Senior Solutions Architect

***This role starts as a 4 month contract to start with potential to extend or convert FTE after***

***This is a hybrid role in Worcester, MA 3 days/week**

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Responsibilities/Essential Functions: At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible

for:
• Strategic planning and road mapping activities, particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementat

ions.
• Driving technology and thought leadership across technical projects involving Guidewire applica

tions.
• 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 archit

ecture).
• 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 e

nterprise.
• Managing technical risk for all technical decisions and any platform de

pendencies.
• Leading the evaluation process of the architecture components of

the project.
• Planning and integrating new technologies into projects for effecti

ve execution.
• Communicating enterprise application platform vision and strategy for software architecture and application capabilities, software platforms, and sha

red solutions.
• Ensuring software portfolio conformance within the division (Get Current

/Stay Current).
• Mentoring Solution and Senior Solution Architects to furth

er their growth.
Key Mea

sures of Success:
• Delivering technical de

sign and approach.
• Providing position statements and

solution patterns.
• Measurable roadmaps w

ith clear milestones
Required Skills & Competencies a

nd Experience/Skills:
• At an expert level, uses core solutio

n architecture skills:
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilit

ation, and negotiation.
• Excellent planning, facilitation, an

d organizational skills.
• Excellent written and ver

bal communication skills.
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term p

erspectives of situations.
• Ability to translate business needs into solution

architecture requirements.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solutio

n architecture alternatives.
• Ability to define multiple solution

options to business problems.
• Knowledge of ke

y aspects of clients business.
• Expert knowledge of infor

mation principles and policies.
• Understanding of applic

ation 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.
Competencies:
• 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 busine

ss value proposition or reduce costs.
• Results-driven Attitude: Deliver appropriate solutions based on Enterprise Architecture principles and compli

ance rules within required timeframes.
• Enterprise Perspective: Understand the broader implications of strategy across all business units while visu

alizing the project-level implications.
• Foresight: Manage short-term, medium-term, and l

ong-term planning horizons concurrently.
• Consensus Building: Enable a group of people with diverse backgrounds to accept a majority or common c

onclusion without damaging relationships.
• Facilitation: Guide a debate without forcing a conclusion while ensuring all participants have a

n opportunity to voice ideas and opinions.
• Leadership: Influence a broad audience to adopt a particular path and be respected as a leader regar

dless 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

applicabil

ity of technology to the business.
Experience:
• 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 Archi

tect with increasing development responsibility.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse business sy

stems, technologies, and processing environme

nts.
• Solution design and development experience.
• Specific experience with G

uidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.
• Experience with GW PC cloud migration, data

integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance

tuning.
• Insurance Industry & Product Knowledge:
• Broad understa

nding of Property/Casualty systems & applications.
• Understanding of how changes/updates affect not only the specific domai

n but also other systems in the assigned business unit.