Title- Guidewire Policy Center Architect
Job type- Contract to hire
Multiple Locations- Charlotte, NC; Garden City, NY; Morristown, NJ; Mt. Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Purchase, NY Chicago, IL; Colorado Springs, CO; Dallas, TX; Fargo, ND; Houston, TX; Jacksonville, IL; Lenexa, KS; Los Angeles, CA; Lubbock, TX; Topeka, KS
Role & Responsibilities-
- Design and implement robust, scalable solutions using Guidewire Policy Center v10 to meet business requirements.
- Translate intricate business requirements into technical solutions within the Policy Center framework.
- Conduct product modeling reviews, oversee technical design, and configuration for new product rollouts.
- Stay updated with the latest features of Guidewire Policy Center v10 and evaluate their relevance and utility for the organization.
- Uphold best practices in architecture and design within the Guidewire ecosystem.
- Customize and improve products, user interfaces, workflows, and business rules using Guidewire Studio.
- Utilize available accelerators to expedite development and reuse established architectural patterns.
- Oversee application configurations, releases, and software upgrade processes, both minor and major.
- Maintain development environments and manage coding branches effectively across various product lines.
- Provide mentorship to development teams, ensuring technical leadership, project allocation, and oversight.
- Coordinate with stakeholders and lead development teams, both onshore and offshore, to ensure timely delivery of solutions.
- Use project lifecycle management tools like TFS to maintain transparency in development activities.
- Collaborate closely with Project Management and Analysis teams for requirement understanding, scoping, and planning.
- Advise the QA team on potential impacts to facilitate adequate test case development.
- Work in partnership with Guidewire, third-party vendors, and other development teams for a seamless insurance platform.
- Recommend new Guidewire Policy Center v10 features for future adoption.
- Tackle complex technical issues throughout the project lifecycle.
- Drive continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies and methodologies.
- Establish and govern engineering standards related to security, logging, alerting, coding, and more.
- Ensure GUnit test cases are integrated into CI/CD pipelines for optimal code coverage.
- Assist in scripting and automating deployments to reduce manual tasks.
- Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture and deployment diagrams and production runbooks.
- Manage production applications against KPIs and troubleshoot issues across deployment layers.
Technical questions-
- At least 8 years of experience in Guidewire Policy Center development, including experience as a Technical Lead on at least three full-scale commercial policy product implementations.
- Demonstrated leadership and post-implementation ownership of Guidewire Policy Center products.
- A minimum of 8 years leading and managing onshore/offshore development teams for Guidewire product implementations.
- Over 10 years of Java development experience, with Guidewire Policy Center certification preferred.
- Expertise in Guidewire APIs, Product Designer, GX Model, and integrations.
- Proven experience with Guidewire Rating engine and configurations.
- Knowledge of Guidewire Renewal API and data migration strategies.
- Familiarity with ALM best practices for code versioning, integration, release management, and maintenance of Guidewire Policy Center products.
- Experience with Guidewire application partitioning and optimization for performance and scalability.
- Proficiency in secure software development practices and architectural standards specific to Guidewire configurations and integrations.
- Experienced with Agile SCRUM methodology and tools (TFS, Rally, JIRA, etc.) in a technical leadership capacity.
- Skilled in managing DevOps processes, including Builds, CI/CD Pipelines, and Version Control.