Guidewire Senior Solution Architect - Insurance experience - £120K + bonus

****GUIDEWIRE & INSURANCE EXPERIENCE IS ESSENTIAL****

Guidewire, Insurance industry experience, Senior Solution Architect, Solution Architecture, lead the governance, architecture guidance / oversight and management of the legacy and emerging platforms.

An Insurance market leader is looking for a Senior Solution Architect who is experienced with Guidewire and architecting within the insurance sector.

The role:

• Develop application and system roadmaps associated with applications transformation and modernization
• Develop flexible, adaptable, modular, and reusable solution designs in collaboration with business stakeholders and the IT development teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards
• Support the definition of high-level operational models, and prepare business cases in alignment with the IT security and quality guidelines. Present business cases, for operational and tactical technical initiatives, for approval, funding and prioritization
• Uphold appropriate solution architecture governance processes and tools while maintaining focus on design patterns and technology standards
• Be the accountable individual for the finalization, acceptance and approval of solutions you architected, by relevant stakeholders
• Act as an enabler of Agile and DevSecOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams
• Explore, evaluate and promote technology innovation within the organization

The following skills/ experience is required:

• Experience in the insurance (e.g. UW, Claim, Policy Issuance)
• Experience designing solutions including policy administration systems, ERP and customer / agent-facing portals with Guidewire experience
• Knowledge of design and implementation of solutions and systems using custom built and CoTS / MoTS applications hosted in the cloud and on-prem.
• Substantial knowledge of the system development life cycle and the scaled agile methodology. Certifications preferred.
• Demonstrate competence to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system architecture design, using state of the art rule/framework-based architecture, object-oriented component analysis and proficiency in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture and enterprise application architecture.
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API based, Micro Services and Cloud technologies.