Guidewire Technical Lead

Here is a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities that will fall to you:

• Provide technical leadership for the Guidewire platform and act as a reference for development teams;
• Translate business needs, functional requirements and architecture orientations into robust, scalable, secure and easy-to-maintain solutions;
• Design implementation strategies, guide application architecture decisions and guide the implementation of solutions;
• Mentor and support developers to promote their progress, autonomy and adoption of best practices;
• Participate in detailed design, development, integration, testing, deployment and application support activities;
• Carry out design, configuration and code reviews to ensure compliance with quality, security, performance and maintainability standards;
• Collaborate with architecture consultants, business analysts, quality specialists, operations teams and technology partners to ensure consistency of solutions;
• Analyze complex technical issues, coordinate the resolution of major incidents and perform root cause analyses;
• Plan delivery activities, estimate efforts and assess risks, dependencies and technical impacts;
• Optimize the performance, stability, automation, and observability of the platform;
• Promote DevSecOps practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of development methods.

The profile sought is as follows:

• Hold a university certificate in computer science, software engineering or an appropriate discipline;
• Have a minimum of eight (8) years of software development experience, including six (6) years with the Guidewire platform and three (3) years in a technical leadership role;
• Possess an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience that may be considered;
• Must be Guidewire ACE certified;
• Proficiency in Guidewire, Gosu, and Java;
• Design and integrate REST and SOAP services as well as data exchanges in XML and JSON;
• Deliver complex Guidewire solutions in large organizational environments;
• Understand application architectures, integration mechanisms and cloud environments;
• Apply agile and DevOps practices as well as continuous integration and deployment mechanisms;
• Use source code management tools effectively;
• Knowledge of the field of damage insurance.