Senior Solutions Engineer, Software; Guidewire

Role Overview

This position plays a pivotal role in driving the development and deployment of the end-to-end Unified Insurance Platform (UIP) leveraging Guidewire Policy Center. It is a highly impactful and visible opportunity to inspire teams and shape the future of insurance technology within the organization.

The role is responsible for providing technical direction and engineering solutions for the most complex and strategic system and application development initiatives. This involves implementing technological advancements that align with business objectives and long-term strategies, developing thorough and integrated system, technical, and product recommendations.

The incumbent oversees design reviews and frameworks for multiple product teams and substantial portfolios. By collaborating closely with Solution Architects and Tech Enablement, this role drives the consistent adoption of architecture standards, fostering operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization throughout the organization.

Recognized across the discipline as a thought leader, this position influences senior leadership decisions and advances engineering practices within the company. The individual will lead the formulation and execution of a technical roadmap designed to accelerate delivery velocity and unlock new engineering capabilities across Policy Center and related products.

• Develop clear, comprehensive, and integrated system, technical, and product recommendations to ensure consistency, security, maintainability, and flexibility within the UIP business domain and portfolio.
• Articulate and champion a bold technical vision and roadmap for UIP, balancing rapid experimentation with scalable, long-term architecture development.
• Consult and collaborate with technology leaders, product managers, business operations, and peer groups on both long- and short-term product features, providing portfolio-level oversight and influencing the engineering backlog for programs and teams.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; provide technical guidance to engineering teams, resolving complex technical challenges across Policy, Quoting, and Underwriting domains.
• Define and lead the adoption of engineering excellence guardrails, standards, and patterns across multiple product teams and large portfolios.
• Contribute to forecasting business and IT trends to set technical direction, serving as a trusted advisor for UIP platform strategy and capabilities.
• Promote the adoption of the well-architected framework to embed Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization into cultural norms; act as an expert on non-functional system characteristics.
• Develop and execute technical software development strategies across various domains, evolving the tech stack to leverage modern backend and frontend frameworks, storage, eventing, and messaging solutions; accountable for solution quality, usability, and performance.
• Recommend improvements for process efficiency and effectiveness; consistently share best practices and drive process enhancements within and across teams.
• Partner with Architecture, Tech Enablement, and the Guidewire platform team to implement monitoring, alerting, and automation for platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency, contributing to a highly available and performant platform.
• Participate in incident management events, provide consultative recommendations for resolutions, lead post-incident reviews, and drive remediation and resilience improvements.
• Maintain collaborative and strategic partnerships among customers, vendors, business partners, and technology teams; work closely with vendor teams supporting Guidewire Policy Center to ensure adherence to engineering, coding, and platform standards; solve complex engineering challenges across implementation domains.
• Break down complex problems into practical, operational solutions; manage multiple projects simultaneously while maximizing impact.
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