Guidewire Architect

Key Skills: Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter & ClaimCenter
Job Location: Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, and Bengaluru
Mode of Work: Work From Office

Experience: 12+ Years

About the job:
Are you someone with an ability to take a leadership role in solving problem and working with a team to resolve technical complexities as well as provide confidence to our customers on the solutions and our ability to deliver projects ensuring high quality, innovation and functional design? We have an exciting opportunity…read on!

ValueMomentum is seeking a Technical Architect with a strong background in designing and implementing business solutions that meet the functional, technical and performance requirements to join our growing CoreLeverage team. You have deep insights into the software development lifecycle with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and ready to take on new challenges. You will lead and mentor a team of talented software developers to build world class applications and systems by providing guidance to the team from Guidewire Architecture perspective.

You have a strong understanding of complex software architecture to help your team with providing design input and architecture reviews. You will lead the development of proof-of-concept for the business problems. You will work closely with the customer architects & SMEs to ensure alignment of solutions with the business and IT strategies. Communicate regularly on solutions, expectations, estimates, priorities, status and impacts.

You will ensure the team adopts the best practices from the perspective of architectural artifacts, interface, tools, etc. You will communicate regularly on the solutions and status to all levels of business and management.

Know your team:

At ValueMomentum Technology Solution Centers, we are a team of passionate software engineering teams who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions catering to the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through a strong software engineering foundation and by continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas: Platforms, Infra/Cloud, Application, Data, Core, and Quality Assurance.

Join our team that invests in your growth. Our Infinity Program empowers you to build your career with role-specific skill development, leveraging immersive learning platforms. You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the best minds serving insurance customers in the US, UK and Canadian markets.

Responsibilities:

• To lead and drive a team of developers in a fast-paced environment while solving difficult business problems.
• Prepare and enhance design documents that would be needed to support product configuration – Field mapping, Data definition, rules definition and so on
• Be responsible for leading the solutioning efforts by developing and presenting POCs
• Configure, build & develop Guidewire components using GOSU, Wizards, PCF, Data Model, Workflow, Activities, Product Designer, etc.
• Identify value additions that can be built as configuration components and reused on multiple projects to gain efficiency/productivity.
• Coordinate with business users, business analysts, and team members to understand the business requirements and configure complex business rules and workflows.
• Trouble shoot & resolve technical issues, provide solutions & workarounds to critical requirements.
• Lead, mentor & coordinate with the offshore team.
• Oversee and contribute to daily communication / reports between onsite and offshore.
• Oversee daily task allocation, monitoring, and status reporting to the client & project leadership.

Requirements:

• Have an overall work experience ranging between 10-15 years, with at least 5 years of Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter or ClaimCenter implementation experience, solution design, configuration, extension, customization and post live support experience.
• Have a ‘differentiator’ mindset – a practitioner who contributes to asset creation and build the competency / team
• Have a deep insight into the SDLC and strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of application development projects involving the implementation of complex business rules.
• Have proven technical experience in requirement analysis, detailed designs and implementation activities required to ensure the development, integration and long-term maintenance of applications.
• Expertise in configuration and development of various areas of Guidewire – Transactions, Job configuration, Experience in implementing multiple LOBs, Forms Management, Administration, Account Management, Contacts and so on.
• Configure, build & develop Guidewire components using GOSU, Wizards, PCF, Data Model, Workflow, Activities, Product Designer etc.
• Have previous experience with using XML, GUnit, Jenkins / GIT /TFS etc., any code coverage or code scanning tools like SonarQube
• Have previous experience in using app servers like IBM WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, TomCat etc.
• Have previous experience in using DB Servers like SQL, Oracle or DB2
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Guidewire Certification is preferred.

Good To Have:
Candidates with these additional skills on their resumes have an added advantage when their profiles are being assessed. Some of them are as follows:

• Good to have Guidewire certification on the Integration track.
• Awareness on Cloud Implementation is beneficial.
• Experience working in Agile preferred.

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