The selected Architecture Delivery Specialist (Guidewire) will have a deep understanding of our business goals, capabilities, value-streams, and integrated processes. The Architect Specialist is a Guidewire technical leader who works collaboratively across the organization. This highly visible role works closely with Project teams and Product Owners within an Agile framework to design, develop and/or adopt technologies that meet the organization's needs. Specifically, creating solutions that connect components and applications that allow multiple processes to interact across our network, as well as within a variety of current and future planned cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with business stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software and/or applications. Provide Guidewire platform recommended business workflow and architecture, understanding requirements, and helping each project team to document them.

• Designs and supports the application architecture utilized by in-house developed applications, vendor applications and databases; ensures development efforts are carried out using a consistent and quality driven approach.

• Serves as a hands-on Guidewire Specialist Architect to include code and framework development. Provides hands on technical support, guidance and coaching to Guidewire developers.

• Oversees progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design. Also ensures the software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility, etc.

• Designs and implements long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining Guidewire software systems and platform. (Including assessing and addressing technical risks.)

Position can be based at our beautiful Home Office in Sarasota, Florida or any of the following office FCCI locations: Lake Mary, FL or Lawrenceville, GA or Richardson, TX. The position is eligible for our hybrid work schedule (3) days in the office and (2) working remote.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT or information systems.
• Six or more years of experience with Guidewire product suite including hands on expertise in Claim and Billing administration.
• Experience leading Guidewire best practices and end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery.
• Strong commercial property & casualty (P&C) insurance knowledge.
• Working knowledge of Cloud Computing Technologies & Services.
• Certifications in Guidewire platform in configuration and integrations.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments.
• Advanced knowledge of the design and development of solutions across different functional domains leveraging varied technologies.
• Experience with multiple middleware technologies (Application Servers, ESB & Message Brokers), Programming languages (e.g. Java, .Net, JavaScript), Operating Systems (e.g. Windows, Red hat Linux), Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, No SQL Databases like MongoDB etc.) preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more operating systems, databases, & programming languages used by FCCI.
• Experience supporting custom and third-party business applications, as well as understanding project interdependencies and systems integrations.
• Advanced working knowledge of server hardware, software, and related equipment and technologies.
• Solid understanding of Agile framework and incremental SDLC.
• Ability to understand and improve systems; evaluates system’s current state/practices and recommend modifications.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to analyze, define and solve problems, the use of good judgment and decision-making.

• Experience working with commercial insurance and related business processes preferred, but not required.
• Cloud certification preferred, but not required.