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sr. guidewire policy center architect.

• worcester , massachusetts

• posted 4 days ago

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• $70 - $85 per hour

• temp to perm

• bachelor degree

• category computer and mathematical occupations

• reference1074937

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job summary:

The Senior Architect provides leadership and facilitation for project or program solution design, specifically focusing on the Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application. This role involves guiding projects on their overall high-level solution approach, engaging with the broader project team, and representing the solution design at formal architecture review and approvals meetings. The Senior Architect is the owner of the project solution architecture process and solution architecture artifacts.

location: WORCESTER, Massachusetts

job type: Contract

salary: $70 - 85 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

At an expert level, the Senior Architect is responsible for:

• Strategic planning and road mapping activities, particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementations.

• 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.

Key Measures of Success:

• Delivering technical design and approach.

• Providing position statements and solution patterns.

• Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones

Required Skills & Competencies and Experience:

Skill:

• At an expert level, uses core solution architecture skills:

• 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 Hanover'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.

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 business value proposition or reduce costs.

• Results-driven Attitude: Deliver appropriate solutions based on Enterprise Architecture principles and compliance rules within required timeframes.

• 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.

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 Architect with increasing development responsibility.

• Exposure to multiple, diverse business systems, technologies, and processing environments.

• Solution design and development experience.

• Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.

• Experience with GW PC cloud migration, data integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance tuning.

• Insurance Industry & Product Knowledge:

• Broad understanding of Property/Casualty systems & applications.

• Understanding of how changes/updates affect not only the specific domain but also other systems in the assigned business unit.

qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced

• Minimum 8 years of experience

• Education: Bachelors (required)

skills:

• Cloud (8 years of experience is preferred)

• Azure (5 years of experience is preferred)

• Azure (8 years of experience is preferred)

• guidewire (5 years of experience is preferred)

• guidewire policy center (5 years of experience is preferred)Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).This posting is open for thirty (30) days.It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.