Senior Developer (Guidewire)

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In-Scope

Permanent Full-time

Work Location: Saskatchewan or Manitoba. This position is eligible for a flexible work arrangement. The successful candidate may work in a hybrid capacity or may be eligible to work fully remote depending on the candidates location.

Closes: Friday Oct 10 2025

The Senior Guidewire Developer is responsible for delivering enterprise-grade software solutions to meet business objectives using the Guidewire Cloud product suite and related integrations. Senior Guidewire Developers consistently deliver high-quality solutions while providing technical leadership and mentorship across teams. They serve as technical experts in delivering complex projects and driving architectural decisions. The position requires mastery of the Guidewire Platform understanding of insurance business processes and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Senior Guidewire Developers strengthen collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders. They provide expert troubleshooting for production incidents and contributes to improving incident response protocols. Participates in standby rotation and/or callback incidents as assigned.

Key Accountabilities

Note: This section is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities other duties and responsibilities may be assigned

Development

Guidewire Development

• Leads both configuration and integration development efforts within the Guidewire Cloud platform setting architectural direction and standards.

• Leads development of insurance applications using advanced GOSU programming techniques and optimizes Guidewires configuration tools for enterprise-scale solutions.

• Evaluates and implements solutions using Guidewire tools and accelerators including Marketplace assets and predefined plugins making strategic decisions to maximize business value.

• Designs and builds complex integrations between Guidewire modules (PolicyCenter BillingCenter ClaimCenter) and external systems establishing integration patterns and frameworks.

• Serves as technical experts for making critical configuration and customization decisions within the Guidewire ecosystem.

• Leads configuration and development activities within each feature/sprint removing impediments and resolving complex technical challenges.

• Establishes and enforces code and configuration review processes to ensure adherence to Guidewire best practices and coding standards

• Identifies and strategically addresses technical debt within applications developing comprehensive remediation plans and implementation strategies.

• Drives security principles across Guidewire implementations evaluating potential vulnerabilities and implementing robust security controls to safeguard sensitive insurance data and ensure regulatory compliance.

• Maintains an advanced understanding of the current best practices and capabilities for development and configuration within the Guidewire platform with the ability to explain the trade offs of customization or configuration. o Develops maintains and/or supports surrounding integrations as required.

Technical Leadership

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship to developers.

• Ensures code quality and best practices are adhered to.

• Understands and contributes to relevant standards and patterns and work to ensure they are followed and understood by others.

• Acts as an escalation point for incidents or coding issues raised by team members.

• Collaborates with other developers architects and principals to establish new patterns.

• Leads the planning and execution of Guidewire product upgrades ensuring that all tasks are completed on time.

Architecture Design

• Ensures alignment with architectural best practices.

• Collaborates with teams to design architecture for new applications and services

• Informs and influences decisions regarding frameworks tools and databases.

• Follows established security protocols and practices to protect applications.

• Performance tunes both back-end and front-end systems.

• Ensures code quality and best practices are adhered to.

Agile Methodology

• Helps establish team agreements standards and conventions.

• Participates in the Agile methodology including being an active participant in all ceremonies and involvement in the entire lifecycle of work items o Collaborates closely with product owners designers and other identified stakeholders.

• Creates updates and completes development work items and assist in backlog prioritization and estimation.

• Ensures improvements identified in sprint retrospectives are implemented.

• Participates in scheduling prioritizing estimating and delivering work items within the teams backlogs.

Troubleshooting & Support

• Identifies and resolves performance and scalability issues.

• Debugs complex issues in a timely and efficient manner.

• Manages and communicates technical debt within applications.

• Merges code continuously adhering to branching and continuous integration processes.

• Deploys and monitors solutions in all environments.

• Documents release notes and activities.

• Performs Problem Management investigation tasks.

• Oversees the incident management process ensuring effective coordination with business stakeholders and partners. Guides the team in conducting root cause analysis and developing actionable solutions.

• Guides other team members through troubleshooting and debugging challenging technical problems beyond their current experience level.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Peer-review expert for code check-ins.

• Creates and maintains automated scripts for functional and non-functional testing.

• Performs manual exploratory and usability testing.

• Execute tests using multiple configurations and automation scripts.

• Creates and executes automated acceptance performance security and load testing.

• Supports code in production including coordinating support escalations.

• Maintain test cases and integration and plan for failure tests.

High Performance Team & Culture

• Supports a culture of leadership and accountability to effectively meet the key accountabilities within the scope of the role.

• Displays leadership by committing to a culture of continuous learning/development of self and supports others by actively sharing knowledge providing guidance mentoring training and supporting developmental opportunities.

• Demonstrates that the Health Safety and Emergency Management Policy is applied in area of responsibility for self and others.

• Actively applies knowledge to support transformation and strategic initiatives of the corporation while participating and advocating change and applying a growth mindset.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced knowledge of agile software development lifecycle methodologies.

• Advanced knowledge of Guidewire Cloud platform architecture and components.

• Advanced knowledge of and skill to work with software languages (e.g. Java GOSU SQL HTML CSS JavaScript) and Guidewire frameworks/tools (e.g. Guidewire Studio Git SOAP/REST APIs Guidewire Page Configuration Files Integration Frameworks).

• Advanced knowledge of concepts in branching merging integrating and versioning within the Guidewire platform.

• Proficient knowledge of DevOps methodologies and principles.

• Proficient skill in security protocols and practices to protect applications.

• Advanced ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Advanced analytical abilities to break down complex technical challenges into manageable components.

• Advanced ability to inform and influence decisions regarding frameworks tools and databases.

• Advanced ability to adapt insurance business processes to be built in the Guidewire platform.

Education and Certifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited post-secondary education institution in a relevant field of study such as Information Technology or defined equivalency.

• A Guidewire Developer Associate certification.

• Working towards or completion of an Ace Certification.

Experience

Three to five (3 5) years of directly related experience in Guidewire software development.

Behavioural Competencies

Leader Level 3 Applies (Team/Dept)

• Accountability - Provides Direction and Sets Expectations

• Business Acumen - Applies Broader Business Metrics and Understands the Internal and External Environment

• Change Agility - Makes Change Real for Others

• Leadership - Leads the Team

Diversity is a cornerstone of SGI. We believe all candidates should be given the opportunity to fully participate during the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process we invite you to submit your accommodation request to and we will work through your request with you. All information received will be kept confidential.

Due to current market demands a temporary market salary supplement is being offered in addition to base salary in the form of an annual lump sum payment based on 12% of range max paid twice a year based on eligibility guidelines.

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