Business Architect, Digital

Love solving sticky problems? Excited about crafting innovative solutions for a leading global software company in the Insurance space? Interested in working on digital solutions and services that touch everyone’s lives? We are a multidisciplinary Digital team working to make innovative solutions that are at the forefront of the business transformation within the insurance industry.

The Guidewire Digital Practice is a group of highly motivated technology engineers, user experience designers, and domain experts working with insurance clients, InsurTechs and delivery partners in current, leading-edge technologies delivering exciting, customer-facing projects.

We are seeking individuals with deep P&C Insurance Domain experience to work across Business, User Experience (UX)design, and Digital Engineering in an agile, collaborative, and dynamic environment across multiple client projects.

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

**To be considered you should have a combination of experience in the following**:

- Have a strong understanding of Design Thinking practices to facilitate customer discussions to drive innovative customer centric solutions for our carriers
- Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit and document business and system requirements specific to P&C insurance products and services.
- Conduct workshops, interviews, and focus groups with insurance professionals to understand pain points, workflow requirements, and business rules.
- Collaborate with insurance carrier business and SI partner resources across business, technology, and UX to produce business requirements and business process documents
- Able to adhere and promote an operating framework for making decisions, managing stakeholder relationships, and identifying legitimate authority
- Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for software development teams.
- Communicate with stakeholders to ensure necessary buy-in
- Able to facilitate business design and support solution estimates for complex product gaps and enhancements
- Prepare and present reports, demos, and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Able to provide verbal and written feedback, and help team members develop advanced skills in their designated focus areas

**What you need to be successful**:

- 8-10 years project experience in insurance, technology, or a related field.
- Industry knowledge of the P&C insurance industry with primary focus on customer facing operations and processes
- Capability to communicate clearly and efficiently as well as influence outcomesAbility to solve complex problems analytically
- Able to lead medium sized implementation projects
- Ability to identify when business requirements are not in scope
- Experience with software implementation project(s) in requirements gathering, functional specifications, and user acceptance testing
- Familiar working with UX, Data, and Digital teams is a plus.
- Exceptional documentation skills, and the ability to facilitate discussions with both technical and business stakeholders
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex data in a simple and actionable way.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Eagerness to learn and grow in the role with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment.
- BSc in Computer Science/Arts or equivalent.
- Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to AMER/APAC colleagues/customers).
- ** Collaboration**: We build on each other’s ideas and draw on interdisciplinary approaches to craft impactful experiences.
- ** Integrity**: We stand behind our words and commitments as part of a global community, respecting and recognizing our interdependence.
- ** Curiosity**: We are lifelong learners, with a growth mindset, who are passionate about advancing our discipline through entertaining new ideas and unique perspectives.

**About Guidewire**

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.