Senior Guidewire Developer BillingCenter

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Kemper is one of the nations leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kempers products and services are making a real difference to our customers who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

Kemper is seeking a Senior Guidewire BillingCenter Developer. This role provides leadership for multiple areas within BillingCenter and the associated integrations.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provides technical support for multiple BillingCenter functions and integrations.
• Develops documents and executes unit test cases.
• Delivers quality and timely results.
• Owns and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes.
• Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and end to end test coverage.
• Complies with and supports all corporate department and team policies and procedures.
• Keeps manager project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Ensure reviews for quality (accurate and complete) of application software designs are scheduled and conducted to ensure optimal use of software systems.
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies within areas of expertise to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
• Leads projects across technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
• Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IT projects teams for multiple scopes.
• Researches evaluates and recommends new technologies independently or with the architects implementation.
• Implement and support proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
• Develops and obtains sign offs on technical specs design documents functional designs and requirements.
• Guide teams on long term solutions for resolving frequently occurring production problems and reducing defect leakage.
• Ensure code is being developed per standards with focus on maintainability and ensure unit test cases are being developed documented and executed with the test results recorded. Ensure that the technical design presented by the architects is followed by the software development staff.
• Ensure batch cycles are being executed according to plan and that defects are resolved in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Lead team in successful completion of phase gates for projects.

Position Qualifications:

• 8 years of developer experience
• Bachelors degree equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• 5 years extensive experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite
• 3 recent years of ongoing BillingCenter experience.
• P&C Non-Standard Auto Insurance experience preferred.
• Experience in technical disciplines such as Java/Spring JavaScript HTML/CSS Angular Hibernate SQL JSON/XML REST Web Services Git/SVN Jenkins Oracle & SQL
• Experience with cloud development practices.
• Advanced certifications for coding/development. Current Guidewire Certified Acepreferred.
• Demonstrates advanced technical skills. Advanced knowledge of a gosu and a good knowledge of related languages.
• The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation development and support projects; Advanced knowledge of program design methods and techniques and standard development tools.
• Use knowledge of new frameworks tools and languages and make recommendations in applications as appropriate.
• Ability to understand and identify improvement areas in architecture and integration designs
• Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals.
• Demonstrates excellent leadership qualities in managing the work of a team of professional employees.
• Able to follow and create best practice development standards.
• Worked with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall).
• Able to translate business to technical requirements.
• Requires minimal managerial direction.
• Understands technical controls security concepts and SOX requirements.
• This role is eligible for remote work in the US.

The range for this position is $86200 to $143600. When determining candidate offers we consider experience skills education certifications and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical Dental Vision PTO 401k etc.)

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Kemper will never request personal information such as your social security number or banking information via text or email. Additionally Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message delete it.

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