Guidewire Solution Architect - Property/Casualty
About The Position
COUNTRY Financial is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and highly motivated Guidewire Solution Architect to join the Commercial & Agribusiness Insurance Application Development team. This key role provides oversight and technical direction to teams comprised of business partners and technology team members from COUNTRY Financial, a System Integrator, and Software Vendors to deliver solutions. You will work closely with software vendors and System Integrator vendors and engage with many areas across COUNTRY Technology to ensure successful delivery of system functions that meet business partner expectations. You will work with senior leadership to clear blockers and share the successes of the teams. This role supports the development and implementation of the new Guidewire PolicyCenter policy administration system for farm and commercial lines of business, as well as supporting the commercial lines of business already in production.
Requirements
- Typically requires 14+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training.
- Strong organization, written and oral communication skills.
- Experience with Commercial Lines Property/Casualty insurance products.
- Expert level knowledge of Guidewire’s PolicyCenter, including configuration and integration capabilities, cloud implementations.
- Demonstrated forward thinking skills, ability to look at the overall needs of the business area supported and contributed to the direction and recommend improvement ideas.
- Proven experience working developers on technical requirements to design solutions.
- Proven ability to work with support teams resolving complex issues related to performance.
- Be able to present to leadership or business audiences.
- Ability to do impact analysis of a change to a system you support, and other systems impacted.
- Must be able to perform under pressure, multitask, prioritize, and show appropriate sense of urgency.
- Proven ability of working within an Agile development life cycle (including a strong understanding of the interactions between engineers, analysts, and testers).
- Experience working on large strategic, multi-phase projects involving multiple teams and 50+ employees.
- Experience using Rally.
- Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, BitBucket and GitLab.
Responsibilities
- Designs solutions after gathering business and technical requirements.
- Develops software solutions that are high performing and meet technical standards.
- Supports testing and problem solving/debugging of solutions.
- Implements software solutions following best practices.
- Provides guidance on data model changes and code quality, including support of teams in code reviews.
- Resolves complex issues related to performance.
- Creates process diagrams for business solutions.
- Presents to leadership or business audiences.
- Performs impact analysis of a change to a system you support, and other systems impacted.
Benefits
- Insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life)
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off to volunteer in your community
- Tuition assistance and industry education certificates and designations
- Employee resource groups
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
