VP, Global Practices
Pubblicato il 15-09-2026 - Guidewire Software in Milano
Summary
The VP, Global Practices leads the technical and methodological backbone of Guidewire Professional Services. This leader owns the global capability, technical standards, and innovation agenda across five practices — InsuranceSuite & INOW, Data, Digital, Tech & Integration, and Business Consulting — and is accountable for ensuring Guidewire-led implementations and SI partner-led programs are delivered to the highest technical bar in the industry.
Job Description
What you’ll do
Strategic Accountabilities
Technical Methodology and Standards
- Own deployment of global technical methodology — architecture standards, integration patterns, product-specific implementation methods, design patterns, and code standards — for every Guidewire product implemented through PS.
- Maintain practice IP (toolkits, accelerators, reference architectures) in partnership with Services Product and Portfolio team, and ensure it is versioned, governed, and accessible to regions, GDC, and SI partners globally.
- Set the engineering rigor expected of every implementation, every region,
and every partner; establish the quality bar and the enforcement mechanisms that hold to it.
- Partner with Delivery Assurance & Global PMO on integration into the end-to-end PS delivery standard, and with Global Delivery on operationalizing technical methodology into GDC and productized services.
Innovation and Practice Evolution
- Set the multi-year vision for how each of the five practices evolves to support new products (Pricing & Rating, Underwriting, Industry Intelligence), new delivery models, and AI-accelerated implementation.
- Lead the integration of AI methods and tools into technical practice methodology — AI-accelerated prototyping, document ingestion, intelligent automation, code-gen, and agentic workflows — in partnership with the PS AI CoE.
- Partner with Product, Platform, and AI engineering to ensure practice capability stays ahead of product roadmap commitments — and that Guidewir