Senior Guidewire Architect

Overview

Title: Sr Guidewire Architect - (Contract to Hire)

Location – Hybrid, Worcester MA

Job Description

Our client located in Worcester, MA has an immediate need for a Sr Guidewire Architect to join their team. At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible for the strategic planning and road mapping activities, particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementations as well as 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.
• 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 time frames.
• 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.

• Delivering technical design and approach.
• Providing position statements and solution patterns.
• Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones.

• 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.
• 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…