Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer

Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer - London/hybrid - 6 months - £409 - starting 20/1/26

Skills/experience

Extensive experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter

1. Core Guidewire Knowledge (PolicyCenter)

• Strong understanding of PolicyCenter data model and business processes.
• Hands-on experience with Gosu programming (inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling).
• Deep knowledge of APD, Product Model, Job Lifecycle, and Policy Transactions (new business, renewal, endorsement, cancellation) and PMT tool
• Expertise in Configuring PolicyCenter (typelists, entities, PCFs, workflows, rules engine).

2. Guidewire Integration Expertise

• Experience with Guidewire Integration mechanisms (Messaging, Web Services, Plugins, Batch Processes).
• Working knowledge of GX Model & Edge APIs,.
• Hands-on experience integrating with external systems using REST.
• Understanding of event-driven processing (messaging triggers).

3. Database Knowledge

• Experience working with Guidewire Data Model and database schema.
• Support the creation a data feed from Guidewire PolicyCenter V10/V9 and Cloud (nice to have)

4. Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting

• Ability to profile and debug PolicyCenter performance issues.
• Understanding of caching strategies, efficient querying, and memory management.

5. Guidewire Best Practices

• Knowledge of Guidewire coding standards & best practices for customization and maintainability.
• Knowledge of SonarQube, Jacoca

6. Business Knowledge & Communication

• Understanding of insurance domain concepts (policy life cycle, underwriting, renewals).
• Ability to understand requirements, collaborate with business analysts, and provide technical solutions.
• Ability to work with PO, BA and other squad team to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies

7. Testing

• Understanding of testing automation like GUnits and other as well

8. Release management

• Understanding of Code build-deploy, environments (time travel, NFT), support release deployment and knows Sequence of events involved from Guidewire perspective

9. Thought leadership

• Participate in solution discussion with Cognizant Guidewire CoE in proposal technical responses
• Contributes towards continuous improvements and Guidewire new features
• Knowledge and experience of handling Implementation, Upgrade, Migration projects
• Worked on Guidewire Cloud platform (nice to have)

10. Development Lead

• Review design document created by developers and signoff on design solution
• Reviews User story estimations done by developers
• Drives technical solution sessions for Sprint User stories from Configuration and Integration perspective
• Analyses technical dependencies between various squads, captures and help resolve the technical issues
• Provides inputs to PO to plan future sprint user stories
• Guides developers in leveraging Out of box Guidewire functionality and any decisions on custom solutions
• Peer review of developed code and provides approval on Pull request raised by developers
• Works with Technical leaders to set technical guidelines and processes for the project
• Participate and provide technical inputs/guidance in defect triage meetings