We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic individual to join our Guidewire ClaimCenter development team.
What part will you play If youre looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference youve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities and youll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problemsolvers. Were always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential we can help others reach theirs.
The opportunity:
Joining a department that is friendly and fast paced you will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Guidewire platform.
You will use agile and lean methods and be a creative problemsolver as part of a crossfunctional team caring deeply about writing good code and constantly strive to enhance the user experience possessing a strong desire to keep up to date with the latest development techniques.
You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Guidewire platform to the requirements of the awardwinning International Claims department whist maintaining compliance with Markel and regulatory
standards.
What youll be doing:
- Customizing Claim Centre: Writing code to add features that arent available through configuration
- Integrating with other systems: Developing integrations between Claims Centre and other systems such as PAS document management systems and thirdparty data providers
- Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and fixing technical issues
- Monitoring the Claims Centre platform including but not limited to
- Identifying requirements for specific alerts
- Creating alerts for events and thresholds
- Accessing Datadog logs and dashboards for error analysis
- Monitoring DXC downtime and communicating to users
- You will play a pivotal role in updating the platform including but not limited to
- Performing a 3way merge of the updated code
- Validating the updated version
- Adopting new features added in the update
- Gathering requirements: Working with clients to understand their business needs
- Designing solutions: Translating business needs into functional specifications and design documents
- Collaborates within their Scrum team colleagues (and wider Software Engineering team) to provide Markel with a world class Software Engineering capability
- Produces high quality IT solutions and services against agreed designs and standards
- Ensure that the appropriate technology and level of complexity is used when delivering solutions
- Using tools to deliver & maintain a high standard of code quality and appropriate documentation
- Takes ownership to investigate and resolve service functionality related issues when necessary
Our musthaves:
- Guidewire development experience (ClaimCenter preferred)
- Experience of coding RESTful APIs
- Experience of coding in multiple programming languages such as C# Java Python etc
- Experience with relational databases and SQL MS SQL Server & Transact SQL proficiency preferred
- Experience supporting business database applications
- Familiarity with design thinking and customer centric design
- DevOps CI/CD test automation and cloud deployment
- Experience gained in insurance claims or insurance claims related business or other regulated entity
Who we are:
Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries is a holding company for insurance reinsurance specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
Were all about people We win together We strive for better We enjoy the everyday We think further
Whats in it for you
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Fantastic company pension scheme private medical and dental cover life assurance travel insurance cover income protection season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
- There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!
Are you ready to play your part
Choose Apply Now to fill out our short application so that we can find out more about you.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
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