Position: Sr Manager, Guidewire Development
Location : Markham, Toronto,ON
Mode : Hybrid

Job Description :

As a manager of the Guidewire Development team, you will be working with globally distributed teams, including business representatives, business analysts, architects, and engineers to plan, design, develop, test, and implement solutions. You will also assess Technical Debts and Priorities with the leads to make sure the solutions that are built are sustainable and are production ready. We embrace a culture challenging the status quo and constantly looking to simplify processes, technology, and workflow.

What you'll do :

• Requirements Analysis:

Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to review the software requirements, challenge them on the business value, validate the assumptions made, influencing the stakeholders on the prioritization of the work.

• Solution Design & Estimation :

Create architectural diagrams, high level, and detailed design documents & estimates.

Design screens, business rules, and workflow changes

Work with project managers and product owners on alternate solutions and adjust the solution to either fit with the given timeline or be within the budget.

• Coding and Peer Reviews :

Write programs, configure / package / deploy software.

Establish and follow coding standards.

Debug and unit test the code.

Perform peer code reviews.

Work with DevOps and Testers on improving automation.

• Coaching and Mentoring :

Mentor team members on best practices.

Coach the senior resources to become the future leaders.

• People Management :

Set clear goals for the team members.

Meet with the team 1-on-1 on a regular basis.

Collect feedback from stakeholders and provide feedback to the team on a regular basis.

Coach and deal with under performers.

Hire talent by conducting technical, behavioral interviews.

Skills Required:

• Strong communication skills required.
• Guidewire Could Certification required and ACE is preferred.
• 2 years of most recent Guidewire Claims domain and technical hands-on experience
• Understand Cloud Technologies and experience in leading Cloud programs.
• Minimum 8 years hands on experience of GW Integration Development (Expertise in GOSU, Rules Engine, Data Model, API development)
• Minimum 8 years of experience in GW integration development using GOSU with PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ContactManager and ClaimCenter
• Minimum 8 years in architecting integration of GW PC/BC/CM/CC/Digital product with internal and external systems/applications.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience building Micro-services architecture, Event driven architecture and patterns.
• Minimum 2 years of experience GW Edge API and its customization
• Agile software development, including the use of Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence.
• Domain knowledge on Property & Casualty Insurance

Nice to have:

• Core Java and Spring Boot
• REST APIs, web services, and messaging
• Database systems such as Oracle and Mongo

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