Senior Consultant (Front-End), Digital (Bengaluru)

Summary - Guidewires Services Centre was established to help meet a growing global customer demand for expertise in implementing Guidewires products, currently being used by customers who are household names globally. - Guidewire is seeking a number of highly motivated Digital front-end implementation consultants that are looking to work with current, leading-edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects. - Guidewires market-leading Digital products enable insurance carriers to build and implement leading-edge sales and self-service digital capabilities. These capabilities provide Agents and Policy Holders interfaces to quickly and easily create and service insurance policies. - Each new member of the team will undergo Guidewire Digital training prior to working on a project. Mentors will also be assigned to allow new team members to develop their technical skill and learn the Guidewire SurePath Methodology and Digital Best Practices. Essential Duties: - Learn and master Guidewires Digital products in order to perform implementation and development of our products for technical consulting. - As a Digital consultant, you will be building new, creative user interfaces for the insurance industry using Guidewire Jutro, Guidewires design system and front-end framework. Jutro enables developers to seamlessly develop Guidewire applications for customers and empowers designers to create consistent and cohesive user experience designs. - You will be collaborating with User Experience, Business Analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation teams to deliver end-to-end solutions to the P&C; industry. - You will also advocate for customers to adhere to our powerful Digital out-of-the-box capabilities, ensuring an optimal time-to-market and easier future upgrades to newer versions of our products. - Product Expertise: Learn and master your assigned Guidewire product and pass the required Guidewire certification as a Subject matter expert within the expected timeframe. Technical Skills: - Minimum of 6 years professional experience - 3-5 years of software development experience using web technologies - Highly skilled in JavaScript and React framework - at least 1-2 years of experience with React - Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is required - Experience with or willingness and ability to learn Jutro, Guidewires design system - Appetite to advise Guidewire customers on how to adhere to out-of-the-box Digital capabilities of our Digital products - Experience with HTML, CSS, SASS, and other look-and-feel techpologies - Experience with automated unit testing using Jest/Enzyme or similar frameworks - Exposure to server-side technologies (SON/RPC, REST) - Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment. - Ability to write clean, modular, and well-structured code, ensuring that each component is reusable, maintainable, and easy to understand Other Skills & Requirements: - BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from third-level or higher education institution - Able to demonstrate experience with building web/mobile services and single-page applications - Good knowledge of software development lifecycle (Agile) required - Collaboration with UX designers - Effective communication and collaboration skills and experience interacting with customers in a consulting environment - Highly motivated, result-driven, and tenacious problem solver - Strong English skills - Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers). Nice to have: - Insurance industry experience - Exposure to Invision, sketch, or other UX prototyping tools - Experience migrating AngularJs Applications to React is a distinct advantage. .