About the position
The Guidewire Software Engineer III is responsible for collaborating with Agile Program Manager (APM), Digital Product Manager (DPM), and Business Analysts in translating requirements into technical design and solutions in Guidewire that are consistent and inline with the overall technical strategy of Arch, code and deployment efficiency, and engineering best practices. The incumbent will be an experienced, dynamic, solution-focused professional who is technology savvy, and focused on Guidewire implementation including integrations and data that will realize business goals. This position is preferably a hybrid role, requiring presence in our Raleigh or Jersey City office two days per week. The remaining workdays may be performed remotely. However, we are also accepting Remote applicants as long as they are able to work Eastern Time. This can be subject to change based on business needs.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a Guidewire Insurance Suite Technical Expert.
- Accountable to prepare solution design within Guidewire cloud insurance suite including integrations with external applications with clear pros and cons.
- Ability to provide guidance to data team leveraging his GW data model knowledge.
- In-depth knowledge in coding standards, review process, branching and merging strategies, DevOps, and Guidewire best practices.
- Conduct peer code reviews to ensure base features are optimized in adherence to Guidewire best practices (for seamless upgrades) and Arch internal guidelines.
- Have an 'enterprise perspective' and closely collaborate with fellow GW engineers and security personnel to ensure and influence cohesive/efficient solutions meet enterprise direction.
- Ensure all the compliance requirements are met from technical standpoint for GW platform.
- Recommend technical solutions to ensure the GW platform is performing optimally and is futureproofed from time to time.
- Drive tech debt reduction, application/platform security, and compliance awareness.
- Ensure technical/architecture documentation for the Guidewire suite for implementation is up to date and complete in compliance with enterprise standards.
- Liaison with tech leads and infra team to ensure the technical environment is made available for the team.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of experience in Guidewire ClaimsCenter and/or PolicyCenter and/or BillingCenter.
- Must be Guidewire Certified.
- Experience in more than two centers is a plus.
- Expert knowledge of Guidewire Cloud Insurancesuite platform.
- Minimum 5 years of experience commercial P&C insurance industry.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Underwriting and Billing Workflows for US based P&C Insurance Carriers.
- Understanding of product lifecycle development.
- Strong Configuration AND Integration skills across policy, billing and claims centers.
- Desired areas of technical/functional expertise include GOSU, PCF, XML, Product Model, GW data model, integrations not limiting to Ghostdraft, Imageright integration and OOTB.
- Strong understanding of the Guidewire platform (UI, Data Model, Studio, etc.).
- Strong JAVA, J2EE, JMS, JDBC OR C#, .NET experience.
- Strong experience working knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Sound knowledge of modern software architectures, design patterns and development techniques.
- Application including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, modeling, prototyping, functional design, estimating and testing.
- Knowledge in at least one Software Configuration Management tool like SVN, CVS, etc.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience in resolving issues with Integration with other vendor products.
- Experience in CI/CD, branching and merging strategies, DevOps, monitoring and logging.
- Good Communication and consensus building skills.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $90,000 - $160,000/year, incentive eligible.
- Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs.
