Senior Development Lead - Guidewire ClaimCenter

What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. Your new role Technical Leadership

• Provide technical direction and design oversight for Guidewire ClaimCenter solutions

• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles

• Review and govern solution designs, integrations, and configuration approaches

• Act as a technical escalation point for complex development and integration issues

• Ensure high-quality integrations with external systems (APIs, messaging, batch processes, plugins)

• Line manage, coach, and mentor Guidewire developers across multiple experience levels

• Support skills development, career growth, and succession planning within the team

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and collaboration

Do you have experience in Web services?, * Strong leadership capability with proven experience leading and managing software engineers

• Deep technical expertise in Guidewire ClaimCenter development(UI, workflows, Gosu scripting, GUnit tests)

• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage at all levels of the organisation

• High attention to detail combined with a pragmatic delivery mindset

• Ability to translate business strategy into clear technical direction

• Proven hands-on experience designing and delivering Guidewire ClaimCenter solutions

• Strong knowledge of Gosu and Java

• Integration patterns (web services, messaging, batch processes, plugins)

• Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments

• Experience authoring and governing technical documentation

• Strong experience with CI/CD, source control, and release management (Git, Azure DevOps, branching strategies)

• Experience using issue and work-tracking tools such as JIRA

• Certified in Guidewire v10 Integration and Configuration (ACE certification preferred)., Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Financial Systems, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Process Improvements, Project Management, Risk Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies, Software Engineering, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Technical Architecture

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.

• Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.

• Pension - you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.

To learn more about benefits of working with us, click Rewarding our people - QBE European Operations Awards & Recognition We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards: Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2025:

• Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year, Winner: Reinsurer of the Year - QBE Re, Winner: ESG, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year, Winner: Insurance Personality of the Year - Chris Wallace, Executive Director UK insurance

• AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year

• Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards 2024: QBE rated as a 5-Star Cyber Insurer

QBE Europe is recruiting a Senior Development Lead - Guidewire Claim Center to join our development team in our London office. The Senior Development Lead - Guidewire ClaimCenter is accountable for the technical leadership, people leadership, and delivery outcomes of one or more Agile delivery teams working on Guidewire ClaimCenter solutions. The role provides hands-on technical leadership while managing developers to ensure solutions are designed and delivered to the highest quality standards, aligned to business outcomes and QBE technology strategy. The Senior Development Lead works within an Agile delivery model, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, Business Analysts, and external partners, while providing direction, coaching, and governance for development teams. Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role. QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion. About QBE At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch. We're an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries - which means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It's an exciting time. We're building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner., QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.