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Senior Software Architect, Tech Lead

Guidewire is widely recognized as the leading provider of software solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry. Our software offers property and casualty insurance companies the tools to take care of their customers when they need it the most, whether that is a time of crisis, a natural disaster, an accident, or exposure to cyber risks.

We are looking for a strong Technical Leader to join our Early Access and Adoption (EAA) team. Guidewire’s Early Access and Adoption team is responsible for ensuring new product capabilities can be adopted quickly and predictably for GA - for more value and less cost - for both new and migrating customers.

We are a team of highly experienced product and delivery experts dedicated to driving predictable adoption of product capabilities as they become generally available (GA). As a part of the product development organization, we are integrated into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from feature planning and design throughout development with a focus on adoption impacts. We work alongside implementation teams and other stakeholders on initial customer early access (EA) projects providing expert guidance as trusted advisors. We are accountable for creating and harvesting valuable learnings and applicable generalized content and publishing this via official documentation as product adoption resources to help support scaled adoption for GA.

In this role, you will lead a team of experts focused on enabling adoption of the latest Insurance Suite application areas and broad cloud platform capabilities as they progress from development, through early access programs and general availability.

As a leader within the Early Access and Adoption team, you will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment both internally within product development and externally with early access customers projects to assess product adoption impacts, verify target use cases, and provide early feedback as domain experts. You will also become an expert with prioritized capabilities and drive harvesting and creation of learnings and applicable generalized content. This would be an individual contributor role to start with and eventually may grow into a people manager role accountable for coaching and mentoring the business and technical architects supporting the workstream.

What we are looking for in this role

Independently or with minimal supervision own outcomes and VPMOM methods, sets direction for the team and takes accountability for execution.
Guidewire product and hands-on implementation experience within complex, enterprise environments.
Ability to quickly learn new product features and technologies with minimal support and guidance.
Passion and proven ability to share and scale knowledge and make other people’s jobs easier.
Able to clearly document SME knowledge and findings in draft form to share with enablement teams and technical writers.
Participate as a SME for Product documentation and Education.
Ability to become a trusted advisor internally and externally.
Ability to lead workshops as experts, internally and externally to customers and prospects.
At least 10 years of Software development experience using web technologies.
Ability to handle technical leadership tasks.

Other Skills/Experience:

Effective communication and collaboration skills
Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver
Strong English skills

Nice to have

Insurance industry experience

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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 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to (650) 356-4940 or Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

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