GWPC Integration Solutions Specialist

Job Title: GWPC Integration Developer

The ideal candidate will design and implement integration solutions that align with business requirements, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reusable integrations within the Guidewire platform. The developer will ensure adherence to best practices and standards.

This role requires strong technical expertise in Guidewire integrations, a solid understanding of insurance industry processes, and a commitment to continuous improvement and production support.

• Work with technical and business leaders during Guidewire Policy Center implementations and actively participate in the requirements review, assessment, and high-level and detailed sizing of required configuration and technical effort.
• Ensure technical design and specifications are in line with traceable user-stories/requirements and according to Guidewire and Sompo development best-practices.
• Leverage available Guidewire accelerators to accelerate development activities and make reuse of proven architectural patterns for integrations or product development activities.
• Ensure that delivered code is standards-based, G-unit tested, and code-reviewed with supporting artifacts and in line with business requirements and technical specifications.
• Develop integration solutions including Batch processes, Message Queues, and Event Messaging.
• Develop integration solutions with internal and external consumers.
• Leverage Guidewire EDGE APIs or EDGE-oriented extended models to build domain-based API solutions that are reusable.
• Establish and execute traceable unit and integration tests (automated as agreed).
• Write code/peer reviews and ensure that unit, integration, end-to-end, and smoke tests are conducted following continuous integration and deployment activities.
• Facilitate gate-checking code prior to higher environment propagations.
• Support various life-cycle phases during/post-implementation, including production support and maintenance.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong experience and understanding of Guidewire Edge APIs, with experience exposing Guidewire functionality (account, policy, user management, etc.) to external consumers.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter integration development, with an overall 5+ years of experience developing web-based Java/J2EE or .Net applications.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with XML, JSON, and SQL are required.
• Experience creating transactional as well as account and user-management integrations with Guidewire Policy Center and external systems. Strong understanding of reconciliation is required.
• Strong experience with SQL is required.
• Experience with web service hosting and consuming, using the Guidewire EDGE Layer.
• Strong experience designing/developing REST APIs or Web Services to expose Guidewire functionality to consumers.
• Experience leading offshore teams is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of Commercial P&C insurance is highly preferred.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate through and lead teams to solutioning.
• Experienced with Agile methodology and tooling (TFS, Rally, JIRA, etc.) in a technical owner capacity.
• Experience with source control tools like GIT, TFS, or similar.
• Strong experience/knowledge of Guidewire integration concepts: Batch Processing, Message Queues, and Event Processing.
• Demonstrated expertise and experience with Guidewire APIs, Product Designer, GX Model, Integrations, and Product Model development (for integration, testing, and data migrations) is preferred.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Candidate has excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain positive working relationships across the organization.
• Candidate has proficient time management skills to prioritize workload and meet project deadlines.
• Able to think creatively to propose innovative solutions to complex integration challenges.
• Possess a customer-oriented approach to understand and meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Candidate has strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy and quality in all aspects of the development process.
• Possess flexibility skills to adapt to changing technologies.
• Possess the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
• Able to work collaboratively in a team environment as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Candidate has excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field is strongly preferred.
• Certification in Guidewire Policy Center integration.