Resource Profile

• 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
  

Knowledge & Skills

• 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
  
• 5+ years hands on experience in web development with React, Angular, HTML, CSS, Javascript/ES6, Typescript, npm, NodeJS, ReactJS, React Hooks, JSON
  
• 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, GitHub, 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.