Summary

About Guidewire:
Guidewire is expanding its Professional Services team in India with a variety of roles open in our Professional Services center. In professional services, we provide implementation and production services to our customers around the world. We are constantly innovating to accelerate the pace, predictability, and affordability of solutions to help customers adopt the Guidewire platform and applications. We are looking for smart, proactive, and results-oriented Consultants (Java Developers) to join our team in Bangalore.

Role Overview:
As a Consultant 2 you will be at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions and exceptional service to our global clients. This role is designed for individuals who are passionate about technology, eager to enhance their consulting skills, and thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design and Implementation: Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Design, develop, and implement Guidewire software solutions, ensuring they meet client needs and industry standards.Prototyping and Tooling:Innovate and create early versions of tools and features.Optimize methods for efficient production and refine solutions based on feedback and testing.Mentoring and Continuous Improvement:Mentor junior team members and guide them in developing advanced skills.Lead and promote continuous improvement initiatives within the team.Marketplace and Upgrade Delivery:Work with the Marketplace team to develop new solutions and improve delivery processes.Innovate new ways of working to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Upgrade and Marketplace delivery.Product Expertise: Learn and master your assigned Guidewire product and pass the required Guidewire certification as a Subject matter expert within the expected timeframe.

Technical & Functional Consultant skills:

Development: Customize Guidewire applications by writing code (typically in Gosu, a language used by Guidewire) for features that cannot be achieved through out-of-the-box configuration.Integration: Develop and implement integrations between Guidewire InsuranceSuite and other enterprise systems like CRM, document management systems, or third-party data providers via Cloud services such as Integration Gateway leveraging Apache Camel and RESTful APIs. Utilize the Guidewire Cloud Platform tools for building the Policy, Claims, and Billing systems of tomorrow.Data Migration: Develop scripts and tools to migrate data from legacy systems to Guidewire Customers Cloud solutionsPerformance Tuning: Optimize the performance of the Guidewire applications to ensure they run efficiently at scale.Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve technical issues encountered during implementation or post-go-live support.Requirement Gathering: Work closely with the client to understand their business processes, requirements, and objectives.Solution Design: Translate business requirements into functional specifications and design documents for the InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter and ContactManager).Configuration: Use Guidewire’s configuration tools such as Studio IDE based on IntelliJ to customize entity models, business rules, workflows, and user interfaces.

Required Skills/Experience:

2-5 years of hands-on experience with Object-Oriented programming (preferably Java), relational databases (data modeling/SQL), web UI (design and development), and XML.Proficiency in Guidewire Cloud products OR another Insurance Industry Enterprise softwareStrong consulting skills as outlined in the GSC Consulting Competency Framework, including problem-solving, communication proficiency, and knowledge contribution.Experience with Gosu, Apache Camel, JSON, RESTful APIs, Camunda Workflow, GIT, PR reviews, IntelliJ, and React.Ability to work independently and within a team.Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers).BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.