Guidewire Functional Architect

Guidewire Functional Architect

The Functional Architect will play a pivotal role in driving functional solution definition, business process alignment, and delivery support within the Property & Casualty Insurance domain, with focus on Guidewire core applications across Policy Center, Claim Center, Billing Center, and related Guidewire Insurance Suite capabilities. The role requires strong functional expertise in Guidewire business processes, product model concepts, underwriting, policy administration, billing, claims, servicing workflows, rules, data flows, and integration touchpoints, along with a deep understanding of P&C insurance operations.

The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, configuration teams, QA teams, and delivery leadership to translate business needs into clear requirements, functional designs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation-ready solutions. This hybrid role requires a strategic thinker with 10+ years of overall IT experience and significant Guidewire implementation, enhancement, upgrade, cloud, or production support experience in a functional or business-facing capacity.

• Lead functional analysis, requirements elicitation, and solution definition activities across Guidewire Policy Center, Claim Center, Billing Center, and related Insurance Suite components.
• Own functional work streams covering business requirements, user stories, process flows, functional specifications, product model impacts, rating or billing behavior, claims handling, workflows, business rules, and integration touchpoints.
• Provide senior-level functional expertise in Guidewire Center applications to ensure solutions align with business objectives, P&C insurance processes, Guidewire capabilities, and implementation best practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, configuration teams, integration teams, QA teams, and client stakeholders to clarify requirements, validate solution approaches, and support delivery execution.
• Prepare and maintain business requirement documents, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices, data mapping inputs, and implementation support notes.
• Ensure functional deliverables are clear, complete, testable, and aligned with client priorities, regulatory needs, operational processes, quality expectations, and enterprise delivery standards.
• Conduct requirement reviews, functional design walkthroughs, backlog refinement sessions, and solution validation discussions to improve clarity, reduce rework, and support delivery readiness.
• Mentor business analysts and functional consultants, provide guidance on Guidewire functional concepts, support estimation, and promote consistent documentation and requirement practices.
• Analyze and support resolution of functional issues, production defects, requirement gaps, process exceptions, data inconsistencies, and business rule conflicts across Guidewire applications.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog prioritization, story grooming, release planning, test planning, user acceptance testing, and implementation readiness activities in Agile or SAFe delivery models.
• Support Guidewire cloud, upgrade, migration, and modernization initiatives by assessing functional impacts, business process changes, testing needs, user adoption considerations, and rollout readiness.
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams to ensure timely clarification of requirements, dependency tracking, functional issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and alignment with client expectations.
• Monitor functional delivery progress, identify business risks and requirement dependencies, propose mitigation actions, and provide status updates to project leadership.

• Possess strong functional experience in one or more Guidewire core centers:
  Policy Center, Claim Center, or Billing Center, with exposure to Guidewire Insurance Suite implementation, enhancement, upgrade, cloud, or support programs.
• Demonstrate practical experience in business analysis and functional solutioning, including requirements…