Technical Architect
Guidewire SoftwareResponsibilities
- Communicate with Japanese customers in Japanese to understand system integration needs and align technical solutions with business requirements.
- Build relationships with customer infrastructure teams and system integrators to coordinate integration solutions.
- Design and develop system integrations using Guidewire’s Integration Framework.
- Manage data flows between Guidewire applications and external systems while ensuring data integrity.
- Create integration design documents and technical specifications.
- Conduct proof-of-concept activities to validate integration approaches and demonstrate feasibility.
- Design, test, configure, and deploy integrated software systems.
- Collaborate with Guidewire global teams to share technical insights and align integration strategies.
- Represent Guidewire with customers and communicate product strengths and weaknesses to product management.
Requirements
- JLPT 1-level Japanese proficiency, understanding of Japan’s business environment, and relationship-building skills.
- English fluency demonstrated by the stated TOEIC range or equivalent qualification, or by passing a language assessment.
- More than 7 years of combined software development and consulting experience, with at least 3 years in each area.
- Extensive Agile development experience.
- Experience with advanced web applications.
- At least 2 years of object-oriented programming experience, such as Java or C#.
- At least 2 years of relational database and cloud platform experience, including AWS or GCP.
- Ability to lead discussions, manage customer situations, and deliver technical solutions from design through deployment.
- Strong communication, leadership, organizational, customer service, and independent-working skills.
- Ability to apply AI and data-driven insights to improve innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
- Preferred experience with Japanese non-life insurance, systems analysis or consulting, and Guidewire product design, configuration, and testing.
- Preferred experience with web service APIs, REST, JSON-RPC, SOAP, message queues, enterprise integration middleware, microservice architecture, software or network security, Git, TeamCity, and Datadog.
Benefits
- The role is primarily based in Japan and involves approximately half on-site work with customers and half remote work.
- There may be opportunities to work remotely with teams in other regions where Guidewire operates.
- Projects typically last from three months to two years depending on customer requirements.
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About Guidewire Software
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 570 insurers in 43 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, rely on Guidewire products. With core systems leveraging data and analytics, digital, and artificial intelligence, Guidewire defines cloud platform excellence for P&C insurers. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation record, with 1,700+ successful projects supported by the industry’s largest R&D team and SI partner ecosystem. Our marketplace represents the largest partner community in P&C, where customers can access hundreds of applications to accelerate integration, localization, and innovation. For more information, please visit https://www.guidewire.com/.