Guidewire Architect - Erie, PA (Onsite) - 12+ Months Contract

Job Title: Guidewire Architect

Job Location: Erie, PA (onsite)

Job Type: Long Term

Job Description

You Are:

A talented application GW Claims Center Application Architect with deep knowledge of Guidewire Claim Center & GW Products. You’re skilled in all aspects of Guidewire implementation, from design and configuration to customization and support after the solution goes live. You enjoy working with people with all different skill sets, and you have a flair for negotiating and gaining consensus in a fast-paced environment. You have plenty—you’re a master at juggling multiple tasks and meeting deadlines. Planning and strategizing come easily to you, and you have a take-charge approach to seeing tasks through to completion.

The Work

Bring Latest GW offering, products, innovation, and best practice to the table.

Work with Customer Architects, Lead Engineers, Solution architect and technical leads to identify the solutions that are relevant to business problems and targeted architecture.

Identify, create, extend, and maintain reusable architectural patterns & solutions and to facilitate development of future solutions

Prepare detailed designs for complex features and assist developers with implementation.

Guide the Tech leads and Teams on ground on implementation and execution challenges.

Create GW SAAS best practices, product standards, quality assurance norms and guidelines. and track until implement in to the projects.

Review code and ensure developers are adhering to standards, GW best practices and properly addressing.

Create detailed design document/technical specifications, for select GWCC, Digital and Edge services-based projects.

Track the teams on efficient and quality code based on given specifications.

Create Guidewire Accelerators and white papers.

Here’s What You Need

Strong GW Product knowledge and Insurance domain knowledge.

Guidewire Ace certified in configuration and Integration

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Guidewire Architect role (expertise in Architecting and expanding the solutions on top of GW OOTB functionalities).

Must have GW cloud experience.

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Guidewire Claims center Configuration, Integration and Testing Frameworks.

Minimum of 10 years of proven development experience in Object Oriented Programming (such as Java) and SQL.

Experience supporting Property & Casualty Insurance to understand and analyze the business needs of the customer.

Should have GW SAAS implementation experience.

Prior experience with Apache and JBOSS Application servers.

Experience with either XML, GUnit, Jenkins, GIT/Subversion/TFS, Code Coverage and Code Scan Plugin/Tools.

Prior experience with Application Servers like WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss and/or Tomcat.

Good To have

Expertise in designing the overall solutions on GW Products like Jutro , cloud API’s , Integration framework.

Expertise in writing G Unit test cases and integrate them to build/pipeline.

Background in consulting or equivalent in a customer-facing role in professional services.

Ability to handle technical leadership tasks (Solution Design, estimating, delivery of technical training/education).

Ability to become certified in multiple Guidewire Insurance Suite products and develop a thorough understanding of product platform, including all integration technologies.

Demonstrable proficiency in designing, implementing and supporting packaged vendor products.

Prior experience with Database Servers like SQL Server, Oracle, and/or DB2.

Ability to engage different stakeholders (Configuration, Integration, Middleware and Legacy teams) to resolve issues.