What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Guidewire Architecture position at PMA Companies?
As a Guidewire Architect within our architecture organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your broad Guidewire architecture experience by helping to support a strategic Guidewire initiative. You will provide consulting and be a champion for helping to establish Guidewire architecture practices that will help align capabilities within Guidewire to fit the needs of our business groups.
Duties and responsibilities
- Lead the design and deployment of Guidewire solutions (Policy, Billing and Claims) leveraging best practices and architectural principles.
- Help to establish governance and control processes to ensure successful and healthy Guidewire implementations
- Demonstrate a strong passion for following and sharing Guidewire's Cloud roadmap and highlight opportunities and challenges to complement our initiatives
- Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Architecture Modernization
- Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
- Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization driving continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
- Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions
- Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps
- Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
- Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
- Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent
- Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the Guidewire platform
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
- Architecture experience
- Previous experience with Guidewire Cloud, Policy Center, Billing Center and Claim Center
- Provided mentorship to developers
- Organizational and transformational experience in an agile operating model
- Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
- Strong proven Software Engineering experience
- Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
- Proven track record of influencing senior leadership
- Insurance technology experience
- Current deep experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps
- Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud would be preferred
- Good understanding of security
- Experienced with large scale technology platforms
Work Environment :
If you are passionate about Guidewire cloud architecture and look to drive our company toward our next phase of growth, we invite you to apply and become a key player in our IT organization.
