Sr Architect

Senior Architect

Title: Sr Architect
Location: Worcester, MA | Hybrid 2-3 days onsite. 
Duration: 12+ Months Contract | Possibility of extension | W2 Only
Pay Rate Range: $60-80 /hr 

 
Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 
• Minimum of 10 years in the industry with at least 5 years as a Senior Solution Architect with increasing development responsibility. 
• Exposure to multiple, diverse business systems, technologies, and processing environments. 
• Solution design and development experience. 
• Specific experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite Policy Center application. 
• Experience with GW PC cloud migration, data integration, APIs, MFA, SSO, and performance tuning. 
• Insurance Industry & Product Knowledge: 
• Broad understanding of Property/Casualty systems & applications. 
• Understanding of how changes/updates affect not only the specific domain but also other systems in the assigned business unit.

Key Measures of Success: 

• Delivering technical design and approach. 

• Providing position statements and solution patterns. 

• Measurable roadmaps with clear milestones

Required Skills & Competencies and Experience/Skills

At an expert level, uses core solution architecture skills: 

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. 

• Excellent planning, facilitation, and organizational skills. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations. 

• Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements. 

• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives. 

• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems. 

• Knowledge of key aspects of client’s business. 

• Expert knowledge of information principles and policies. 

• Understanding of application development methodologies.

• Understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems. 

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies. 

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