Business Architect - Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)

Summary

Organization: Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev)
This team will operate as a dedicated strategic function within Professional Services, working closely with Product Development, Sales, and Customer Success. Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of industry-wide solutions through strategic co-development partnerships with key customers. This initiative will establish a SWAT team within Professional Services to identify, cultivate, and operationalize these partnerships, demonstrating Guidewire Professional Services’ unique value proposition and capturing premium service opportunities.
Role Overview
As a Business Architect, you’ll be a senior domain leader who ensures that customer needs, industry practices, and InnoCoDev solutions remain tightly aligned. You’ll define and scale business frameworks that guide co-development projects across multiple customers and markets.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements definition and validation for co-development initiatives.

• Shape reusable business frameworks and solution patterns across multiple accounts.

• Act as the bridge between industry knowledge and solution design.

• Influence product direction by bringing continuous market insights into Guidewire development.

• Mentor Business Analysts, helping them grow into versatile consultants.

• Represent InnoCoDev externally as a thought partner to customers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in P&C insurance operations, systems, or transformation.

• Strong track record of business architecture, process design, or consulting.

• Demonstrated ability to lead workshops with executives and shape customer decisions.

• Recognized as a trusted advisor with deep industry expertise.

Culture Fit

• Consulting versatility, communication skills, and industry empathy.

• Ownership mindset: delivery, quality, cost, scope, timeline.

• Cultural fit with InnoCoDev: empowerment, accountability, transparency, agility, risk-taking.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $186,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

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.

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.