Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer
Posted Today by Initialize
£90 Per hour
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer role involves extensive expertise in Guidewire PolicyCenter, focusing on configuration, integration, and performance optimization. The position requires strong programming skills in Gosu and a solid understanding of the insurance domain. The developer will lead technical discussions, review design documents, and guide team members in implementing solutions. This hybrid position is based in London and is for a duration of 6 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and configure Guidewire PolicyCenter, including typelists, entities, PCFs, workflows, and rules engine.
- Integrate Guidewire with external systems using REST and other integration mechanisms.
- Profile and debug PolicyCenter performance issues, implementing caching strategies and efficient querying.
- Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to clarify requirements and provide technical solutions.
- 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 Guidewire functionality and custom solutions.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and provide technical inputs and guidance.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter and its data model.
- Strong programming skills in Gosu, with knowledge of inheritance, polymorphism, and exception handling.
- Experience with Guidewire integration mechanisms, including Messaging and Web Services.
- Knowledge of Guidewire coding standards, best practices, and testing automation.
- Understanding of the insurance domain, particularly policy life cycle and underwriting.
- Ability to profile and debug performance issues and implement optimization strategies.
- Experience with release management and deployment processes.
- Knowledge of Guidewire Cloud platform is a plus.
Salary (Rate): £90.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
description: Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer - London/hybrid - 6 months - £500 - 728 Skills/experience Extensive 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 life cycle, 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 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