Kemper · 2 hours ago
Senior Guidewire Developer - BillingCenter
Birmingham, AL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$86K/yr - $144K/yr
8+ years expKemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers, seeking a Senior Guidewire BillingCenter Developer to provide leadership in BillingCenter and its integrations. The role involves technical support, developing test cases, resolving complex issues, and leading projects to improve project deliverables.
ConsumerFinancial ServicesInsurance
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 architect’s 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
Qualification
Required
8 years of developer experience
Bachelor's degree, equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification
5 years extensive experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite
3 recent years of ongoing BillingCenter experience
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
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
Preferred
P&C Non-Standard Auto Insurance experience preferred
Advanced certifications for coding/development. Current Guidewire Certified Ace preferred
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
Company
Kemper
Kemper is a financial organization providing insurance and consumer finance solutions for individuals and small businesses.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2022-02-15Post Ipo Debt· $400M
1996-01-01Acquired
1990-04-27IPO
Leadership Team
Maxwell Mindak
Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
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