Guidewire Digital Developer III

Overview

Who are we?

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.

Does this opportunity interest you?

Western National is seeking a highly collaborative and engaging Guidewire Digital Developer III 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 Enterprise Engage software. The individual in this role will work closely with our Guidewire Development Team using the Guidewire Jutro / React framework. We prefer candidates with a Guidewire Digital Specialist or ACE certification.

However, those with seven 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 the product team.
• Prepares and executes unit testing on all new and modified code per team, product, and organizational standards.
• Works with the product and change control teams to ensure quality deliveries.
• Creates and maintains documentation deemed important by the product team or the Group as a whole.
• Ensures timely delivery of projects and tasks and communicates delays and roadblocks with their team and leadership as needed.
• Flexes to noncore responsibilities as needed to ensure timely work delivery to customers.
• Collaborates with the 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 designs, deliveries, and updates.
• Solicits and performs code reviews per team, product, and organizational standards.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and collaborates with their team and team leadership to influence process improvements 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 of the above.
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

• Good mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and carry out assignments to completion.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical audiences throughout the organization.
• Intermediate knowledge and use of various core systems, office and computer equipment, and software packages.
• Experience with Jutro and React frameworks.
• Experience with Node.js and NPM.
• Highly effective at using required computer languages, code versioning, and deployment software and tools at an advanced level.
• Broad exposure to and fundamental knowledge of multiple technology stacks, frameworks, and additional core systems.
• Proactive mentorship that improves the effectiveness of colleagues in one or more areas of knowledge or skills, accommodating different learning styles.
• 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…