Guidewire Solution Architect with P & C insurance - Exciting Challenge

Solution Architect with P&C Insurance

Job Description:

Strong P&C background Solution Architect

Be responsible for understanding and enforcing enterprise architectural principals, standards & patterns at the project level.

Drives technology and thought leadership across technical projects.

Responsible for strategic planning and road mapping activities.

Act with oversight from senior Architecture personnel and consults/enlists other architecture team members as required.

Work in close partnership with business community, business analysts, information and data architects to design and deliver impactful business software solutions.

Be responsible for technical approach, high level and detailed design of the project in accordance with architectural standards.

Be responsible for enforcing the use of standard tools and products across projects as directed by the Enterprise Architecture Organization

Champion and conform applications to accepted Development Operations (DevOps) practices

Identify and document the nonfunctional requirements for the application design.

Support the project implementation team and SME for Production Support team for occasional troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts

Work in close collaboration with project manager for project status and estimation of resource needs

Assist the project manager in recognizing and mitigating any risks to the solution's overall success or to existing systems and business processes.

Understands and mitigate the technical design on security, performance and data privacy through review of proposed configurations and system implementations.

Explain existing system capabilities to key business users as well as any modifications in support of business processes.

Keep abreast and leverages existing shared capabilities, products and software in proposed solutions.

Review any documentation provided by vendors and internal technical analysis teams for technical accuracy in meeting the business needs.

Review and approve technical specifications; supports subsequent delivery processes to ensure solution meets business and architectural objectives as envisioned.

Mentor technical leads and developers in answering questions regarding the architecture and design of our systems.

Ensure project compliance to approved software development methodologies.

Work comfortably in SDLC selected by project (waterfall, agile or combination of both)

Communicate both technically and conceptually to provide architecture leadership and guidance to business and technical team members throughout the course of the project.