Job Description This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world's preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we are bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way. The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric. Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service - both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients' brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline. Job Summary: Ascot's Guidewire Integration business unit is seeking a motivated Senior Integration Engineer to work on Guidewire claims center integrations and related systems. The Integration Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining integrations between Guidewire x-centers and various vendor systems, writing code in GOSU, and configuring application points according to specifications. The successful candidate will work closely with functional teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements, develop, test, and support integrations, while also participating in Agile scrum calls and coordinating with offshore teams. Job Responsibilities:
- Associate should be able to work on Guidewire claims center integration, should be able to write programs in GOSU programming language and should work on integrating different vendor points with guidewire x-centers.
- Need to work closely with the functional team and with business, to get requirements, develop code, test and support testing.
- Associate need to attend scrum calls, participate in offshore calls, coordinate with offshore team and delivery quality code
- Understand the interface requirements and configuration architecture.
- Create high level and detailed design document for one or more integrations.
- Configure application points as per specification using Guidewire components
- Work in Agile environments
- Knowledge of working with UI Frameworks (like Angular) is a plus
- Knowledge of working with monitoring tools like AppDynamics
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design best practices
- Knowledge of researching and preparing detailed technical specifications
- Good knowledge of estimating, planning and tracking development tasks
- Experience with debugging production issues and resolving them
- Experience with identifying application performance bottlenecks and resolving them
- In depth hands-on experience with continuous integration practices, processes and tools (Jenkins, JUNIT, GitLab)
- Proficient in writing configurable, maintainable and testable code in a highly collaborative environment
Required Qualifications:
- Guidewire Integration Certification
- Minimum 7 years of IT hands-on application development experience
- Minimum 4 years of IT hands-on development experience with Guidewire x-centers
- Experienced in Guidewire cloud
- Proven experience with Configuration and Integration experience with Guidewire x-centers
- Minimum 4 years of hand on experience with SQL (SQL server/Oracle/DB2)/No SQL related technologies
- Minimum 2 years of experience integrating with RESTful /SOAP Web services
- Experience in participating in functional workshops, defining integration backlog, sprint planning and handling scope, dependency & risks.
- Experience in requirement elicitation, gap analysis, process modelling, requirement management, driving UAT, defining implementation and data migration plans, product support and user training.
- Customer interfacing experience - Project oversight, customer relationship Management, Leading partner recommendations and resolution recommendations.
- Agile Scrum development methodology experience using Agile Management Tool such as DevOps / JIRA.
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Solid communication skills - verbal, written and presentation
- Ability to quickly adapt to new and evolving situations
Compensation Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to experience, subject matter expertise, and skills. The base pay is just one component of Ascot's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual cash bonus, long-term incentives, and other forms of discretionary compensation awarded by the Company. The annualized base pay range for this role is: $160,000 - $180,000 for New York Metro Area Company Benefits The Company provides a competitive benefits package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply): Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, AD&D, Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program), and more. Leave Benefits: Paid holidays, annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state /local paid leave where required), Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Other leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, Adoption, Maternity, Military, Primary & Non-Primary Caregiver) Retirement Benefits: Contributory Savings Plan (401k) #LI-Hybrid