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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to provide architecture leadership across our core Guidewire platforms, helping shape the future of Retail Technology through large-scale transformation, cloud adoption, and business-led innovation. You will lead solution architecture across strategic Guidewire initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of IAG's PolicyCenter and BillingCenter platforms, supporting major transformation, integration, migration, and cloud modernisation programs.
Responsibilities
- Provide architecture leadership across Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter programs, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and future-ready solution designs.
- Lead architecture design for complex integration, migration, cloud transformation, and platform modernisation initiatives.
- Partner with delivery teams to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions and architectural roadmaps.
- Support architecture governance, design reviews, decision-making forums, and risk management activities.
- Drive the adoption of reusable architecture patterns, standards, and best practices across the Retail Technology ecosystem.
- Influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to initiatives focused on underwriting improvements, and data capabilities.
- Influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to the evolution of IAG’s Guidewire platforms, insurance capabilities and broader Retail Technology ecosystem as well as AI-enabled solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years' hands-on Guidewire experience across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter gained through engineering, technical leadership or implementation architecture roles.
- Deep knowledge of Guidewire configuration, product models, data models, integration patterns and platform architecture.
- Experience working within complex multi-brand or shared Guidewire environments, balancing governance, releases and competing priorities.
- Strong experience with BillingCenter payment integrations and PCI DSS considerations.
- Proven ability to design scalable, resilient Guidewire integrations using APIs, messaging, events and batch processing.
- Strong understanding of solution architecture, including architecture trade-offs, integration patterns, non-functional requirements and risk management.
- Experience integrating insurance platforms with cloud, digital and enterprise technology ecosystems.
- Ability to align solution designs with enterprise architecture, platform strategies and business objectives.
- Proven capability managing architectural risk, technical debt and solution quality.
- Ability to review code, configuration and technical designs, identify risks and provide guidance to engineering teams and delivery partners.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams.
Skills
- Guidewire PolicyCenter
- Guidewire BillingCenter
- Guidewire configuration
- Guidewire product models
- Guidewire data models
- Guidewire integration patterns
- Guidewire platform architecture
- BillingCenter payment integrations
- PCI DSS
- APIs
- Messaging
- Events
- Batch processing
- Cloud integration
- Digital integration
- Enterprise technology integration
- Architecture governance
- Risk management
- Technical debt management
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
Location
- Gadigal Country (Darling Park 2, Sydney)
- Naarm (Melbourne)
- Meanjin (Brisbane)
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Principal
Education Level
- Current Guidewire certification
- Guidewire Certified Ace accreditation highly regarded
Benefits
- Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard
- 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave
- Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex
- Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
- Partner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more
- Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave
- Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities
About the Company
- IAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand.
- Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.
- As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected.
- We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities.
- We collaborate on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.