Technical Solution Consultant, Japan

Summary

Ready for a new challenge?
Guidewire is seeking a motivated and experienced technical candidate to join a Silicon Valley winner in the insurance industry and help power our second phase of growth.

Our customers are insurance companies, and insurance software is surprisingly complex, critical to the business, and difficult to get right. We provide a platform based on three elements: core processing, data and analytics, and digital engagement, which work together to strengthen insurers’ ability to engage and empower their customers, agents, and employees.
Qualified candidates are technical experts and great communicators who would like to solve customer problems through technology.

Candidates must be capable of written and oral business level Japanese and English.

Job Description

As a technology specialist, you will be working closely with our Product and Services teams to understand our offerings, with the Sales team to communicate those offerings to prospective customers, and most importantly with our prospects and customers to help them find solutions to their most ambitious business imperatives.

You will excel in understanding a variety of technical and business process challenges, leading technical discussions with internal and prospective customer teams, and presenting complex solution demonstrations. The position requires a unique blend of business process, listening, technical design, and communication skills.

Key Activities for the Technical Solution Consultant include:

• Help articulate cloud visions and SaaS offerings to new and existing clients

• Responding in writing to questions and requests for information from analysts and prospects

• Identifying new platform requirements and working with Product Management to design solutions for those requirements

• Working closely with the Solution Engineering team and the Japan Regional Development team to build new local content and solutions 

• Partnering with the Guidewire Functional Solution Consultants for application configuration for detailed product demonstrations. (eg: (e.g: digital experiences, integrations to solution partners, workflows and other cloud services).

• Support Alliance team during discovery and POC stages of onboarding solution partners for Japan Market.

• Leading formal and informal architecture discussions

• Supporting the sales team as an expert on the technical and integration aspects of Guidewire solutions throughout the sales cycle:

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong verbal and presentation skills

• Familiarity with cloud computing and SaaS industry trends

• Processes and tools in the software development lifecycle (source control, build systems, testing)

• Integration mechanisms and patterns

• Database systems and concepts

• Proficiency in Java and other modern programming languages

• Effective and competent writing skills

• Fluent in Japanese (spoken and written)

• Strong English language skills (for internal communication)

• Curiosity and passion to learn

Helpful Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience with modern P&C insurance systems

• Modern JavaScript web toolkits and development

• Authentication and Authorization concepts

• Kubernetes and related technologies

• AWS technical ecosystem

• Java enterprise technologies

• RESTful architecture and development

• Experience in Technical Pre-Sales

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.