Senior Guidewire Developer - ClaimCenter
Location: Remote (Travel up to 25% to Edison, NJ & NY)
Experience: 12 to 15+ Years
Industry: Insurance
Key Skills:
Guidewire ClaimCenter (Configuration & Integration)
Gosu, PCF, XML, Java & SQL
Guidewire Cloud Platform
REST APIs, Batch Processing & Event Messaging
P&C Insurance Domain
CI/CD, Git & Bitbucket
Guidewire Certification
Looking for experienced Senior Guidewire Developers with strong technical leadership and hands-on Guidewire Cloud experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead the design, development and unit testing of solutions using Guidewire application tools for Cloud implementation.
Provide technical leadership for Guidewire ClaimCenter Configuration and/or Integration development teams.
Manage scope, estimate work, build plans and schedules, track and deliver to plan.
Mentor and guide junior Guidewire developers on best practices and technical standards.
Serve as escalation point for complex technical issues and troubleshooting.
Clearly communicate and work with onsite/offshore teams and vendors as required to deliver effectively and plan for the implementation of user stories.
Propose integration solutions and estimate integration effort required for user story requirements.
Lead interactions with other internal teams (including client business, client IT, vendor, onshore and offshore) to complete project activities.
Architect and develop integration solutions including Batch Processes, Message Queues and Event Messaging.
Establish and execute traceable unit and integration tests (automated as to be agreed).
Execute the development & ensure successful completion of assigned user stories for each sprint.
Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards and department policies.
Experience in Guidewire Ski upgrades.
Ensure that proper branching methodologies are implemented for flexibility and agility with delivery supporting multiple development tracks.
Lead collaboration with Business, Product, Operations and Testing teams in testing Claims applications to meet business and IT defined quality metrics, and functional and non-functional KPIs.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree required.
Minimum 10 years in IT field with 7 years within Guidewire Claims Center in Integration / Configuration Development roles required.
Minimum 6 years of experience in Property & Casualty insurance domain required.
Minimum 2 years of expertise in Guidewire APIs, Integration views and Product Models required.
Minimum 1 year experience with Guidewire Cloud Platform.
Minimum 5 years of experience with tools like Jira, Git, Bitbucket etc. required.
Knowledge of Guidewire integration concept: Restful, Batch Processing, Message Queues and Event Processing required.
Experience with DevSecOps and establishing and managing CI/CD pipelines for Claims build / deployments.
2+ years of experience mentoring or leading development teams preferred.
Guidewire Claims Center Certification is highly preferred.
