Lead Consultant(Business Analyst) - GDC

Summary Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and
grow efficiently. Our Global Delivery Center (GDC) Professional Services team
partners with some of the world’s largest financial services and insurance
companies to deliver complex, business‐critical implementations. We are looking
for an experienced Lead consultant with strong P&C insurance integration
experience to work closely with our insurance clients, including Japanese
customers. In this role, you will partner with business and technical teams to
shape and deliver integration solutions, ensuring requirements are clearly
defined, traceable, and implemented to meet business objectives. Japanese
language proficiency (JLPT N1 or N2) is required, along with strong stakeholder
management and documentation skills. Job Description Key Responsibilities •
Partner with insurance clients to gather, analyze, and document business and
system requirements related to Guidewire product integrations. • Translate
business needs into functional specifications for technical teams working on
Integration Gateway, App Events, Cloud API, Event Messaging, Batch Processes,
and REST APIs. • Act as a bridge between business and development teams to
support solution design, testing, and deployment of integration solutions. •
Conduct workshops, interviews, and user story sessions to identify pain points,
current workflows, and process gaps. • Validate solution scope, assist in effort
estimation, and support backlog grooming and prioritization in Agile/Scrum
environments. • Collaborate with UX, QA, architects, and SI partners to ensure
solutions align with both technical feasibility and business value. • Prepare
and deliver functional documents, demo scripts, and stakeholder updates,
ensuring clarity and traceability of requirements. • Provide input on solution
design decisions and verify that business requirements are met through effective
implementation and testing. •At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity,
innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously
leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity
and outcomes. Required Skills & Experience • 8–12 years of experience as a
Business Analyst in the P&C insurance space, with a focus on digital and/or
integration projects. • Strong understanding of the P&C InsuranceSuite and its
core capabilities. • Familiarity with integration technologies, including: •
Integration Gateway • App Events • Cloud API • REST APIs • Event Messaging •
Batch Processing • Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N1 or N2) is required. •
Experience handling Japanese clients is required, including day‐to‐day
interactions, requirement discussions, and expectation management. • Strong
problem‐solving, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. • Comfortable
working across cross‐functional teams and global time zones, with shift
flexibility as needed. • Experience in Agile/Scrum environments, including user
story creation, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability. • Bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science or equivalent 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. We’re an extraordinary
blend of hungry self-starters, intrepid explorers, brainy experts, and loyal
allies. Combine all of this, and we make a glorious success story, loaded with
down-to-earth, helpful, and passionate people, all on the journey of cloud
innovation and best in class technology. Guidewire’s an adventure—and it’s yours
for the taking. At Guidewire, we are utterly committed to customer success. We
combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud
service to the P&C Insurance industry. And with the largest R&D team, services
team, and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continually evolve and innovate
to meet our customers’ needs. We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and
Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness that our people
never want to lose. And we each bring a little quirkiness—and a little genius—to
the table. As the landscape of our industry continues to shift, we respond with
flexibility and skill. We’re braving uncharted territory, pushing past the
conventional with our products, partners, and people.