Guidewire Developer

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Customer

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Description & Summary

PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC).  SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions. 

PwC's ambition to grow through acquisitions and development of new innovative ways to serve clients, mandatory firm rotation, the ongoing climate of regulatory change, and the increased focus on globalisation all mean that PwC's ability to maintain Independence from our audit clients is ever more business critical for PwC. 

The Guidewire team has a vital role to play in enabling PwC's growth, whilst protecting our reputation and brand, and the team will be at the heart of change in the firm over the next few years.  

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.  

Why join PwC?

We have tasted the fruit of our success and exciting changes are afoot here at PwC as we seek to take on board an entire new team of Guidewire Developers as we embark on an era of digital innovation and transformation.

About the Role

We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. As a Guidewire Developer you will be responsible for participating in business requirements, review meetings and providing design & solutions on user stories to be implemented on Guidewire projects.

Estimate the development effort during sprint planning meetings (Configuration and Integration story cards and design, develop, unit test and document for new and existing software solutions as per requirements).

What will you do?

Lead Developer

• Provide Technical Guidance: Lead developers provide direction and mentorship to software engineers.Ensure coding standards, track project development, and optimize software quality.

• Provide Mentoring: They mentor junior team members and guide their growth.

• Develop software solutions that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices.

• Create test data and unit tests to ensure that software solutions meet requirements.

• Perform defect triage and fixes during System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.

• Ensure non-functional, security, regulatory and compliance requirements are met for all development activities.

• Participate in code reviews and assist in resolution of technical issues.

• Prepare and produce software releases.

• Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective.

• Lead POC to support new opportunities.

• Guide and mentor junior developers.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes.

What are we looking for?

Lead Developer

• 10 plus years software development experience

• 5 years Experience in Insurance domain, preferably in Property & Casualty / General Insurance.

• 5 years Working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portals) Configuration/Integration.

• 5 years Experience working with GOSU, JAVA 5/ J2EE, Web Services (Axis 2), XML, SQL, Gradle, Spring, Hibernate, Castor, REST/ JSON and Enterprise Messaging System.

• Experience in using Configuration management tools like Git, Tortoise SVN, Source Tree, Perforce, Plastic and ticket management tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, HPQC.

• Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes will be an added advantage.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

What is nice to have?

• Prior client facing and design experience

• Azure/AWS Cloud experience

• Expertise in Product Designer / Rating integration will be an added advantage.

• Guidewire Certification on latest version

What’s in it for you?

We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. As a PwC employee you will be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations.

Fully funded by us, you'll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in. 

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various others as part of your employment.

• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)

• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package

• Flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family's) needs.

• Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

To find out more please click the link below

https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/reward.html

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Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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