Guidewire Architect

This position provides architecture leadership for AF Group's core insurance platform ecosystem, with a primary focus on Guidewire InsuranceSuite and Guidewire Cloud initiatives. The Architect II will partner with business and technology teams to design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, ContactManager, and associated integration platforms. The role will help define architecture standards, modernization strategies, cloud adoption patterns, and integration approaches supporting AF Group's strategic Guidewire roadmap.nn * Provides architecture leadership and technical direction for Guidewire InsuranceSuite applications, including PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, and ContactManager.n * Designs and review Guidewire Cloud and on-premises solution architectures, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.n * Defines integration strategies between Guidewire applications and enterprise systems utilizing APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, and cloud services.n * Partners with Guidewire, system integrators, and internal development teams to evaluate and implement platform upgrades, cloud migrations, and modernization initiatives.n * Establishes Guidewire development, integration, deployment, and configuration best practices to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions.n * Provides technical leadership for Guidewire application performance, security, scalability, resiliency, and operational readiness.n * Evaluates new Guidewire capabilities, accelerators, and cloud services and provide recommendations for adoption.n * Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting.n * Participates in formulating solution estimates and work planning including determining appropriate task sequencing and identification of technical skill sets required.n * Builds consensus around principles of infrastructure architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.n * Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.n * Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and blueprints.n * Evaluates strengths and flaws in infrastructure design including performance, quality, availability, simplicity of design, security, and total cost of ownership.n * Assists in the facilitation of project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating, and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.n * Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners and provides consultation to the business teams.n * Troubleshoots, recommends, and executes action plans for issue resolution.n * Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects.n * Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares bench marking reports and presentations.n * Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.n * Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.n * Stays updated on current technology trends and industry best practices.n * Provides technical leadership and works effectively with different teams including Product Managers, Project Managers, and Engineers.n * Fosters a healthy, collaborative, and productive scrum team culture.n * Works with other leads in a project setting to define and execute a software architecture t