Solution Architect - Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)

Summary

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect, you will be a senior leader within the Solution Track. You’ll serve as both technical authority and trusted advisor, leading design, customer engagement, and delivery across industry co-development projects.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design for strategic customer initiatives.

• Engage directly with executives and business stakeholders to influence strategy and adoption.

• Guide Solution Engineers and Consultants, providing coaching and quality oversight.

• Represent InnoCoDev externally as a thought leader, shaping customer outcomes and influencing industry practices.

• Collaborate closely with Product Development to feed real-world insights into the Guidewire roadmap.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in P&C insurance technology, solution architecture, or consulting.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs and coach teams.

• Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS platforms (Guidewire preferred).

• Recognized as a trusted advisor by customers; experience presenting to senior leadership.

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.