Senior Guidewire developer/ technical lead - London

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Guidewire development, technical solution design, integration patterns, and Agile delivery, with the ability to lead development teams and ensure scalable, high-quality implementation across Guidewire XCenters., * Domain Expertise: Good experience in Property and Casualty insurance domain.

• Technical Design & Development Leadership: Lead the technical design and development of Guidewire solutions across PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter; translate business and functional requirements into technical designs, component specifications, and implementation approaches; drive development of configurations, customizations, rules, workflows, PCFs, integrations, and extensions; ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles, reusability, and performance best practices; review solution design and code to ensure alignment with project architecture and business needs.
• Team Leadership & Delivery Management: Lead and mentor a team of Guidewire developers and senior engineers across design, development and defect resolution; provide task estimation, sprint planning support, and technical oversight across Agile delivery cycles; coordinate with business analysts, architects, QA teams, DevOps, and project managers to ensure smooth execution; resolve technical blockers, production issues and environment-specific challenges in a timely manner.
• Guidewire Skills: Strong functional & technical understanding of Guidewire Insurance Product Suite (On-Prem and Cloud); Guidewire Certified Resource - preferably ACE across modules; experience with policy, claim and billing life cycles and transactions in Guidewire.
• Project Management: Lead a GW technical team; experience in development, execution and monitoring of project plans; experience in optimizing existing project plans and delivering project goals on time; working experience in implementation & AMS programs; experience with defect triaging, estimation, stakeholder management and application enhancements; ability to lead team and manage client stakeholders.
• Configuration Expertise: Hands-on experience with Guidewire xCenters (version 10.x & cloud/SaaS) configuration including:
• Workflows
• Data Model
• Rules
• Entity Creation/Modification
• Benefit Management
• PCFs customization
• Validations
• Widgets and their attributes
• Integration Mechanisms
• Guidewire Data Model
• Customization & Integration: Sound knowledge of Guidewire xCenters (version 10.x & Cloud/SaaS) customization and integration (Intra and Inter system integration) using REST and SOAP APIs.
• Technical Skills: Experience with batch processes, Guidewire Messaging framework and OOTB plugins; familiarity with infra concepts and deployment architecture (WMB, WAS and Apache); strong knowledge of software architecture and design in Guidewire ecosystem.
• Data Analysis: Ability to write SQL queries for data analysis.
• GW Cloud/SaaS Offerings: Working knowledge of GW Cloud/SaaS offerings including GT Framework, Integration Gateway, Advance Product Designer (APD), Autopilot, Underwriting Workbench and others., * High analytical skills
• A high degree of initiative and flexibility
• High customer orientation
• High quality awareness
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills