Senior Consultant (Front-End), Digital

Summary

• Guidewires Services Centre was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewires 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.
• Guidewires 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.

Essential Duties:

• Learn and master Guidewires 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, Guidewires 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, Guidewires 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.