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We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.\nIf you're a senior Guidewire architect with deep PolicyCenter and BillingCenter expertise and a passion for shaping complex technology solutions, we'd love to hear from you.\nWe're seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to provide architecture leadership across our core Guidewire platforms, helping shape the future of Retail Technology through large-scale transformation, cloud adoption, and business-led innovation.\nAs aPrincipal Solution Architect - Guidewire, you will lead solution architecture across strategic Guidewire initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. 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This is a permanent full-time role based in Gadigal Country (Darling Park 2, Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) or Meanjin (Brisbane).\nWhat You'll Do\nProvide architecture leadership across Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter programs, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and future-ready solution designs.\nLead architecture design for complex integration, migration, cloud transformation, and platform modernisation initiatives.\nPartner with delivery teams to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions and architectural roadmaps.\nSupport architecture governance, design reviews, decision-making forums, and risk management activities.\nDrive the adoption of reusable architecture patterns, standards, and best practices across the Retail Technology ecosystem.\nInfluence strategic technology decisions and contribute to initiatives focused on underwriting improvements, and data capabilities.\nInfluence strategic technology decisions and contribute to the evolution of IAG’s Guidewire platforms, insurance capabilities and broader Retail Technology ecosystem as well as AI-enabled solutions.\nWhat You'll Bring\nGuidewire Expertise\n10+ years' hands-on Guidewire experience across PolicyCenter and BillingCenter gained through engineering, technical leadership or implementation architecture roles.\nDeep knowledge of Guidewire configuration, product models, data models, integration patterns and platform architecture.\nExperience working within complex multi-brand or shared Guidewire environments, balancing governance, releases and competing priorities.\nStrong experience with BillingCenter payment integrations and PCI DSS considerations.\nCurrent Guidewire certification, with Guidewire Certified Ace accreditation highly regarded.\nSolution Architecture & Integration\nProven ability to design scalable, resilient Guidewire integrations using APIs, messaging, events and batch processing.\nStrong understanding of solution architecture, including architecture trade-offs, integration patterns, non-functional requirements and risk management.\nExperience integrating insurance platforms with cloud, digital and enterprise technology ecosystems.\nAbility to align solution designs with enterprise architecture, platform strategies and business objectives.\nProven capability managing architectural risk, technical debt and solution quality.\nTechnical Leadership & Stakeholder Influence\nAbility to review code, configuration and technical designs, identify risks and provide guidance to engineering teams and delivery partners.\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams.\n What We Offer\nBoosted superannuation with 13% as standard.\n20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for what’s important to you).\nWork from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.\nUp to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.\nPartner discounts on private health insurance, tech & appliances, and many more.\nIndustry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave.\nAccess to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities.\n*employment type eligibility criteria apply\nApplications close: Sunday 8 November 2026 11:59PM AEDT\n\nAdjustments and Support\nIf you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to  for a confidential conversation.\n\nMore About Us \nAs part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. 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