Senior Guidewire Developer - Policy Center

Description

Remote position with the ability to travel to our NJ and NY locations up to 25% of the time.

Position Summary:

Senior Guidewire Developer with 10 years of experience in Plan, design, develop, modify, debug, and evaluate complex software for technical and integration areas of the Guidewire Policy Center, Claims Center & Billing Center.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and unit test solutions using Guidewire application tools for Cloud implementation.
• Experience in Guidewire Configuration and/or Integration development sub team that is part of a larger development work stream.
• Manage scope, estimate work, build plan and schedule, track and deliver to plan.
• Clearly communicate and work with onsite/offshore teams and client 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.
• Interact with other internal IT teams (including client, vendor, onshore and offshore) to complete project activities.
• Propose integration solutions and estimate integration effort required for user story requirements.
• 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.
• Understand and apply industry practices, architectural standards and department policies and procedures relating to work assignments

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor Degree required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Guidewire Policy Center and at least one full product implementation required.
• Guidewire Policy Center configuration certification required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in configuration and coding using Guidewire tools and accelerators, Guidewire Batch, Guidewire predefined plugins required.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Property & Casualty insurance domain required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Java development experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with tools like Jira, Git, Bitbucket etc required.
• Minimum 2 years of expertise in Guidewire APIs, GX Model and Product Models required.
• Strong working knowledge of Guidewire integration concept: Batch Processing, Message Queues and Event Processing required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites.

Skills:

• Strong Configuration / Integration skills (v10.0 or above) 
• Desired areas of technical/functional expertise include GOSU, PCF, XML, Product Model, Activity Assignments, Forms Inference.
• Strong understanding of the Guidewire platform (UI, Data Model, Studio etc.)
• Solid technical background in Core Java, XML, SQL
• Working knowledge of one or more RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Experience and knowledgeable of modern software architectures, design patterns, and development techniques.
• Application of structured software development techniques including requirements analysis, functional decomposition, modeling, prototyping, functional design, estimating and testing.
• Must be able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance.
• Knowledge in at least one Software Configuration Management tool like SVN, CVS etc.
• Working knowledge of one or more SDLC methodologies like agile.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of secure software development.
• Familiar with Tomcat and/or WebSphere preferred.
• Working knowledge in at least one JEE framework preferred.
• Rating experience preferred.

The salary range for this role is $101,900 - $193,700. The listed annual salary range posted for this position is subject to change and may vary depending on performance, education, experience, skills, geographic location, travel requirements, demonstrated proficiency in the competencies required for the role and business needs.  Base pay is just one component of GNY’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards include eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus based on performance.

Salary : $101,900 - $193,700