Sr. Guidewire Policy Center Architect - Randstad USA

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.
  
  
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