FIT - Guidewire BC Configuration - Associate

A career within Functional and Industry Technologies services will provide you with the opportunity to build secure and new digital experiences for customers, employees, and suppliers. We focus on improving apps or developing new apps for traditional and mobile devices as well as conducting usability testing to find ways to improve our clients’ user experience. As part of our team, you’ll help clients harness technology systems in financial services focusing on areas such as insurance, sales performance management, retirement and pension, asset management, and banking & capital markets.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fts into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use refection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specifc PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

The Opportunity

When you join PwC Acceleration Centers (ACs), you step into a pivotal role focused on actively supporting various Acceleration Center services, from Advisory to Assurance, Tax and Business Services. In our innovative hubs, you’ll engage in challenging projects and provide distinctive services to support client engagements through enhanced quality and innovation. You’ll also participate in dynamic and digitally enabled training that is designed to grow your technical and professional skills.

As part of the Guidewire Developer team you utilize Java and related technologies to support configuration development. As an Associate, you focus on learning and contributing to client engagement and projects while developing your skills and knowledge to deliver quality work. You are exposed to clients to learn how to build meaningful client connections, manage and inspire others, and grow your personal brand by enhancing your technical knowledge of firm services and technology resources. You participate in projects related to systems configurations within the Insurance industry, leveraging tools like the Guidewire studio toolkit and object-oriented programming.

Responsibilities

• Support sprint planning and collaborate with other teams from different locations and client.
• Analyze client requirements.
• Review estimates and suggest updates.
• Complete design and develop accordingly in a timely fashion.
• Guide the team on tasks.
• Perform design and code review.
• Support testing and client queries.
• Interface and communicate with the onsite team.
• Participate in scrum calls and provide status reports.
• Take part in CoE activities, trainings, recruitments as required and interested.
  
  

What You Must Have

• Bachelors Degree
• 2+ year of experience
• Java
• Oral and written proficiency in English required
  
  

What Sets You Apart

• Hands-on experience in Guidewire products BillingCenter.
• Well versed in one of the streams – Configuration.
• Strong knowledge in Guidewire platform (Gosu scripting / UI / Data Model)
• Good knowledge in Webservices, XML and ant script.
• Experience on any database Oracle / SQL Server and well versed in SQL.
• Exposure to SCM tool such as GIT, TFS, SVN, etc.
• Good knowledge of any servers / containers such as Tomcat / JBoss / Websphere.
• Exposure to cloud technolgies such as AWS, Azure.
• Good written and oral communication.
• Excellent analytical skill.
• Experience in Agile SCRUM or SAFe methodology.
• Insurance domain knowledge.
• Sound knowledge in software architecture and design patterns.
• Must have estimation, team leading, code review and mentoring skills.
• At least two Guidewire implementations.
• Good estimation skills.
• Good to have skills: MuleSoft, Spring / Hibernate.

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