Senior Architect, InsuranceSuite Practice

Summary

Guidewire’s Professional Services InsuranceSuite Practice partners with P&C insurers across the Americas to implement our cloud, digital, and core applications so they can modernize, scale, and serve their customers with confidence.

As a Senior Architect in the InsuranceSuite Practice based in Brazil, you will act as a lead technical authority on complex InsuranceSuite implementations, combining deep product expertise with hands-on design and technical leadership across architecture, integration, performance, and cloud delivery. You’ll work closely with customers, partners, and internal teams across LATAM to define implementation patterns, reduce delivery risk and effort, and drive measurable business value from Guidewire’s platform.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end solution and technical architecture for complex Guidewire InsuranceSuite programs (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter) in LATAM, from inception through go-live and stabilization.
• Translate customer business requirements into scalable, maintainable implementation designs spanning configuration, integration, data, and cloud operations.
• Own critical design decisions (data model, integration patterns, performance and resiliency approaches, extensibility) and ensure alignment with Guidewire best practices and reference architectures.
• Guide and review detailed technical designs, configuration approaches, and integration specifications produced by project teams and partners, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: troubleshoot complex issues across application, integration, and data layers; perform design and code reviews; mentor architects and consultants.
• Define and champion reusable patterns, accelerators, and implementation best practices that reduce effort and improve quality across InsuranceSuite implementations in the region.
• Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Cloud teams to provide field feedback, influence roadmap, and align customer solutions with Guidewire Cloud Platform capabilities.
• Proactively manage technical risks and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, resilience, security) throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to estimation, scoping, and planning for proposals and delivery engagements, including effort, risk, and dependency assessment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer and partner technical leaders, facilitating architecture workshops and clearly documenting decisions and rationale.

What you’ll bring

Required

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and data-driven insights to improve how you design, build, and troubleshoot complex systems.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise software implementation or architecture, including several large-scale transformation or core system projects.
• 4+ years of hands-on Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation experience (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter), including configuration and integration.
• Strong expertise in at least one of: Gosu, Java, or similar object-oriented languages, plus solid understanding of REST/SOAP integrations, messaging, and batch processing.
• Proven experience designing end-to-end architectures covering configuration, integrations, data migration considerations, and non-functional requirements.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (ideally Guidewire Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure), including environments, deployments, and operational concerns.
• Strong understanding of P&C insurance concepts (policy, billing, claims) and how they map into InsuranceSuite.
• Excellent communication and consulting skills: able to lead technical workshops, explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and document decisions clearly.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or hybrid delivery environments on distributed teams.
• Advanced English communication skills (written and spoken); ability to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders.
• Based in Brazil with the ability to work remotely and align to LATAM customer time zones; occasional travel for customer or internal workshops as needed.
• Spanish and/or Portuguese language skills in addition to English.

Preferred

• 4+ years of hands-on Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation experience (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter), including configuration and integration.
• Prior experience in a Senior/Lead Architect role on multi-year, multi-vendor core system or large program implementations.
• Guidewire certifications (InsuranceSuite, Integration, Cloud) and/or cloud certifications (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with performance tuning and scalability for InsuranceSuite (profiling, query optimization, batch performance, environment sizing).
• Experience defining and/or building reusable accelerators, frameworks, or tools for Guidewire implementations.
• Experience coaching and mentoring architects/consultants and providing feedback on design quality and implementation approaches.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development, knowledge tools, or automation to accelerate design, analysis, or troubleshooting.

Your impact

In your first 6–12 months, you will lead architecture for one or more strategic InsuranceSuite programs in LATAM, de-risking critical design decisions, improving solution quality, and accelerating time-to-value. Over time, your patterns, assets, and mentorship will uplift the broader InsuranceSuite Practice and partner ecosystem, directly supporting Professional Services’ goals of reducing implementation effort, scaling cloud adoption, and delivering measurable value for our customers.

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.