SummaryAI Architect is a technical leader reporting to the Director, Enterprise App Engineering. This role defines and drives Guidewire's enterprise AI strategy - translating business objectives across GTM, Finance, HR, Legal, and Engineering into production-grade AI systems that deliver measurable impact. The architect owns end-to-end design across ingestion, orchestration, agent frameworks, security, compliance, and delivery.
The ideal candidate has led large, complex enterprise AI programs in production environments - not just proof-of-concepts. They bring equal fluency in LLM orchestration, full-stack AWS architecture, enterprise security and compliance, and the stakeholder management required to embed AI into how a global company operates.
Job DescriptionResponsibilities:- Define and own Guidewire's enterprise AI architecture vision - establishing technical direction, design standards, and reference implementations across all BizTech AI initiatives.
- Architect and lead delivery of production AI systems: multi-agent orchestration platforms, RAG and GraphRAG knowledge systems, LLM-powered workflows, and enterprise context graph initiatives spanning all Systems of Record.
- Own the full-stack AI architecture - from AWS infrastructure and data pipelines (Kafka, Iceberg, dbt, pgvector) through LLM gateway design, agent orchestration (LangGraph or equivalent), and user interfaces.
- Help define enterprise AI security and governance standards - covering IAM, ABAC policy enforcement, PII handling, prompt injection defence, hallucination detection, and audit trail design for SOX and GDPR compliance.
- Lead complex, multi-team AI programs end to end - from stakeholder alignment and architectural design through delivery, adoption, and measured business outcomes across concurrent initiatives.
- Help drive technology evaluation and build-vs-buy decisions across the AI tooling portfolio
- Partner with Data Governance, Security, Legal, and Compliance teams to embed AI responsibly across the organisation.
- Mentor senior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence, pragmatic innovation, and accountable delivery across the BizTech organization.
Required Skills and Experience:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- 12+ years in enterprise software architecture, with at least 2 years designing and delivering production AI/ML or LLM-based systems at scale.
- Proven track record leading large, complex enterprise AI programs - multi-year, multi-team initiatives with clear, measurable business outcomes.
- AWS expertise: Bedrock, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Kinesis, IAM, VPC. AWS Solutions.
- Full-stack AI fluency: event ingestion and streaming pipelines, vector and graph databases, LLM orchestration and agent frameworks, API design, and front-end delivery.
- Experience with AI observability and evaluation - trace instrumentation, eval frameworks, and production monitoring (Datadog LLM Observability, LangSmith, or equivalent).
- iPaaS and integration architecture experience - Workato, MuleSoft, or equivalent for enterprise SoR integration and event-driven automation.
- 5+ years of technical leadership - mentoring senior engineers, driving architecture strategy, and managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent communication and executive presence - able to present complex AI architecture decisions clearly to both engineering teams and senior business leadership.
- Demonstrated experience shipping Generative AI systems in production enterprise environments, with measurable impact on business outcomes.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000 - $198,000. 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.
