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About the Role
QBE Europe is recruiting for a Lead Guidewire Architect to join our Architecture team. You will own and lead end-to-end programme architecture and design, shaping target architecture, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring coherent, scalable, and well-governed outcomes for a major five-year transformation of core insurance platforms.
Responsibilities
- Implement technology strategy, roadmaps, and patterns aligned with global architecture.
- Maximize alignment and reuse of technology for cost efficiencies.
- Monitor and review technical progress against roadmaps.
- Lead the establishment of strategy, reference architecture, and roadmaps for assigned domains.
- Conduct technology assurance and governance in line with architecture policy and practices.
- Facilitate the use of standardized tools and approaches for documenting enterprise architecture.
- Promote and embed architectural ways of working and due governance.
- Provide direction during technology decision-making activities supporting executive-level stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships within IT, business units, and external suppliers.
- Balance operational delivery and risk commitments by identifying and communicating risks.
- Run day-to-day architecture and design activity, including leading a team, chairing design forums, and resolving complex cross-domain issues.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading architecture across multiple large-scale, multi-year transformation programmes.
- Experience with legacy modernization, complex migration programmes supporting coexistence, transitional states, and risk management.
- Strong insurance and domain expertise working with and governing major systems integrators and strategic delivery partners.
- Hands-on experience with the Guidewire platform (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, Product Model).
- Strong understanding of Guidewire Cloud and upgrade strategies.
- Experience with modern insurance platforms (Guidewire, Hx, Salesforce) and associated ecosystem technologies.
- Strong business and domain expertise across the end-to-end insurance value chain.
- Ability to apply deep understanding of underwriting, pricing, distribution, policy administration, claims, finance, and regulatory obligations to architectural and design decisions.
- Alignment to architecture governance, ensuring adherence to principles, standards, and controls.
- Must have the right to work in the UK; sponsorship may be considered at QBE's discretion.
Skills
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Customer Service
- Data Architecture Development
- Detail-Oriented
- Enterprise Architecture Framework
- Enterprise IT Architecture
- Financial Systems
- Information Technology Strategies
- Intentional collaboration
- Managing performance
- Process Improvements
- Project Delivery
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full time
- Employee
- Permanent
- Hybrid role
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Lead
Benefits
- 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
- Flexible working opportunities (part-time, job share, compressed hours).
- Automatic enrollment into QBE pension plan with employer contributions of 10% of basic salary.
About the Company
- QBE is an international insurer and reinsurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries.
- We offer a diverse portfolio of commercial, personal and specialty products, as well as risk management solutions.
- Our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation.
- We are building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
- We employ a team of around 13,000 people in 26 countries around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.