Guidewire Solution Architect

Guidewire Solution Architect

Position Description
Do you want to influence the success of the transformation of the customer's insurance area through your work? Now is the perfect opportunity for that, as we are looking for a new person for the Solution Architect role to support our journey. Could this be your next opportunity?

Working within CGI Financial Services, you will be working on large scale technology and systems integrations projects. You are a seasoned, hands-on Guidewire Solution Architect with deep Property and Casualty Insurance industry knowledge and experience implementing Guidewire. You will be responsible for defining the technical and architectural vision - designing, implementing, and managing the integration of various systems and applications. This role involves working closely with our clients to understand their business requirements and develop the architectural roadmap. You will play a critical role in ensuring that defined solutions are efficient, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

In this role you will:

- Work with the client stakeholders to define high level application and technical blueprint and requirements aligned to the key functional and business capabilities that need to be implemented.
- Define which application components are required to implement each of the required functional and business capabilities, which component will be built vs. re-used vs. integrated with, and how.
- Define how the components of all the applications relate to each other, and how they will support the capability or business area.
- Understand the capabilities and limitations of the technical components and key domain applications.
- Define and design the integration of various systems, applications, and data sources to ensure seamless communication and data flow and working together with peer architects.
- Keeping up to date with latest Guidewire development; by doing continuous training or keeping up with the latest features.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to design and development teams, ensuring best practices and standards are followed across development, runtime, and operations architecture.

Key Skills:

- Knowledge and experience of Guidewire including at least two of the following components: PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimsCenter.
- Strong understanding of the property and casualty insurance value chain
- Guidewire certification(s) - ACE (preferred)
- Knowledge and experience of implementing Guidewire Suite (incl. all Centers).
- In-depth knowledge of Guidewire software solutions and their best practices and standards for implementation and knowledge of integrating Guidewire into the wider technology architecture
- Deep hands-on experience leading designs, configurations, integrations, upgrades, and optimizations of Guidewire projects (implementations, upgrades, optimization, migration, and support).
- Proven experience as Application and or Systems Architect or similar role, with a strong background in system integration.
- Ability to provide technical / Guidewire leadership and guidance to our teams and our clients during implementation.
- Ability to design and develop cost effective solutions and evaluate and propose technical alternatives to resolve business and technology issues.
- Ability to develop application and technical architecture as new requirements arise.
- Ability to document and communicate the status of progress against plans, taking corrective action as necessary
- Knowledge of integration technologies, tools and architectural patterns including: APIs, microservices, cloud integration platforms, event-driven architecture.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to define complex multi-systems architectures and solutions.

Preferred Skills:

- Knowledge and experience of Scaled agile delivery
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and especially Guidewire cloud.
- Knowledge of data integration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Relevant certifications in enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF).

We offer you

We know that success depends on people and culture, not forgetting about providing you with the tools, support and resources to grow. At CGI, you'll create a career path that's right for you through exciting assignments and internal career rotation. You can also continuously develop your skills and deepen your knowledge through CGI Academy or our Storm communities.

We offer you a job where you can develop in the direction you want, but also the opportunity to own shares of the company through our unique share purchase plan. 85% of our employees are shareholders, which is why we are called CGI Partners.

We also work flexibly when life circumstances require it. We take care of you and your wellbeing with a wide range of employee benefits, including comprehensive occupational health care, leisure insurance, childcare service when a child falls ill and bicycle benefit. By participating in CGI's wellbeing communities, you have the opportunity to get to know colleagues from all over the company through shared activities.

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Next, we would like to hear more about you and your expertise:

The last application date is 31.1.2025. For more information about the position, please contact Heli Tolonen, Vice President Consulting Services, at: +358 405654516.

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