Guidewire Developer IV

Description

Western National Insurance Group is a private mutual insurance company with over 120 years of experience serving customers' property‑and‑casualty insurance needs in the Midwestern, Northwestern, and Southwestern United States. Known as “The Relationship Company®,” we define success as a measure of the relationships we’ve built over time. In everything that we do, we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved.

That’s the power of “nice.” At Western National, nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.

Western National is seeking a highly collaborative and engaging Software Developer IV to join our team!

The individual in this role will assist our Application Development Team in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, unit testing, and implementation of our Insurance Suite software. The individual in this role will work closely with our Guidewire Development Team using a language similar to Java. We prefer a Guidewire Insurance Suite Cloud Policy Center Specialist or ACE certification.

Candidates with eight years of hands‑on Guidewire development experience will also be considered.

• Regularly interacts with business partners across the organization.
• Collaborates in troubleshooting application issues.
• Occasionally interacts with external vendors.
• Participates in work refinement and estimation processes with product team.
• Prepares and executes unit testing on all new and modified code per team, product, and organization standards.
• Works with product team and change control team to ensure quality deliveries.
• Creates and maintains documentation that the product team or company has defined as important.
• Ensures timely delivery of projects and tasks and communicates delays and roadblocks with team and leadership as needed.
• Flexes to noncore responsibilities as needed to ensure timely work delivery to the customer.
• Collaborates with product team to design, develop, test, and deploy application modifications of mixed impact and risk based on collaboratively defined requirements.
• Prepares technical specifications, flow charts, and data flow diagrams to effectively communicate somewhat complex application design, delivery, and updates.
• Solicits and performs code review per team, product, and organization standards.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and collaborates with team and team leadership to influence process improvement at the product team level.
• Participates in troubleshooting, resolution, and communication of urgent production issues.
• Finds opportunities for automation of processes and tasks at the product team level.
• Effectively answers complex questions on all the above.
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Good mathematical, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and carry out assignments to completion.
• Strong attention to detail and quality.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical and nontechnical audiences throughout the organization.
• Intermediate knowledge and use of various core systems, office and computer equipment, and software packages.
• Experience with GOSU programming.
• Advanced level effectiveness in required computer languages, code versioning, and deployment software and tools.
• Broad exposure to and fundamental knowledge of multiple technology stacks, frameworks, and additional core systems.
• Relevant education and training; experience in lieu of education acceptable.

• Demonstrated intermediate organizational and prioritization skills with ability to accomplish multiple priorities of mixed impact and risk within specified time frames.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with all product team members and with other teams.
• Demonstrated basic knowledge and application of relevant project…