooks, and Rating logic configurations
• Experience with Guidewire Renewal API with an overall knowledge of data migration approach is highly preferred
• Experience and hands-on implementation with Guidewire Policy Center integrations and integration patterns are highly preferred
• Experience is required with ALM best practices in managing code versioning (and associated environments), integration, releasing, and maintaining Guidewire Policy Center products (during development and in production as application owner)
• Experience with installing, partitioning, and managing Guidewire suite applications for high performance, scalability, and reuse
• Knowledge of secure software development practices and expert understanding of architectural standards, patterns, and best practices with respect to Guidewire configuration and integration is required
• Knowledge of Commercial P&C insurance highly preferred
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate through and lead teams to solutions
• Experienced with Agile SCRUM methodology and tooling (TFS, Rally, JIRA, etc.) in a technical owner/development track lead capacity
• Experience managing work within a DevOps environment, including Builds, CI/CD Pipelines, Version Control, etc

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program