Guidewire Developer

Summary: The Guidewire Developer role is a fully remote position focused on providing technical support for PolicyCenter functions and integrations. The developer will be responsible for delivering quality results, resolving complex technical issues, and leading projects across technical disciplines. The position requires extensive experience with the Guidewire Insurance Suite and a strong technical background in various programming languages and frameworks. The role emphasizes collaboration with internal and external customers to optimize application technologies and improve project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides technical support for multiple PolicyCenter functions and integrations.
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
• Delivers quality and timely results.
• Owns and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes.
• Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and end to end test coverage.
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures.
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Ensure reviews for quality (accurate and complete) of application software designs are scheduled and conducted to ensure optimal use of software systems.
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
• Leads projects across technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
• Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IT projects teams for multiple scopes.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect s implementation.
• Implement and support proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
• Develops and obtains sign offs on technical specs, design documents, functional designs and requirements.
• Guide teams on long term solutions for resolving frequently occurring production problems and reducing defect leakage.
• Ensure code is being developed per standards with focus on maintainability and ensure unit test cases are being developed, documented and executed with the test results recorded. Ensure that the technical design presented by the architects is followed by the software development staff.
• Ensure batch cycles are being executed according to plan and that defects are resolved in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Lead team in successful completion of phase gates for projects.

Key Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience, bachelor's degree, equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• Minimum of 5 years extensive experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite, including at least 3 recent years of ongoing PolicyCenter experience.
• P&C Non-Standard Auto Insurance experience preferred.
• Experience in technical disciplines such as Java/Spring, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Angular, Hibernate, SQL, JSON/XML, REST Web Services, Git/SVN, Jenkins, Oracle & SQL.
• Advanced certifications for coding/development. Current Guidewire Certified Ace preferred.
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills. Advanced knowledge of a gosu and a good knowledge of related languages.
• The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation, development, and support projects; Advanced knowledge of program design methods and techniques and standard development tools.
• Use knowledge of new frameworks, tools and languages and make recommendations in applications as appropriate.
• Ability to understand and identify improvement areas in architecture and integration designs.
• Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals.
• Demonstrates excellent leadership qualities in managing the work of a team of professional employees.
• Experience with cloud development practices.
• Able to follow and create best practice development standards.
• Worked with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall).
• Able to translate business to technical requirements.
• Requires minimal managerial direction.
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT