Sr Architect

TekWissen•Worcester, MA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This role involves strategic planning and road mapping activities, particularly for Guidewire Policy Center implementations. The Sr Architect will drive technology and thought leadership across technical projects involving Guidewire applications, ensuring project documentation for the Architecture Review Board and managing the tenants of the project's architecture. The position also promotes the reuse of technologies and processes, develops reference architecture, and manages technical risk. Leading the evaluation of architecture components, planning the integration of new technologies, and communicating the enterprise application platform vision are key aspects of this role. Additionally, the Sr Architect will ensure software portfolio conformance and mentor other architects.

Requirements

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 client'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.
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.
Foresight: Manage short-term, medium-term, and long-term planning horizons concurrently.
Consensus Building: Enable a group of people with diverse backgrounds to accept a majority or common conclusion without damaging relationships.
Facilitation: Guide a debate without forcing a conclusion while ensuring all participants have an opportunity to voice ideas and opinions.
Leadership: Influence a broad audience to adopt a particular path and be respected as a leader regardless of position/role in the organization.
Logic: Select the best solution from a range of options to resolve an issue or seize an opportunity.
Communication: Effectively convey the results of the architecture, the process to develop it, and the value it provides by demonstrating the applicability of technology to the business.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 10 years in the industry with at least 5 years as a Senior Solution Architect with increasing development responsibility.
Exposure to multiple, diverse business systems, technologies, and processing environments.
Solution design and development experience.
Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application.
Experience with GW PC cloud migration, data integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance tuning.
Broad understanding of Property/Casualty systems & applications.
Understanding of how changes/updates affect not only the specific domain but also other systems in the assigned business unit.

Responsibilities

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.