Solution Architect - Guidewire

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture support for value streams, working with Lead Solution Architects to own solutions from ideation through to delivery and ensure business value is realised through successful implementation.
• Define end-to-end solution architectures spanning Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Integration Platforms, Enterprise Services and supporting technology ecosystems.
• Provide architectural leadership for Guidewire Policy Center, Billing Center and digital customer-facing solutions.
• Define solution approaches for Guidewire product configuration, integration design, platform extensions, customer journeys and digital capabilities.
• Lead architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, assess impacts, evaluate solution options and drive architectural decisions.
• Lead and contribute to governance forums, ensuring solutions adhere to established architecture principles, standards and patterns, and identifying and managing divergence where required.
• Define integration strategies between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications using APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures and enterprise integration patterns.
• Support strategic initiatives, platform modernisation programmes and technology transformation activities across the insurance landscape.
• Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, Option Papers, conceptual and logical architecture designs, integration designs, technical risk assessments and roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, principles and non-functional requirements are documented and communicated effectively across stakeholders.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure architectural intent is maintained throughout delivery and implementation.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, technology constraints and cross-programme dependencies.
• Build productive relationships with business and technical stakeholders to maintain alignment between business objectives and technology strategy.
• Contribute to and maintain a detailed understanding of the architecture landscape across supported value streams.
• Contribute to the architecture repository using Admiral architecture modelling tools, standards and language.
• Promote architecture best practice within Admiral and support the continuous evolution of enterprise architecture standards and patterns.
• Support innovation through research and evaluation of emerging technologies and industry trends, producing recommendations on opportunities, threats and strategic technology direction.
• Keep the Head of Solution Architecture and CTO leadership informed of significant architecture risks, issues, dependencies and strategic considerations.

• Strong experience architecting solutions using Guidewire Policy Center and Billing Center.
• Proven experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions within Guidewire ecosystems, balancing business requirements, platform capabilities and architecture standards.
• Experience supporting Guidewire upgrades, migrations and platform modernisation programmes.
• Strong understanding of Guidewire platform architecture and associated design principles.
• Experience with Guidewire configuration concepts, including Product Configuration, Product Designer, Business Rules, Workflows, Data Model Extensions, Screen Configuration, User Experience Design, Rating and Underwriting concepts.
• Experience defining architecture and design approaches for Guidewire customisation, extension and configuration while promoting adoption of out-of-the-box platform capabilities.
• Experience designing and reviewing integrations between Guidewire platforms and enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of Guidewire integration capabilities, including REST APIs, web services, messaging frameworks, batch interfaces and event-driven integrations.
• Experience designing solutions involving Guidewire platforms, Digital Channels, Customer Portals and Enterprise Services.
• Strong understanding of API architecture, integration patterns, messaging architectures and service-oriented design principles.
• Experience with one or more enterprise integration technologies such as TIBCO, Mule Soft, Azure or GCP Integration Services, or Kafka-based platforms.
• Experience designing enterprise solutions that satisfy security, resilience, scalability, performance, supportability and operational requirements.
• Understanding of cloud architecture principles and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams, Dev Ops principles and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Experience producing architecture artefacts, including Solution Outlines, High Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records, integration designs and option assessments.
• Experience facilitating architecture workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions and solution design…