Job Summary
This position works with business stakeholders, solution engineers, product owners, and Agile team members to develop, test, and deploy Guidewire PolicyCenter configuration and integration solutions. The role applies entry-level Guidewire development skills, follows established coding and design standards, and delivers reliable working functionality each sprint with frequent support and guidance from senior developers, solution engineers, or architects.
Essential Job Functions
- Interprets basic customer and business needs and provides technical input into straightforward application solutions and system design.
- Codes and configures programs, objects, components, and packaged software using established standards, examples, and guidance.
- Documents implementation details and performs basic quality checks on code, configuration, related components, test evidence, and supporting documentation.
- Delivers working functionality incrementally each sprint and makes routine changes to existing code or configuration to meet approved requirements.
- Performs basic impact assessments across processes, data, applications, and integrations; identifies and raises design risks or dependencies.
- Partners with the Product Owner and team to confirm that implementation and acceptance tests reflect the intended functionality.
- Demonstrates understanding of Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development practices and applies them with team guidance.
- Uses basic data creation tools, reviews automated test results, and follows established development and test automation practices.
- Supports application implementation, release activities, environment troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions with guidance.
- Takes ownership of assigned deliverables, communicates status and impediments, and completes routine issue resolution in a timely manner.
Guidewire Technical Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of relevant experience in software development, solution engineering, application support, testing, or a related technology field.
- Exposure to Guidewire products, preferably PolicyCenter, through development, configuration, integration, testing, support, training, or implementation work is preferred.
- Basic familiarity with PolicyCenter configuration concepts, including product model, business rules, workflows, user interface components, data model extensions, and validation logic.
- Ability to read and make simple changes to Gosu code, page configuration files, business rules, data model extensions, and basic unit tests with guidance.
- Basic awareness of PolicyCenter integration concepts such as REST services, Guidewire APIs, messaging, events, plugins, batch processes, and enterprise interfaces.
- Basic knowledge of source control, build processes, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and environment support practices.
- Guidewire Cloud, Advanced Product Designer, or Jutro Digital Platform exposure is a plus.
- Basic property and casualty insurance knowledge, including products, coverages, underwriting processes, and common integration touchpoints.
Agile Delivery and Collaboration
- Writes and refines straightforward user stories with clear technical tasks and accurate acceptance criteria; estimates work using relative sizing with team guidance.
- Participates in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, system demos, retrospectives, and Inspect and Adapt activities.
- Commits to team PI objectives and sprint goals, communicates progress and impediments, and owns assigned work items.
- Demonstrates working functionality to Product and Business Owners and supports iteration and PI System Demos.
- Practices continuous exploration, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to support the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps.
- Actively develops T-shaped skills, participates in Communities of Practice, shares knowledge, and contributes ideas for continuous improvement.
- Works effectively across development, testing, product, architecture, and business partners to improve flow and transparency
Requirements
Additional Qualifications
- Strong verbal communication, listening, writing, and collaboration skills; open to feedback and able to communicate basic technical information clearly.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including breaking down low-complexity issues, identifying likely root causes, and proposing a reasonable solution with guidance.
- Ability to collect data and examples, identify meaningful information, and organize the steps needed to address a routine issue.
- Ownership and accountability for individual deliverables, including timely identification and correction of gaps with support when needed.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, shift between assigned tasks, and maintain focus on team priorities.
- Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming, declarative concepts, defensive coding, error handling, version control, relational databases, SQL, and integrated development environments.
- Basic understanding of applications within the assigned domain and the flow of data between internal and external systems.
- Basic knowledge of insurance concepts, terminology, products, and business processes.
- Willingness to learn, share knowledge, participate in Communities of Practice, and develop broader cross-functional skills.
Education and Certification Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required; bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field preferred.
- Guidewire training or foundational certification is preferred or expected based on assignment needs.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package:
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Career development and training opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)
- Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group
- Private Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Training & Development
Note: Benefits differ based on employee level.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group €22.5 billion in revenues in 2023.