Job Description

Candidates must be capable of written and oral business level Japanese and English.

As a technology specialist, you will be working closely with our Product and Services teams to understand our offerings, with the Sales team to communicate those offerings to prospective customers, and most importantly with our prospects and customers to help them find solutions to their most ambitious business imperatives.

You will excel in understanding a variety of technical and business process challenges, leading technical discussions with internal and prospective customer teams, and presenting complex solution demonstrations. The position requires a unique blend of business process, listening, technical design, and communication skills.

Key Activities for the Technical Solution Consultant include:

• Help articulate cloud visions and SaaS offerings to new and existing clients

• Responding in writing to questions and requests for information from analysts and prospects

• Identifying new platform requirements and working with Product Management to design solutions for those requirements

• Working closely with the Solution Engineering team and the Japan Regional Development team to build new local content and solutions

• Partnering with the Guidewire Functional Solution Consultants for application configuration for detailed product demonstrations. (eg: (e.g: digital experiences, integrations to solution partners, workflows and other cloud services).

• Support Alliance team during discovery and POC stages of onboarding solution partners for Japan Market.

• Leading formal and informal architecture discussions

• Supporting the sales team as an expert on the technical and integration aspects of Guidewire solutions throughout the sales cycle:

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong verbal and presentation skills

• Familiarity with cloud computing and SaaS industry trends

• Processes and tools in the software development lifecycle (source control, build systems, testing)

• Integration mechanisms and patterns

• Database systems and concepts

• Proficiency in Java and other modern programming languages

• Effective and competent writing skills

• Fluent in Japanese (spoken and written)

• Strong English language skills (for internal communication)

• Curiosity and passion to learn

Helpful Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience with modern P&C insurance systems

• Modern JavaScript web toolkits and development

• Authentication and Authorization concepts

• Kubernetes and related technologies

• AWS technical ecosystem

• Java enterprise technologies

• RESTful architecture and development

• Experience in Technical Pre-Sales