Software Architect, InsuranceSuite Practice

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><li>
<strong>Solution Architecture and Technical Leadership:</strong>Lead end-to-end technical architecture for complex Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementations across Latin America, covering PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter from initial design through go-live and post-launch stabilization.</li><li>
<strong>Business Requirements and Solution Design:</strong>Translate customer business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions encompassing application configuration, integrations, data migration considerations, and cloud infrastructure.</li><li>
<strong>Architecture Governance:</strong>Own critical technical decisions involving data models, integration patterns, application extensibility, performance, scalability, resilience, and security, ensuring alignment with established architectural standards and best practices.</li><li>
<strong>Technical Design Reviews:</strong>Review and validate technical designs, configuration strategies, integration specifications, and implementation approaches developed by project teams and delivery partners to ensure consistency, quality, and long-term maintainability.</li><li>
<strong>Hands-On Technical Problem-Solving:</strong>Investigate and resolve complex issues across application, integration, and data layers. Conduct design and code reviews while providing technical guidance to consultants and engineering teams.</li><li>
<strong>Reusable Frameworks and Best Practices:</strong>Develop and promote reusable implementation patterns, accelerators, frameworks, and technical assets that reduce delivery effort, improve implementation quality, and accelerate time to value across regional projects.</li><li>
<strong>Cloud Architecture and Delivery:</strong>Align implementation architectures with cloud platform capabilities, supporting cloud adoption, deployment strategies, operational readiness, and reliable production environments.</li><li>
<strong>Performance and Non-Functional Requirements:</strong>Identify and manage technical risks throughout the delivery lifecycle, addressing performance optimization, scalability, system resilience, security, and operational reliability.</li><li>
<strong>Product and Engineering Collaboration:</strong>Work with Product, Research and Development, and Cloud teams to share customer feedback, influence product roadmaps, and align implementation solutions with evolving platform capabilities.</li><li>
<strong>Project Estimation and Planning:</strong>Contribute to proposals and delivery planning by assessing technical scope, resource requirements, implementation effort, dependencies, risks, and architectural constraints.</li><li>
<strong>Customer and Partner Advisory:</strong>Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders and implementation partners, leading architecture workshops, explaining design trade-offs, and documenting technical decisions and their rationale.</li><li>
<strong>Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing:</strong>Coach architects and consultants, strengthen technical capabilities across distributed teams, and promote consistent architecture and engineering standards throughout the regional practice.</li><li>
<strong>AI-Enabled Engineering:</strong>Explore and apply AI-assisted development, knowledge tools, and automation to improve architectural analysis, software development, and troubleshooting efficiency.</li><li>
<strong>Delivery Excellence:</strong>Help improve implementation quality, reduce delivery risks, and accelerate cloud adoption across strategic insurance transformation programs in Latin America.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>
<strong>Professional Experience:</strong>At least 10 years of experience in enterprise software implementation or architecture, including involvement in large-scale transformation initiatives or complex core system programs.</li><li>
<strong>Guidewire InsuranceSuite Experience:</strong>Hands-on implementation experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite, particularly PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter. At least two years of experience is advantageous, while four or more years is preferred, including configuration and integration work.</li><li>
<strong>Technical Architecture Expertise:</strong>Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end enterprise architectures covering application configuration, integrations, data migration considerations, and non-functional requirements.</li><li>
<strong>Programming Skills:</strong>Strong proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Gosu or Java, or a comparable language used in enterprise software development.</li><li>
<strong>Integration Technologies:</strong>Solid understanding of REST and SOAP APIs, messaging patterns, batch processing, and enterprise system integration.</li><li>
<strong>Cloud Platform Experience:</strong>Experience working with cloud environments, preferably Guidewire Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, including deployment processes, environment management, and operational considerations.</li><li>
<strong>P&amp;C Insurance Knowledge:</strong>Strong understanding of property and casualty insurance processes, including policy administration, billing, and claims management, and how these processes map to InsuranceSuite capabilities.</li><li>
<strong>Technical Leadership:</strong>Proven ability to lead architectural decisions, review implementation approaches, resolve complex technical challenges, and guide multidisciplinary delivery teams.</li><li>
<strong>Consulting and Communication Skills:</strong>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead technical workshops, explain complex concepts and trade-offs to non-technical audiences, and document architectural decisions clearly.</li><li>
<strong>Agile Delivery Experience:</strong>Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project delivery environments, particularly with distributed teams and multiple implementation partners.</li><li>
<strong>English Proficiency:</strong>Advanced written and spoken English, enabling effective collaboration with global stakeholders and participation in international technical discussions.</li><li>
<strong>Regional Language Skills:</strong>Professional proficiency in Portuguese and Spanish, in addition to English, to support customers and teams across Latin America.</li><li>
<strong>Location and Availability:</strong>Based in Brazil, comfortable working remotely while aligning with Latin American customer time zones, and available for occasional travel to customer sites or internal workshops.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred Architecture Experience:</strong>Previous experience as a Software Architect on multi-year, multi-vendor core system implementations or large enterprise transformation programs.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred Certifications:</strong>Guidewire InsuranceSuite, Integration, or Cloud certifications, and relevant cloud certifications such as AWS or Azure.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred Performance Engineering:</strong>Experience optimizing InsuranceSuite performance through profiling, query optimization, batch processing improvements, and environment sizing.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred Framework Development:</strong>Experience designing or building reusable accelerators, frameworks, or tools that improve Guidewire implementation efficiency.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred Mentoring Experience:</strong>Experience coaching architects and consultants, providing constructive feedback, and improving technical design quality across delivery teams.</li><li>
<strong>Preferred AI and Automation Skills:</strong>Familiarity with AI-assisted development, knowledge management tools, or automation techniques that accelerate architecture, analysis, and troubleshooting.</li><li>
<strong>AI and Data-Driven Mindset:</strong>Willingness to embrace AI and data-driven insights to improve software design, engineering decisions, and technical problem-solving.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>
<strong>Remote Work Flexibility:</strong>Work remotely from Brazil while collaborating with customers, partners, and colleagues across Latin America and other international locations.</li><li>
<strong>Strategic Technical Ownership:</strong>Lead architecture for complex enterprise implementations and influence critical design decisions across major insurance transformation programs.</li><li>
<strong>Professional Development:</strong>Strengthen your expertise in enterprise architecture, insurance technology, cloud platforms, and modern software engineering practices.</li><li>
<strong>Career Growth Opportunities:</strong>Expand your technical leadership and consulting experience while contributing to the development of a regional architecture practice.</li><li>
<strong>Global Collaboration:</strong>Work alongside international customers, implementation partners, product specialists, and engineering teams.</li><li>
<strong>Innovative Technology Environment:</strong>Gain exposure to cloud-based insurance platforms, digital transformation initiatives, analytics, and AI-enabled engineering practices.</li><li>
<strong>Technical Influence:</strong>Help shape reusable architecture patterns, implementation standards, and best practices that improve delivery quality across multiple projects.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful Business Impact:</strong>Support insurers in modernizing core systems, improving operational efficiency, and delivering better experiences to policyholders.</li><li>
<strong>Inclusive Work Culture:</strong>Join a professional environment that values integrity, collaboration, diverse perspectives, and continuous innovation.</li>