Guidewire Configuration Developer – Senior Consultant

Summary

Professional Services at Guidewire partners with leading P&C insurers worldwide to design, implement, and optimize mission‑critical solutions on our cloud platform. As part of this team, you help customers modernize their core systems, accelerate cloud adoption, and realize measurable business value, in a culture grounded in determination, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will work alongside global colleagues who are deeply committed to customer success and to building an inclusive, growth‑oriented environment.
In this role as a Guidewire Configuration Developer - Senior Consultant, you will lead the design and configuration of complex Guidewire PolicyCenter implementations, acting as a hands-on technical expert and mentor. You will use your Gosu, configuration, and integration expertise to reduce implementation effort and time, support AI‑enabled delivery methods, and ensure robust, scalable solutions for customers—directly contributing to Professional Services’ priorities of revolutionizing services execution, scaling revenue, and embedding AI-powered innovation across projects. Your work will help transform how P&C insurers operate on Guidewire Cloud, advancing our mission to combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to help insurers thrive in a changing world.

Job Description

What you’ll do

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex Guidewire PolicyCenter solutions

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers, fostering their growth and ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure the quality, maintainability, and performance of the codebase.

• Act as a subject matter expert for Guidewire PolicyCenter within the team and organization

• Participate in client-facing discussions, understanding their needs, and providing expert technical advice

Configuration

• Design, develop, and maintain Guidewire PolicyCenter application, tailoring them to meet specific client needs and business requirements.

• Work with Guidewire’s proprietary language (Gosu), Page Configuration File(PCF), , Plugins, Workflow, etc.

• Create new data model elements and extend the existing application's data model with new properties for data persistence.

• Leverage PolicyCenter Biz Rules for developing & managing Activities,Underwriting Rules and Admin data .

• Experience in Conceptualization, Visualization, and Realization phases of product design phase or SBT.

• Use of XMIND and APD app to create Products/LOBS

• Develop a thorough understanding of the PolicyCenter data model to effectively manage and transform data within the system.

• Configure product models, lines of business, and UI elements based on client needs.

Integration

• Establish seamless connections between PolicyCenter and other internal and external systems (e.g., third-party vendors, policy administration systems, digital portals, etc ) using various integration methods like SOAP/REST web services, batch processes, message queues, and event messaging.

• Develop and test integration interfaces to ensure data consistency and accuracy across integrated systems.

• Perform comprehensive unit testing and develop GUnit tests for custom code, aiming for maximum coverage.

• Understand and analyze integration requirements, propose solutions, and estimate effort.

Collaboration & Teamwork

• Collaborate with BAs, PMs, QA, and other developers to understand requirements, plan deliverables, and deliver robust solutions.

• Effectively engage in team meetings to discuss project progress, challenges, and solutions

• Lead the estimation and prioritization of sprint backlog items, ensuring alignment with project goals and efficient resource utilization.

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code by adhering to Guidewire coding standards and guidelines, and contribute to the development of best practices.

• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including design specifications, integration guides, and deployment procedures.

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you’ll bring

Required

• 6 to 8 years of hands-on experience working with Guidewire PolicyCenter.

• Ace certification in Guidewire PolicyCenter would be preferred.

• Experience with Gosu, PCF, Entities, Typelists, Apache Camel, RESTful API’s, Bitbucket & IntelliJ

• Experience working on APD, Rating engine, Integration gateway

• In-depth understanding of the Guidewire platform, its components (UI, Data Model, Studio), out-of-the-box features, and accelerators; and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to diagnose and address technical problems and ensure the smooth operation of the PolicyCenter application

• Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers).

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

• Experience with Guidewire Cloud is preferred.

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

• Experience with Guidewire Cloud implementations, migrations, or upgrades, including exposure to cloud-native architectures and operations.

• Background in Professional Services or consulting environments, including experience working with or alongside system integrator (SI) partners and co-delivery models that support Guidewire’s Professional Services priorities.

• Familiarity with integration gateway patterns, event-driven architectures, message queues, and best practices for secure, resilient integrations.

• Experience working with P&C insurance domain concepts across policy, billing, and claims.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first months, you will immerse yourself in an active PolicyCenter implementation, take ownership of specific product configuration and integration workstreams, and lead technical design discussions with both Guidewire and customer teams to ensure solutions are aligned, scalable, and cloud-ready. As you progress, you will help Professional Services advance its FY26 priorities by applying AI-enabled methods, reusable accelerators, and automation to cut implementation effort and time, improve delivery quality, and support broader cloud and AI adoption across Guidewire’s customer base. Over time, your designs, code, and mentorship will shape how insurers run their businesses on our platform and how Guidewire fulfills its mission to transform the way the world’s P&C insurers do business through digital, core, analytics, and AI innovation. 

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.