Job Description
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.Job Description
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.
