<h3>Summary</h3>As a Senior Business Architect, you are a trusted 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>This is a key role for someone who excels in architecture, leadership, and building confidence with stakeholders across large-scale, enterprise programs.<h3>Job Description<p></p><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p></h3><h3><b>Business Architecture</b></h3><ul><li><p><b>Ace Certified in more than one Product and knowledgeable on how all the products interact</b></p></li><li><p><b>Sets project or team-based standards for requirements definition and design, then advises on their application and ensures compliance</b></p></li><li><p><b>Investigates and implements tools, techniques, and processes for managing configuration and requirements items and verifies that related information is complete, current, and accurate</b></p></li><li><p><b>Runs elaboration sessions to capture requirements beyond InsuranceSuite such as data, reporting, analytics, forms, integrations, etc.</b></p></li><li><p><b>Defines requirements and validates specifications that leverage Guidewire Products and technology to meet customer business objectives</b></p></li><li><p><b>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</b></p></li></ul><h3><b>Business Consulting Leadership and Governance</b></h3><ul><li><p><b>Act as Guidewire lead for a functional / technical workstream</b></p></li><li><p><b>Provide mentorship and oversight to BA team members, ensuring alignment with base functionality</b></p></li><li><p><b>Review and approve requirements definitions</b></p></li><li><p><b>Ensure alignment of requested enhancements with customer business goals</b></p></li><li><p><b>Anticipate application risks and proactively develop mitigation strategies</b></p></li><li><p><b>Support Guidewire and customer teams in troubleshooting complex system issues</b></p></li></ul><h3><b>Strategic Client and Stakeholder Engagement</b></h3><ul><li><p><b>Act as a trusted advisor to customer business and leadership teams</b></p></li><li><p><b>Present proposed solutions and roadmaps to senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence</b></p></li><li><p><b>Support pre-sales and proposal efforts by reviewing alignment of the proposed solution to the customer’s value proposition</b></p></li><li><p><b>Collaborate with Product, R&amp;D, and Cloud teams to resolve product questions and surface roadmap needs</b></p>