Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Onsite
Management Level
Senior ManagerJob Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.
We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.
We are expanding our Guidewire & InsureTech capabilities across Africa and EMEA. You’ll lead architecture on complex insurance transformations, collaborate with global teams, and apply PwC architecture and security standards to deliver resilient, compliant platforms that stay compatible with Guidewire Cloud’s release cadence. As an Insurance Tech Solution Architect (Senior Manager), you will be the design authority for one or more streams (e.g., Claims & Documents; PAS & Integrations), ensuring business outcomes through secure, scalable, and upgrade‑friendly designs across Guidewire InsuranceSuite Cloud and the wider ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
Discover & Shape: Assess current systems and establish the target architecture for Guidewire Cloud applications (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter), emphasizing configuration-first approaches and steering towards Out-of-the-Box adoption using certified Cloud APIs.
Elaborate & Design: Develop comprehensive solution designs and engineer non-functional requirements focusing on performance and scalability. Define robust integration architecture and API governance for various channels and financial feeds.
Build & Validate: Ensure alignment with architecture by enforcing OOTB standards and setting criteria for performance and security testing. Shape environment and release strategies in line with Guidewire Cloud governance.
Cutover & Run: Architect system transition plans and ensure operational readiness through monitoring and alerting. Govern post-go-live changes to maintain system upgradeability with standard controls.
Requirements:
Experience & Track Record
10+ years in software/solution architecture, with 5+ years leading core platform transformations in General Insurance (P&C).
Proven end-to-end architecture ownership across data, integrations, security, and non-functional requirements, delivered in agile or Scaled Agile environments.
Highly desirable: Experience architecting on Guidewire Cloud (InsuranceSuite 2024+), including Cloud APIs, REST clients, Integration Gateway, and App Events.
Alternatively, substantial experience designing and integrating General Insurance ecosystems, covering:
Core insurance platforms (policy, billing, claims)
Digital UX and customer engagement
Data architecture and analytics
Integration with enterprise systems and external platforms
Technical skills:
API/Integration: REST/JSON, XML, messaging/eventing; API gateways; OAuth2/OIDC; reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, circuit breakers).
Data: migration strategies, reconciliation rules, lineage/quality and dataprivacy controls.
Tooling: Git, Azure DevOps/Jira; CI/CD pipelines; environment/release governance; observability (logs, metrics, traces).
Leadership & collaboration:
Lead multi‑disciplinary squads and RACI‑based governance across Product Owners, Dev/Test Leads, Security and Ops.
Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and decision facilitation skills.
Education & certifications:
Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.
Desirable: Guidewire Cloud credentials (InsuranceSuite Cloud Integration / REST API Client / App Events), Azure/AWS cloud certs.
What is nice to have:
Experience with OOTB adoption and backlog orchestration across PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter.
Exposure to ecosystem designs (documents/print‑mail, digital channels, CRM, finance/controlling feeds).
Travel Requirements
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Job Posting End Date
June 5, 2026Want to know if this job is worth applying to?