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Organization: Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)This team will operate as a dedicated strategic function within Professional Services, working closely with Product Development, Sales, and Customer Success. Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of industry-wide solutions through strategic co-development partnerships with key customers. This initiative will establish a SWAT team within Professional Services to identify, cultivate, and operationalize these partnerships, demonstrating Guidewire Professional Services’ unique value proposition and capturing premium service opportunities.
Role Overview
As a Business Architect, you’ll be a senior domain leader who ensures that customer needs, industry practices, and InnoCoDev solutions remain tightly aligned. You’ll define and scale business frameworks that guide co-development projects across multiple customers and markets.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Lead requirements definition and validation for co-development initiatives.
Shape reusable business frameworks and solution patterns across multiple accounts.
Act as the bridge between industry knowledge and solution design.
Influence product direction by bringing continuous market insights into Guidewire development.
Mentor Business Analysts, helping them grow into versatile consultants.
Represent InnoCoDev externally as a thought partner to customers.
Qualifications
10+ years of experience in P&C insurance operations, systems, or transformation.
Strong track record of business architecture, process design, or consulting.
Demonstrated ability to lead workshops with executives and shape customer decisions.
Recognized as a trusted advisor with deep industry expertise.
Culture Fit
Consulting versatility, communication skills, and industry empathy.
Ownership mindset: delivery, quality, cost, scope, timeline.
Cultural fit with InnoCoDev: empowerment, accountability, transparency, agility, risk-taking.
Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.
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.
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