Senior Consultant

Summary

Guidewire's Services Centre was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewire's products, currently being used by customers who are household names globally.

Guidewire is seeking a number of highly motivated Digital front-end implementation consultants that are looking to work with current, leading-edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects.

Guidewire's market-leading Digital products enable insurance carriers to build and implement leading-edge sales and self-service digital capabilities. These capabilities provide Agents and Policy Holders interfaces to quickly and easily create and service insurance policies.

Each new member of the team will undergo Guidewire Digital training prior to working on a project. Mentors will also be assigned to allow new team members to develop their technical skill and learn the Guidewire SurePath Methodology and Digital Best Practices.

Job Description

Essential Duties:

• Learn and master Guidewire's Digital products in order to perform implementation and development of our products for technical consulting.
• As a Digital consultant, you will be building new, innovative user interfaces for the insurance industry using Guidewire Jutro, Guidewire's design system and front-end framework. Jutro enables developers to seamlessly develop Guidewire applications for customers and empowers designers to create consistent and cohesive user experience designs.
• You will be collaborating with User Experience, Business Analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation teams to deliver end-to-end solutions to the P&C industry.
• You will also advocate for customers to adhere to our powerful Digital out-of-the-box capabilities, ensuring an optimal time-to-market and easier future upgrades to newer versions of our products.
• Product Expertise: Learn and master your assigned Guidewire product and pass the required Guidewire certification as a Subject matter expert within the expected timeframe.

Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 6 years professional experience
• 3-5 years of software development experience using web technologies
• Highly skilled in JavaScript and React framework - at least 1-2 years of experience with React
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is required
• Experience with or willingness and ability to learn Jutro, Guidewire's design system
• Appetite to advise Guidewire customers on how to adhere to out-of-the-box Digital capabilities of our Digital products
• Experience with HTML, CSS, SASS, and other look-and-feel techpologies
• Experience with automated unit testing using Jest/Enzyme or similar frameworks
• Exposure to server-side technologies (SON/RPC, REST)
• Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• • Ability to write clean, modular, and well-structured code, ensuring that each component is reusable, maintainable, and easy to understand

Other Skills & Requirements:

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from third-level or higher education institution
• Able to demonstrate experience with building web/mobile services and single-page applications
• Good knowledge of software development lifecycle (Agile) required
• Collaboration with UX designers
• Effective communication and collaboration skills and experience interacting with customers in a consulting environment
• Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver
• Strong English skills
• Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers).

Nice to have:

• Insurance industry experience
• Exposure to Invision, sketch, or other UX prototyping tools
• Experience migrating AngularJs Applications to React is a distinct advantage.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

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