Guidewire Developer - PolicyCenter

New Year - New JobWe are recruiting for a Senior Guidewire Developer - PolicyCenter for our clients Jacksonville, FL office. This team member will assist the team in the design, development and maintenance of the client's Guidewire PolicyCenter and integrate applications with various 3rd party insurance and financial vendors. You will work closely with Software Engineers and Architects in the development of system components.

• Provides technical support for multiple moderately complex insurance and financial applications and system software technologies within areas of expertise.
• Provides estimates to design, code, unit test and deploy complex requirements to applications owned by the team.
• 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
• 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.
• Develops and obtains sign offs on technical specs, design documents, functional designs and requirements.
• Guides 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.

• 6+ years of development experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• 2+ years of current experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter
• Utilizes Java EE, Spring 4+ framework (Spring Core, MVC, Data Access, Web Services, Boot), Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), Java architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), Javascript, Webservices (SOAP and JSON), SOAPUI, XMLSpy, Groovy, Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle and SQLServer database, IBM WebSphere and Tomcat 8 webservers and markup languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, JSON.
• Version control using Git (e.g. Stash, Github, Gitlab etc.) and Gradle Build Tool (version 3+)
• Unit testing with JUnit4/5 and/or Spock and mocking frameworks (e.g. JMockit / Mockito / Spock / Spring Testing)
• Java, Spring Boot experience required.
• SQL and JavaScript experience a plus.
• Experience with cloud development practices.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of a specific programming language and a good knowledge of related languages.
• The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation, development and support projects
• Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals.
• Work experience with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.
• Professional experience within Insurance or Financial Services preferred.