Guide and mentor development team ensuring efficient code development and adherence to coding standards. Foster a collaborative development culture and drive technical innovation while ensuring alignment to out of the box products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, building and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements, leveraging technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
  
• Directing the development team in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including design, development, coding, testing, and debugging, to deliver high-quality solutions
  
• Writing testable, scalable, and efficient code, leading by example, and setting coding standards for the team
  
• Ensure alignment of client and vendor code with Guidewire recommended guidelines, best practices and cloud standards where applicable
  
• Planning and documenting comprehensive technical specifications for features or system design, ensuring a clear roadmap for development and implementation.
  
• Ensuring product alignment with OOTB Guidewire product and analyze requirements for customization to ensure future upgradability
  
• Working with Guidewire to log tickets and understand digital roadmap features coming in future cloud releases
  
• Oversee daily tasks for developers, conduct code reviews, ensure code is aligned with security standards and industry best practices
  
• Proactively look for gaps in development logic, work with the team to overcome complex challenges and assist the team in navigating complex environment landscapes
  
• Conducting impact analysis, determine recommended approaches and lead implementation of complex solutions
  
• Providing technical consulting to business analysts, and technical associates, while working in close
  
• coordination with the architecture team
  
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and effectively translate them into technical requirements for the development team
  

Requirements

• Overall 10+ years in design, development of systems – preferably within Insurance
  
• 5+ years of hands on experience of Guidewire Policy Centre, Claim Centre and Billing Centre (v7 or above) and Guidewire Digital products such as Customer Engage and JDP
  
• Guidewire cloud certification
  
• Working experience for Guidewire Policy Centre, Claim Centre and Billing Centre with hands on experience with messaging, api, working with web service, startable plugin and batch job etc.
  
• Possess skills and knowledge of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) methodologies and
  
• processes such as object-oriented programming, distributed, and cross-platform program
  
• communication.
  
• Possess a strong understanding of open systems architecture including integrations with vendor packages, relational databases, message queues, web services and legacy systems is must
  
• Experience working with at least 1 major Insurance carrier – either full time or as a consultant
  
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to all audiences verbally and in writing
  
• Experienced with Agile methodologies as well as devops tools
  
• Proven track record of creating clear, concise deliverables that reflect a deep understanding of
  
• Guidewire Policy Centre and Billing Centre and the out of the box software functionality as well as Guidewire Digital
  
• Jutro out of the box components or JDP platform
  
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  
• Experience operating and interfacing with business management, including negotiation and
  
• presentation skills.
  
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Understands communication channels and
  
• escalates appropriately.
  
• Must be able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
  
• Personal time management skills and ability to meet individual and team deadlines.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Worker Compensation Lines
  
• Skilled with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket or equivalent tool
  
• Experience with the full SDLC, including the end-to-end test cycle and agile/iterative
  

Skillset

• Overall 10+ years in design, development of systems – preferably within Insurance
  
• 5+ years of hands on experience of Guidewire Policy Centre and Billing Centre (v7 or higher) and Guidewire Jutro or JDP Platform
  
• 4-years Bachelor's degree, Excellent organization and communication skills
  
• 5+ years in an Agile environment with exposure to SCRUM, and Lean methodology
  
• Strong problem-solving skills, able to prioritize among many conflicting n3eeds, advocate a course of action, and pursue it consistently but flexible and responsive to dynamic situations
  
• Ability to provide expert technical advice, guidance and mentoring to project team members and stakeholders
  
• Ability to resolve complex technology/systems issues, determining areas of risk and recommending innovative alternatives and options for resolution to meet client needs