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About the Role

The Business Architect plays a pivotal role in aligning strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organization, capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives. This role requires an understanding of the business’s operational and strategic direction and the ability to communicate it effectively to a wide variety of audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Demonstrate how key end-to-end scenarios bring the strategy to life, identifying value drivers and the impact on outcomes.
• Engage with stakeholders across business units and IT, facilitating discussions and negotiations to drive optimal outcomes.
• Continuously monitor the business architecture to ensure it supports business needs and adapts to organizational changes.
• Accurately assess client and business needs to provide actionable improvements for business models.
• Assess the impact of strategic plans on capability levels after implementing changes.
• Assess current capabilities and strategies, then build a future-state view.
• Communicate with business leaders to help them understand changes.
• Consult with insurance carrier business and technical resources to produce business requirements and business process documents as a functional resource.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure necessary buy-in.
• Propose and deliver the value of Guidewire Cloud Platform with Guidewire Customer Success and Sales functions.
• Seek customers’ Success Plans through program lifecycle.

Requirements

• Native or equivalent Japanese language skills for local stakeholder communication, including customer C-level executives.
• Sufficient English language skill to communicate with colleagues and leadership globally.
• Ability to solve complex problems analytically, communicate effectively, and research solutions.
• Ability to collaborate with domain specialists.
• Critical thinking ability to identify problems, recognize causes, and suggest solutions.
• Deep understanding of the local P&C insurance industry, regulations, and market trends, with a focus on customer-facing operations and processes.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in business leadership and operational roles.
• Ability to inspire and motivate others, lead from the front, and drive a culture of accountability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to shape decision-making without direct authority, influencing all organizational levels.
• Ability to understand and solve complex problems, turning insights into actions.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with peers and stakeholders, promoting a cooperative working environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapt to change, and manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to connect the dots between the organization’s strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
• Effectively present and explain the business architecture to diverse audience groups.
• Ability to identify when business requirements are not in scope.
• Consulting & Leadership Skills along with deep industry knowledge of the P&C insurance industry with a focus on policy, claims and/or underwriting.
• Experience with software implementation project(s) in requirements gathering, functional specifications, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience in software package implementation through customization or configuration using agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with object-oriented design principles and databases.
• Experience in applying change management concepts on a software implementation project.
• Exceptional documentation skills.
• Ability to facilitate discussions with both technical and business stakeholders, including C-level executives.

Skills

• Business Architecture Strategy
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Business Needs Assessment
• Future-State Visioning
• Business Requirements Documentation
• Business Process Documentation
• Guidewire Cloud Platform Value Proposition
• Japanese Language Proficiency
• English Language Proficiency
• Analytical Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Solution Research
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• P&C Insurance Industry Knowledge
• Leadership
• Influencing
• Adaptability
• Strategic Thinking
• Presentation Skills
• Change Management
• Documentation
• Facilitation

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Minimum of 5-7 years experience in business leadership and operational roles

About the Company

• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.