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.
Resource Responsibilities
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
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.
