Guidewire Tech Lead

NexGen IOT Solutions are searching for a Guidewire Tech Lead for a Direct Placement assignment with one of our premier clients in the US.


Role: Guidewire Tech Lead

Exp: 10 years

Location: (Hybrid) Locations Boston MA; Charlotte NC; Colorado Springs CO; Conshohocken PA; Dallas TX; Fargo ND; Florham Park NJ; Houston TX; Jacksonville IL; Lenexa KS; Los Angeles CA; Lubbock TX; Mt Juliet TN; NY; New York NY; Purchase NY; Topeka KS

• Oversee Claims Center Development Teams with responsibility for designing developing and delivering new Commercial Insurance and Reinsurance products as well as supporting and maintaining a highly available and performing production environment
• Plan control and oversee engineering staffing needs across project and maintenance portfolios
• Work with Project Management and Business Architecture / Analysis and Product teams to help manage scope size planning development implementation and support for projects within the Claims portfolio
• Represent the Claims Technology teams to establish strong business relationships with key customers IT groups and vendors
• Collaborate with Business Analysis Product Operations and Testing groups in testing Claims applications to business and IT defined quality metrics and functional and nonfunctional KPIs.
• Manage maintain and support Claims Center platform and Claims services in line with SLAs within production and nonproduction environments
• Ensure that unit and functional tests are integrated into solutions and are part of CI/CD pipelines with high level of code coverage
• Ensure that proper branching methodologies are implemented for flexibility and agility with delivery supporting multiple development tracks
• Overall support of Claims Center ecosystem including integrations for Policy Financial and CRM systems as well as integrations with bureaus 3rd party vendors and other service providers
• Manage and maintain the technical / solution documentation including architecture diagrams sequence diagrams deployment diagrams and production runbooks
• Manage production applications to KPIs and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment from hardware operating environment network and application
• Manage maintain and govern engineering standards around security securecoding logging alerting build deployment and integrations.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (in order of level of need)

• 10 years in IT field with 7 years within Guidewire Claims Center in Integration / Configuration Development roles is required
• Prior technical leadership experience in Guidewire Claims Center delivering at least 2 endtoend Claims product implementations within Commercial Insurance space is required
• Prior Technical Lead role with an ownership of Guidewire Claims Center production environment is required. This includes endtoend support of the Guidewire Claims Center ecosystem
• Technical management experience managing onshore / offshore staff with teams between 1020 is required. The role requires strong capacity management priority management and organization skills
• Prior experience managing multiple Claims Center Development teams is required. The role is expected to oversee multiple technical tracks / implementation teams along with the maintenance track
• Guidewire Claims Center Certification is highly preferred
• Experience with Scrum or other Agile development methodologies is required
• Expert level handson experience with XML GUnit Jenkins GIT/Subversion/TFS Code Coverage and Code Scan Plugin / Tools (Sonarqube Netsparker etc.) and frameworks
• Expertise in Guidewire APIs GX Model and Product Models
• GW Claims Center Integration experience is required. The role will have technical ownership of dozens of internal and external integrations
• Handson experience and deep knowledge with Apache Tomcat or similar application servers.
• 5 years handson experience working with J2EE Tomcat XML/Web Services/ RDBMS (SQL Server preferred)
• Handson experience and expertise with Java and GOSU programming and strong fundamentals with OODD
• Strong handson development experience with Batch Processes Message Queues and Event Messaging within Guidewire Claims Center
• Technical experience with product migrations / conversion is required by developing migration utilities leveraging Claims Center APIs
• Experience with DevSecOps and establishing and managing CI/CD pipelines for Claims build / deployments
• Experience with production data fix utilities is required
• Proven experience defining technology roadmaps and establishing an execution plan for Claims platforms integrations and services
• Experience in P&C insurance is required (Commercial Insurance is preferred)
• Has the ability to work with business partners and articulate technical trends/concepts and design/implementation considerations
• Strong skills in problem solving resource and portfolio planning and budgeting
• Solid financial acumen able to construct sound business plans and effectively execute against them within planned budget and established timelines with high quality

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor or masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field

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