Lead Guidewire ClaimCenter Integration Developer

Title:

Lead Guidewire Claim Center Integration Developer with Guidewire ACE Certified

Morristown, NJ;
Purchase, NY, Alpharetta, GA;
Charlotte, NC;
Chicago, IL;
Conshohocken, PA;
Denver, CO;
Fargo, ND;
Garden City, NY;
Houston, TX;
Lenexa, KS;
Lubbock, TX;
Morristown, NJ;
Mt Juliet, TN;
New York, NY;
Purchase, NY;
Topeka, KS - 03 days per week hybrid model

• Lead the design, development, delivery, and support of Guidewire Claim Center integrations and services.
• Oversee multiple development and maintenance teams, including onshore and offshore resources, across concurrent technical work streams.
• Collaborate with Project Management, Business Analysis, Product, and Architecture teams to estimate, plan, and deliver initiatives within scope and timelines.
• Provide technical ownership of Claim Center environments, ensuring platform stability, scalability, and adherence to SLAs.
• Design and govern integration solutions with Policy, Billing, Financial, CRM systems, bureaus, and third-party vendors.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines include automated testing, code quality checks, and secure deployment standards.
• Establish and enforce branching strategies to support parallel development tracks and release cycles.
• Maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, sequence flows, deployment models, and production runbooks.
• Monitor application performance and availability, diagnose issues across infrastructure, network, and application layers, and drive resolution.
• Define and enforce engineering standards related to security, logging, monitoring, build, deployment, and integration practices.
• Support production operations by managing incidents, data fixes, and system enhancements aligned with KPIs.

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with at least 7 years of hands‑on Guidewire Claim Center integration and configuration development.
• Prior experience serving as a Technical Lead delivering at least two end‑to‑end Guidewire Claim Center implementations within commercial insurance.
• Proven ownership and support of production Guidewire Claim Center platforms and associated integration ecosystems.
• Strong technical leadership experience managing teams of 10–20 engineers across onshore and offshore models.
• Expert‑level experience with Guidewire APIs, data model, product models, and integration frameworks.
• Hands‑on expertise with Java, GOSU, J2EE, XML, Web Services, and relational databases (SQL Server preferred).
• Experience with application servers such as Apache Tomcat.
• Strong experience with batch processing, messaging, event‑driven integrations, and migration utilities.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools and practices, including Jenkins, Git, code coverage, scanning tools (e.g., Sonar Qube), and Dev Sec Ops  principles.
• Guidewire Cloud migration experience is preferred.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Deep knowledge of P&C insurance, with a preference for commercial insurance domain experience.