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.