Guidewire Policy Center Sr Developer

Guidewire Policy Center Sr Developer

Posted 2 days ago by Infinity Quest

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London Area, United Kingdom
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Application Programming Interface (API) Automation Business Process Cloud Computing Cloud Technology Database Schema Data Feed Datamodel Data Modeling Exception Handling General Insurance Generic Programming Gosu (Programming Language) Guidewire Data Management Memory Management Nice (Unix Utility) Release Management Software Coding Software Development SonarQube Stakeholder Management Thought Leadership Underwriting User Story Web Services Workflows

Summary: The role of Guidewire PolicyCenter Sr Developer involves leading technical initiatives with a focus on Guidewire PolicyCenter, requiring over 10 years of recent experience. The position demands expertise in configuring PolicyCenter, integrating with external systems, and optimizing performance while adhering to best practices. Additionally, strong communication skills and a solid understanding of the insurance domain are essential for collaborating with various stakeholders and driving technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical initiatives and provide guidance on Guidewire PolicyCenter configurations and integrations.
  • Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues within PolicyCenter.
  • Collaborate with business analysts and other teams to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies.
  • Participate in solution discussions and contribute to continuous improvements and new features.
  • Review design documents and user story estimations, driving technical solution sessions.
  • Guide developers in leveraging out-of-the-box functionality and custom solutions.
  • Participate in defect triage meetings and provide technical inputs.

Key Skills:

  • 10+ years of experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter.
  • Strong understanding of PolicyCenter data model and business processes.
  • Hands-on experience with Gosu programming and Guidewire integration mechanisms.
  • Knowledge of database schema and performance optimization techniques.
  • Understanding of insurance domain concepts and testing automation.
  • Experience with release management and code deployment processes.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions and provide thought leadership.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London Area

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

JD for Guidewire PolicyCenter – Onsite Technical Lead 10+ years recent experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter

1. Core Guidewire Knowledge (PolicyCenter)

  • Strong understanding of PolicyCenter data model and business processes.
  • Hands-on experience with Gosu programming (inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling).
  • Deep knowledge of APD, Product Model, Job Lifecycle, and Policy Transactions (new business, renewal, endorsement, cancellation) and PMT tool
  • Expertise in Configuring PolicyCenter (typelists, entities, PCFs, workflows, rules engine).

2. Guidewire Integration Expertise

  • Experience with Guidewire Integration mechanisms (Messaging, Web Services, Plugins, Batch Processes).
  • Working knowledge of GX Model & Edge APIs.
  • Hands-on experience integrating with external systems using REST.
  • Understanding of event-driven processing (messaging triggers).

3. Database Knowledge

  • Experience working with Guidewire Data Model and database schema.
  • Support the creation a data feed from Guidewire PolicyCenter V10/V9 and Cloud (nice to have)

4. Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting

  • Ability to profile and debug PolicyCenter performance issues.
  • Understanding of caching strategies, efficient querying, and memory management.

5. Guidewire Best Practices

  • Knowledge of Guidewire coding standards & best practices for customization and maintainability.
  • Knowledge of SonarQube, Jacoca

6. Business Knowledge & Communication

  • Understanding of insurance domain concepts (policy lifecycle, underwriting, renewals).
  • Ability to understand requirements, collaborate with business analysts, and provide technical solutions.
  • Ability to work with PO, BA and other squad team to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies

7. Testing

  • Understanding of testing automation like GUnits and other as well

8. Release management

  • Understanding of Code build-deploy, environments (time travel, NFT), support release deployment and knows Sequence of events involved from Guidewire perspective

9. Thought leadership

  • Participate in solution discussion with Cognizant Guidewire CoE in proposal technical responses
  • Contributes towards continuous improvements and Guidewire new features
  • Knowledge and experience of handling Implementation, Upgrade, Migration projects
  • Worked on Guidewire Cloud platform (nice to have)

10. Development Lead

  • Review design document created by developers and signoff on design solution
  • Reviews User story estimations done by developers
  • Drives technical solution sessions for Sprint User stories from Configuration and Integration perspective
  • Analyses technical dependencies between various squads, captures and help resolve the technical issues
  • Provides inputs to PO to plan future sprint user stories
  • Guides developers in leveraging Out of box Guidewire functionality and any decisions on custom solutions
  • Peer review of developed code and provides approval on Pull request raised by developers
  • Works with Technical leaders to set technical guidelines and processes for the project
  • Participate and provide technical inputs/guidance in defect triage meetings
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