高级架构师 - 会德语
Senior Architect - German Speaking
**简介**
作为高级架构师，您是Guidewire在最复杂客户项目中的可信赖领导者。您将指导整体解决方案策略，领导架构治理，并通过将客户目标与可扩展、可维护的Guidewire解决方案对齐来确保交付成功。
**职位描述**
作为高级架构师，您是Guidewire在最复杂客户项目中的可信赖领导者。您将指导整体解决方案策略，领导架构治理，并通过将客户目标与可扩展、可维护的Guidewire解决方案对齐来确保交付成功。
您将作为跨职能的思考伙伴——与项目经理、客户高管、开发人员和产品团队紧密合作。您的经验和影响力将塑造关键决策，推动技术标准，并支持项目中的持续改进。
这是一个对在架构、领导力和在大型企业项目中建立信心方面表现出色的人士至关重要的角色。
**主要职责**
- 解决方案架构
- 负责一个或多个大型项目或组合的端到端技术架构
- 与客户一起开展发现和设计研讨会，以了解业务和技术需求
- 在PolicyCenter、BillingCenter、ClaimCenter和Guidewire Cloud Platform上构建复杂解决方案
- 定义符合最佳实践的可重用设计模式，以支持长期可维护性
- 确保解决方案与客户的云战略、数据需求、性能要求和安全标准保持一致
- 配置关键组件，包括用户界面、业务规则、工作流和实体模型
- 利用AI工具提高生产力，并推动AI在Guidewire产品和服务交付中的应用创新
**技术领导力与治理**
- 为架构师、高级顾问和开发人员提供技术方向和指导
- 审查和验证实施设计和配置
- 预见技术风险并主动设计缓解策略
- 领导功能/技术路线的架构治理流程，以确保一致的质量
- 支持Guidewire和客户团队解决复杂或系统性问题
- 战略客户与利益相关者参与
- 作为客户架构和领导团队的可信赖技术顾问
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**Summary**
As a Senior Architect, you are a trusted Guidewire leader across Guidewire’s most complex customer implementations. You’ll guide overall solution strategy, lead architectural governance, and ensure delivery success by aligning client goals with scalable, maintainable Guidewire solutions.
**Job Description**
As a Senior Architect, you are a trusted Guidewire leader across Guidewire’s most complex customer implementations. You’ll guide overall solution strategy, lead architectural governance, and ensure delivery success by aligning client goals with scalable, maintainable Guidewire solutions.
You will act as a cross-functional thought partner—working closely with Engagement Managers, customer executives, developers, and product teams. Your experience and influence will shape critical decisions, drive technical standards, and support continuous improvement across projects.
This is a key role for someone who excels in architecture, leadership, and building confidence with stakeholders across large-scale, enterprise programs.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Solution Architecture
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture across one or more large programs or portfolios
- Lead discovery and design workshops with customers to understand business and technical needs
- Architect complex solutions across PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, and Guidewire Cloud Platform
- Define reusable design patterns conforming to best practices that support long-term maintainability
- Align solutions with customer cloud strategy, data needs, performance requirements, and security standards
- Configure key components, including user interfaces, business rules, workflows, and entity models
- Leverages AI tools to drive productivity improvements and drives innovation in the application of AI to enhance the delivery of Guidewire’s products and services
**Technical Leadership and Governance**
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to Architects, Lead Consultants, and Developers
- Review and validate implementation designs and configurations
- Anticipate technical risks and proactively design mitigation strategies
- Lead architectural governance processes for a functional / technical track to ensure consistent quality
- Support Guidewire and customer teams in troubleshooting complex or systemic issues
- Strategic Client and Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customer architecture and leadership teams
- Present technical solutions and roadmaps to senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence
- Support pre-sales and proposal efforts by reviewing estimates, and architecture viability
- Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Cloud teams to resolve product questions and surface roadmap needs
- Internal Impact and Enablement
- Contribute to internal architecture standards, playbooks, and reusable solution assets
- Mentor junior Architects and help develop technical leadership across the PS organisation
- Participate in architecture forums and knowledge-sharing sessions across regions
- Represent Professional Services in cross-functional strategic initiatives or internal pilots
**KPIs & Success Metrics**
- Architectural Excellence – Solutions meet performance, security, and scalability goals across large or complex programs
- Stakeholder Confidence & Influence – Trusted advisor status with clients, evidenced by positive feedback and solution adoption
- Delivery Support & Risk Mitigation – Reduced delivery issues due to effective oversight and early risk identification
**Key Skills & Experience**
- Experience in enterprise software architecture, with relevant delivery lead experience
- Proven experience delivering enterprise solutions in the insurance sector; prior work with core insurance platforms (Guidewire or similar) is strongly preferred but not required.
- Strong command of Java, Gosu, REST APIs, cloud-native architecture
- Proven ability to design and scale solutions across multiple workstreams or regions
- Skilled in leading architectural governance and code/design review processes
- Experience in translating business needs into long-term technology strategies
- Effective communicator with customer program management, architects, and development teams
- Proficiency in Agile delivery and hybrid cloud implementation strategies
- Involvement in pre-sales, including reviewing architectural viability
- Ability to lead and inspire others through collaboration
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
**Preferred Skills & Experience**
- Multiple Guidewire certifications, including Cloud or Architect credentials
- Experience leading multi-region or multi-vendor delivery programs
- Expertise in Insurance domain
- Knowledge of insurance enterprise systems and core domain processes
- Experience leading digital transformation or cloud migration programs
- Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and performance architecture
- Strong DevOps awareness and cloud automation experience
- Contributions to internal frameworks, accelerators, or reusable architecture assets
**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 540+ insurers in 40 countries, 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 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications 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.