Guidewire Director

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead Core Insurance Platform Strategy, Delivery and Operations
• Provides strategic and operational leadership for application development, delivery, support, and modernization across Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, Billing, Financial Systems (PeopleSoft), and Document Management platforms.
• Provides leadership oversight for major platform transformation efforts, including modernization planning, execution readiness, and adoption.
• Stays abreast of industry trends to establish technology strategies and product roadmaps that align platform investments with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture direction.
• Champions modern software engineering practices, including Agile delivery, DevOps, automation, quality engineering, cloud-native design, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures operational excellence through effective production support, incident management, disaster recovery, availability management, and technology lifecycle planning.
• Manages technology vendors, service providers, department financial performance, resource forecasting, and optimization of technology investments.
• Identifies opportunities to leverage automation, artificial intelligence, cloud capabilities, and emerging technologies where they create meaningful business value and operational efficiency.

Lead and Develop High-Performing Teams

• Establishes a clear vision and strategic direction for the department aligned with enterprise goals.
• Buils, develops, and retains high-performing leaders, managers, and technical professionals through coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
• Creates a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and adaptability through periods of change.
• Oversees workforce planning, organizational design, budgeting, recruiting, and resource management to support current and future business needs.

Technology and Business Partnership Leadership

• Serves as the primary technology partner for assigned business areas, helping shape strategy, influence investment decisions, and ensure technology capabilities support enterprise goals.
• Participates in enterprise planning, governance, portfolio management, and business case development for major technology investments.
• Collaborates with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Digital teams to deliver integrated technology solutions.
• Leads and sponsors complex, cross-functional initiatives with organization-wide impact.