IND Lead Associate/Engineer Guidewire

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Job Description: Lead Software Engineer  

Location: Hyderabad, India 

Employment Type: Full-Time 

Experience: 4-6+ years 

About The Company 

We are leader in property and casualty insurance, employee benefits and mutual funds. One of the largest insurers in the United States with many decades of expertise, this company is widely recognized for its service excellence, sustainability practices, trust and integrity. 

Position Overview 

We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced, and results-driven Staff Software Engineer to join our technology team based in Hyderabad, India. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of P&C insurance domain processes and lead design and development of technology solutions to address Small Business needs. This position requires close interaction and collaboration with Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Technical Leads, vendor partners (both onsite and offshore), and other application development teams. Familiarity with working in Agile development environments is highly desirable. 

Key Responsibilities 

Design, develop, test and deliver high quality code supporting solutions that are scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and easily maintainable. 

Lead scope estimation activities and design discussions. 

Provide technical leadership in Scrum Teams by enforcing the vision of the application architecture and safeguard the integrity of the application environment, in alliance with architects and other technical leads 

Develop and prototype high impact innovations, catering to changing business needs, by leveraging Cloud and Big Data technologies.  Present innovative ideas to leadership and contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate team capabilities. 

Design and deliver business solutions using state-of-the-art technical frameworks, web and database technologies. 

Proactively address technical issues and risks that could impact project schedule, budget and/or integrity of the application environment. 

Ability to provide concise, transparent communications about potential risks, mitigations and business impacts in a timely manner. 

Provide technical leadership within and across Scrum Teams by enforcing the vision of the application architecture and safeguarding the integrity of the application environment, in alliance with architects and other technical leads. 

Function as the go-to technical leader for the software applications supported, requiring depth and breadth of knowledge in technologies, applications, integration, interfaces and business domain 

Understand and implement the overall technical vision for projects, programs, or systems, keeping in mind cross-functional impacts, integration across the organization and architecture rationalization 

Collaboration with teams to identify opportunities for integration across tools used in the life cycle, including agile, test automation, platform configuration management, and drive efficiencies. 

Mentor team members (including Sourcing Partners), fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence. 

Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment 

Support department development and pipeline tool decisions. 

Accountable for Software engineering practices e.g. Source code management, branching, issue tracking etc., followed for the product 

Troubleshoot complex issues across software and infrastructure layers, ensuring high availability and performance. 

Automate disaster recovery, high availability, and fault tolerance strategies using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native tooling. 

Lead the standardization and implementation of reusable architecture and deployment patterns for AWS-hosted applications. 

Engineer applications with best practices for fault tolerance, data replication, and multi-region support. 

Own end-to-end solution delivery—including design, development, and maintenance. 

Required Skills & Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. 

6+ years of experience in solution design and software development activities, including: 

Designing and developing scalable, secure, and resilient systems. 

Hands-on experience in Guidewire PolicyCenter Integration, Configuration, EDGE API Framework, as well as Guidewire Digital application development 

Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring integrations, JPA 

Experience in building APIs/Web Services (SOAP and Rest) and working with ESB/integration technologies/API gateways such as IBM APIC. 

Experience creating APIs with XML/JSON data structure 

Strong working experience as Designer/Developer of REST API, SOAP Web services, both as consumer & provider 

Proficiency with relational databases such as Oracle, and familiarity with open-source databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL). 

Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Rally, SonarQube, Liquibase, AWS CodeBuild, etc. 

Software architecture and systems design, with a solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native patterns. 

Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across technical and business teams. 

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK. 

Experience in software architecture and systems design, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native patterns  

Deep understanding of AWS services including Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and others. 

Strong analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to evaluate technology trade-offs and deliver customer-centric solutions. 

Demonstrated experience working with Agile methodology 

Nice to Have  

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred. 

Ability to write automation scripts and tools to eliminate manual processes and improve operational efficiency. 

Familiarity with Agentic AI systems and orchestration frameworks for building autonomous agents that interact with users and systems. 

Understanding responsible AI practices, including model evaluation, bias mitigation, and governance. 

Ability to identify AI use cases and lead cross-functional teams in integrating GenAI into enterprise applications and workflows. 

Experience designing and deploying solutions using Generative AI (GenAI) technologies, including large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). 

Knowledge of P&C (Property & Casualty) Insurance is a plus. 

What We Offer 

Collaborative work culture with Agile methodologies. 

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. 

Continuous learning and career advancement opportunities 

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