Technical Program Manager - Cloud Data Platform

Are you passionate about organizing and managing complex technical projects? Do you have prior experience in driving project deliverables for SaaS services in the public cloud? Come join our Data platform and Analytics team. This team owns, builds, and operates Guidewire’s cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS offerings. Guidewire’s data platform is targeted to be best-in-class in enabling our customers with mission-critical insights and decision-making capabilities. The platform is designed to support all of our analytics, data science, and data applications. You will work in a highly collaborative environment building next-generation platforms and services.

What you would do

• You will be responsible to drive and coordinate major platform and cloud service initiatives with the highest degree of complexity. You will spend a significant proportion of your time developing the capabilities of the team as a whole. Responsibilities include collection of business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch.
• Lead the functional and technical delivery of key initiatives within the team, organization, and across other functional areas.
• Work closely with development, product management, other engineering teams and operations to design, scope, and oversee features.
• Develop functional specifications, project/release plans, and roadmaps.
• Lead complex and large-scale cross-team, cross-functional strategic initiatives partnering with engineering managers and engineers to estimate work efforts, define priorities, and run resources
• Pro-actively tracks issues, risks, and project dependencies to ensure they are elevated to the team for timely mitigation and resolution
• Influence peers and managers, building consensus amidst ambiguity.
• Manage expectations, track deliverables, and present reports to leadership.
• Guide and manage the use of agile methodologies to streamline project delivery.
• Manage product security vulnerability program

What you would need to succeed

• 5-8 years of required work experience with 3+ years as Technical Program Manager
• Demonstrable experience with agile software development methodologies and productivity tools

• Strong communication skills to interact with stakeholders, gather requirements, and provide updates. 
• Strong Skills in creating project plans, timelines, and milestones.
• Interpersonal skills to build relationships, and collaborate with diverse cross-functional teams 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Technical knowledge of micro services, distributed systems, AWS, Java, C++(Good to have)
• Experience using business applications and integrations such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Aha, Excel, PPT and scheduling meetings with attendees spanning many time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or a related field

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. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

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