Guidewire’s Services Centre was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewire’s products, currently being used by customers who are household names globally.
Guidewire is seeking a highly motivated Digital technical lead looking to work with current, leading-edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects.
Guidewire's market-leading Digital products enable insurance carriers to build and implement leading-edge sales and self-service digital capabilities. These capabilities provide Agents and Policy Holders interfaces to quickly and easily create and service insurance policies.
Each new member of the team will undergo Guidewire Digital training prior to working on a project. Mentors will also be assigned to allow new team members to develop their technical skill and learn the Guidewire SurePath Methodology and Digital Best Practices.
Essential Duties
- Lead a team of digital developers building new, innovative user interfaces interacting with the Guidewire Cloud APIs and external systems.
- Design and document solutions which adhere to our powerful Digital out-of-the-box capabilities, ensuring an optimal time-to-market and easier future upgrades to newer versions of our products.
- Represent the development team and collaborate closely with User Experience, Business Analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation teams to deliver end-to-end solutions to the P&C industry.
- Estimate and identify dependencies on digital projects
- Reviewing code standards, and mentoring the team
- Flexible to work shifts as required to liase with AMER/APAC Colleagues & customers.
Technical Skills:
- Minimum of 8 years professional experience
- Requirement of 2+ years experience in one or more of the following settings: 1) Working on a Guidewire suite product 2) Working on any Guidewire xEngage product 3) Knowledge of Guidewire integration capabilities and APIs
- 7+ years of software development experience using web technologies
- Highly skilled in JavaScript and React framework – 2+ years of experience with React
- Knowledge of Java and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) languages is required
- Experience with or willingness and ability to learn Jutro, Guidewire’s design system
- Experience with HTML, CSS, SASS, and other look-and-feel technologies
- Experience with automated unit testing using Jest/Enzyme or similar frameworks
- Exposure to server-side technologies (JSON/RPC, REST)Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Ability to write clean, modular, and well-structured code, ensuring that each component is reusable, maintainable, and easy to understand
Other Skills:
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from third-level or higher education institution
- Insurance industry experience required
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (Agile) required
- Able to demonstrate experience with building web/mobile services and single-page applications
- Effective communication and collaboration skills and experience interacting with team members and project sponsors
- Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver
- Strong English skills
Nice to have:
- Exposure to Figma, Invision, Sketch, or other UX prototyping tools
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.
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