Lead Software Engineer - Guidewire

Lead Software Engineer - Guidewire

Hybrid working

Our client, a leading insurance organisation have an exciting role for a Lead Software Engineer with Guidewire experience to join their team on a permanent basis. Are you a forward-thinking engineering leader with a passion for driving innovation, mentoring high-performing teams, and shaping technical direction? Then please get in touch!

Role responsiibilites:

• Set technical direction and effectively influence across multiple teams to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.
• Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize meaningful impact.
• Build, maintain, and utilize partnerships ensuring the best use of overall resources.
• Oversee complex analysis, advanced level design, development, analysis, configuration, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting for impactful and high-visibility tasks.
• Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions for software engineering problems.
• Lead a team by providing consistent performance and technical feedback, coaching, and mentorship to foster and team environment and ensure team’s work complies with standards, processes, and protocols.
• Extensive programming/development experience plus strong prior technical leadership experience.
• Excellent delivery skills with the ability to examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies and methodologies, devise, apply, and share ways to ensure the quality of complex computer systems, and incorporate awareness and understanding of work happening outside of the team.
• Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to consult on business priorities and optimize value by identifying business aligned solutions and improve company capabilities by thoughtfully introducing concepts and technologies from the industry.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to create architecture that is particularly robust against single points of failure and turn future areas of need into action.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document effectively, collaborate across disparate groups, and model and assist others in the practice of mindful communication, active listening, and messaging.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage with other leaders to solve problems as well as work to improve the entire engineering organization by sharing knowledge while creating opportunities for others to develop skills

Skills required:

• Considerable programming/development experience
• Strong Guidewire experience, particularly PolicyCenter and/or Claim Center
• Prior experience of technical leadership.

Lead Software Engineer - Guidewire

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