Senior Guidewire Developer – Billingcenter
| Company | Kemper |
|---|---|
| Location | Birmingham, AL, USA, Dallas, TX, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, Downers Grove, IL, USA, Alpharetta, GA, USA, Jacksonville, FL, USA |
| Salary | $86200 – $143600 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8 years of developer experience
- Bachelor’s degree, equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification
- 5 years extensive experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite
- 3 recent years of ongoing BillingCenter experience
- Experience in technical disciplines such as Java/Spring, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Angular, Hibernate, SQL, JSON/XML, REST Web Services, Git/SVN, Jenkins, Oracle & SQL
- Experience with cloud development practices
- Demonstrates advanced technical skills
- Advanced knowledge of a gosu and a good knowledge of related languages
- The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation, development and support projects
- Advanced knowledge of program design methods and techniques and standard development tools
- Ability to understand and identify improvement areas in architecture and integration designs
- Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals
- Demonstrates excellent leadership qualities in managing the work of a team of professional employees
- Able to follow and create best practice development standards
- Worked with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall)
- Able to translate business to technical requirements
- Requires minimal managerial direction
- Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements
Responsibilities
- Provides technical support for multiple BillingCenter functions and integrations
- Develops, documents and executes unit test cases
- Delivers quality and timely results
- Owns and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes
- Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and end to end test coverage
- Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures
- Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction
- Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables
- Ensure reviews for quality (accurate and complete) of application software designs are scheduled and conducted to ensure optimal use of software systems
- Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies
- Leads projects across technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed
- Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IT projects teams for multiple scopes
- Researches, evaluates and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation
- Implement and support proof-of-concept activities for new technologies
- Develops and obtains sign offs on technical specs, design documents, functional designs and requirements
- Guide teams on long term solutions for resolving frequently occurring production problems and reducing defect leakage
- Ensure code is being developed per standards with focus on maintainability and ensure unit test cases are being developed, documented and executed with the test results recorded
- Ensure that the technical design presented by the architects is followed by the software development staff
- Ensure batch cycles are being executed according to plan and that defects are resolved in an accurate and timely fashion
- Lead team in successful completion of phase gates for projects
Preferred Qualifications
- P&C Non-Standard Auto Insurance experience preferred
- Advanced certifications for coding/development. Current Guidewire Certified Ace preferred