Senior Business Architect, Professional Services

Summary

We are looking for a Senior Business Architect to join our Guidewire Professional Services team, which combines expertise in insurance with software implementation skills to lead strategic transformative projects for our customers.

Guidewire Business Architects assume a lead role in educating the customer team about the capabilities of our applications, identifying specific customer requirements, and identifying how those requirements can best be met using our applications. Our Business Architects have a strong background in the property and casualty insurance space, possess expert Guidewire product knowledge and understand the critical skills required to collect software requirements. In addition to working with the customer to gather requirements, they work with the configuration and integration team members to ensure that the requirements are well understood, and that the applications are tailored to satisfy the customer’s strategic needs.

The Business Architects’ key responsibility is in understanding what the true business need is in any requirement – and redefining / aligning them to Guidewire application capabilities. This is critical in ensuring customers get the true value out of the Guidewire applications – that is using as much of the OOTB systems as possible and reducing implementation expense of over-configuring the system.

The ideal candidate will be proficient in agile implementation methodologies and enterprise scale implementations as well as be able to apply Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) principles to bridge the gap between business needs and technical implementation, ensuring alignment through collaborative scenario definition and acceptance criteria. Deep knowledge and expertise in the relevant insurance area, as well as experience using technology to meet insurers' needs is required.

We’re committed to an inclusive workspace that embraces people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents.

If you are proactive, strategic, and ready to lead, this role offers a significant opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Set project or team-based standards for requirements definition and design, then advise on their application and ensures compliance 

• Investigate and implement tools, techniques, and processes for managing configuration and requirements items and verify that related information is complete, current, and accurate  

• Runs elaboration sessions to capture requirements beyond Guidewire InsuranceSuite such as data, reporting, analytics, forms, integrations, etc. 

• Define complex requirements and validate specifications that leverage Guidewire Products and technology to meet customer business objectives

• Learn and master the functionality provided by Guidewire applications in order to become a customer facing professional services consultant

• Apply robust product knowledge …