Guidewire Functional Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead functional analysis, requirements elicitation, and solution definition activities across Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, and related InsuranceSuite components.
• Own functional workstreams covering business requirements, user stories, process flows, functional specifications, product model impacts, rating or billing behavior, claims handling, workflows, business rules, and integration touchpoints.
• Provide senior-level functional expertise in Guidewire Center applications to ensure solutions align with business objectives, P&C insurance processes, Guidewire capabilities, and implementation best practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, configuration teams, integration teams, QA teams, and client stakeholders to clarify requirements, validate solution approaches, and support delivery execution.
• Prepare and maintain business requirement documents, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices, data mapping inputs, and implementation support notes.
• Ensure functional deliverables are clear, complete, testable, and aligned with client priorities, regulatory needs, operational processes, quality expectations, and enterprise delivery standards.
• Conduct requirement reviews, functional design walkthroughs, backlog refinement sessions, and solution validation discussions to improve clarity, reduce rework, and support delivery readiness.
• Mentor business analysts and functional consultants, provide guidance on Guidewire functional concepts, support estimation, and promote consistent documentation and requirement practices.
• Analyze and support resolution of functional issues, production defects, requirement gaps, process exceptions, data inconsistencies, and business rule conflicts across Guidewire applications.
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore teams to ensure timely clarification of requirements, dependency tracking, functional issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and alignment with client expectations.
• Monitor functional delivery progress, identify business risks and requirement dependencies, propose mitigation actions, and provide status updates to project leadership.

Qualifications

• Possess strong functional experience in one or more Guidewire core centers: PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, or BillingCenter, with exposure to Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation, enhancement, upgrade, cloud, or support programs.
• Demonstrate practical experience in business analysis and functional solutioning, including requirements gathering, user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, process mapping, product model understanding, workflows, business rules, data flows, and integration touchpoints.
• Have a strong understanding of Property & Casualty Insurance business processes across policy administration, underwriting, rating, billing, claims, servicing, renewals, endorsements, cancellations, and regulatory or operational workflows.
• Show excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify requirement gaps, validate business scenarios, support defect triage, and recommend practical functional solutions.
• Exhibit strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with experience working in distributed onsite-offshore and hybrid delivery models.
• Show proven experience leading functional workstreams, guiding business analysts, reviewing functional deliverables, supporting testing cycles, and enabling successful Guidewire releases.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information technology, insurance, engineering, or a related field.
• Required certifications: Guidewire Certified Professional.