Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

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Guidewire Developer

Philadelphia, PA

Long term contract

Need GC and USC

MUST HAVE:

o 3-5 years of guidewire experience

o Policy center

o Billing center

Job Description:

The Sr. GW Configuration Developer will have a thorough understanding of Guidewire products with a specific skill set in Policy Center and Billing Center. This role will work with internal customers to design, develop, make program and/or configuration changes to deliver business functionality within Guidewire. The individual will be a leader within the team and help develop GW skills and experience with other team members.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

1. The role will work with internal customers/architects/Developers to design, develop, and maintain functionality within the Guidewire platform.

2. Work with development teams so that proper patterns/practices are used to deliver software solutions.

3. Represent Configuration resources and demand in planning sessions with a keen eye on delivery.

4. Responsible for Development skill assessments and making sure Developers are getting the proper feedback around the work that they are doing.

5. Assess Technical Debt and Priorities with the development teams and leads to make sure the solutions that are built are sustainable and are production ready.

6. Other Duties as assigned.

Knowledge:

• 3+ years of experience with Guidewire applications.

• 7 to 10 years of experience as a developer with experience of design and team-leading

• An understanding of the insurance business, an ability to talk to business analysts and SMEs in order to translate business requirements into system changes.

• A full understanding of the GW product suite and the frameworks/options available for Development.

• Knowledge in configuration and coding using Guidewire tools and accelerators, Guidewire Batch, and Guidewire predefined plugins.

• Experience in configuration of screen layouts, including creation of new screens, enhancements to others and XML file changes.

• Database definition and design at the application level

• Experience relating to screen-related changes, changes to wizards, workflows, validation rules, an Business rules.

• Definition, design and configuration of the company structure (single or multiple internal companies, organization structure, regions, branches, users, roles, permissions, producer codes)

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to solve business needs/requirements with creative use of out of the box functionality.

• A strong Gosu and Java background as well as utilization of Guidewire Studio required.

• Must have experience using Java and J2EE

• Highly proficient in SQL (T-SQL or PL/SQL)

• Experience writing SQL Queries

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Strong analytical and technical skills.

• Prior experience with GIT, Jenkins, Rally or other similar applications.

Other Position Parameters

• Experience with Insurance Systems and GW capabilities

• Experience with the mortgage lending or servicing industries a plus.

• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, and overall strategies around data reuse and integration.

• Ability to drive the work forward, collaborating with the business and technical staff on a daily basis.

• A strong sense of customer service with a strong desire to deliver.

Prior Work Experience

• 5-8 years

Supervisory Experience

• 6 months – 1 year

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 468 0398.