Technical Specialist-App Development

ROLE SUMMARY

The role focuses on driving the development, implementation, and support of solutions to meet evolving business needs. The position emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams, effective project management, and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation. Additionally, it involves ensuring adherence to high engineering standards, including security, logging, and system integration practices.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take ownership of Guidewire ClaimCenter development to implement and adapt to evolving business requirements.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Development, and QA teams to scope, size, plan, develop, implement, and support projects within the Claims portfolio.
• Ensure solutions include robust unit and functional testing with a high level of code coverage.
• Oversee the support and maintenance of the ClaimCenter ecosystem, including integrations with Policy, Financial, CRM systems, external bureaus, third-party vendors, and service providers.
• Develop, manage, and maintain comprehensive technical and solution documentation, such as architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams, and production runbooks.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce engineering standards for security, secure coding practices, logging, alerting, build processes, deployment pipelines, and system integrations.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of experience in the IT field, including 6+ years in Guidewire ClaimCenter integration development roles.
• Deep expertise in Guidewire APIs, GX Model, and Product Models.
• 4+ years of experience with Scrum or other Agile development methodologies.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with J2EE, Apache Tomcat, XML, Web Services, and RDBMS (SQL Server preferred).
• Advanced proficiency in XML, GUnit, Jenkins, Git/Subversion/TFS, and code quality tools such as SonarQube and Netsparker.
• Strong working knowledge of application servers like Apache Tomcat or similar platforms.
• Proficient in Java and GOSU programming with solid object-oriented design and development (OODD) fundamentals.
• Extensive experience developing batch processes, message queues, and event messaging within Guidewire ClaimCenter.
• Hands-on expertise in product migrations and conversions by building migration utilities leveraging ClaimCenter APIs.
• Proven experience with DevSecOps practices, including establishing and managing CI/CD pipelines for Claims builds and deployments.