Product Engineer- Guidewire PolicyCenter Rating

Allstate Canada; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Canada is seeking a Product Engineer specializing in Guidewire PolicyCenter Rating to join their innovative team. The role involves leading Guidewire implementations, ensuring alignment with company objectives, and supporting the ongoing Guidewire Cloud transformation program. This position offers a hybrid work environment and a commitment to employee development and community engagement.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Employee discounts on insurance

Good Office program reimbursement

Student Loan Payment Matching Program

Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program

Annual Wellness allowance

Personal reflection day

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Must have Guidewire Developer PolicyCenter Ace Certification.
• Experience in Canadian P&C personal lines insurance.

Responsibilities

• Support teams in designing and developing Rating implementation.
• Lead Guidewire engagements and ensure successful execution.
• Provide technical documentation and guidance on platform capabilities.

Skills

Guidewire Rating

Java

Gosu

ReactJS

Python

Cloud Technologies

Agile Methodology

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering

Job description

Product Engineer- Guidewire PolicyCenter Rating

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At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

Who is Allstate:

Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. The company is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years and prioritizes supporting employees and fostering an inclusive, welcoming corporate culture. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its "You’re in Good Hands" promise.

Through our Employee Value Proposition, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.

Role Designation: Hybrid (1-2 days in office)

Benefits To Joining Allstate

• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)
• Good Office program (receive up to 400$ back after purchasing office equipment)
• Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans
• Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions
• Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing
• Personal reflection day
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Working within the community and giving back!

Job description:

Our team is growing and we are actively looking to hire a motivated, Product Engineer to support our ongoing Guidewire Cloud transformation program. Experienced professionals with competency and knowledge in Guidewire Rating implementations are being sought.

For Guidewire PolicyCenter Rating Product, the Product Engineer will support the Managing Engineer on larger Guidewire engagements, leading team members, ensuring successful execution, alignment with company objectives, and coordination across teams. The Product Engineer will execute and report on delivery assurance, delivery transformation and workforce transformation ideas.

Your primary responsibility will be to support teams in designing and developing Rating implementation and you will be accountable for defining hypotheses and value metrics upfront for Managing Engineer and ACG leadership to take informed and prompt decisions. Although your focus will be on building the Rating Product, it will be important for you to have solid platform knowledge and familiarity with the other systems of record, Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter and ClaimCenter. You will be expected to leverage best practices and tools to create efficient, reliable, scalable and engaging code.

Accountabilities:

• Expert in Guidewire with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools).
• Demonstrates extensive abilities and a proven record of success in leading and delivering projects related to Guidewire PolicyCenter in the area of systems configurations and customizations.
• Deeply involved in developing Guidewire cloud concepts to support cloud platform/applications that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services.
• Hands on experience in areas of: Gosu, Guidewire Rating, PCFs, Business Rules, Underwriting Rules and Guidewire Event, Messaging/Rules Framework, Guidewire Integration Framework - Cloud APIs, App Events and Guidewire, Integration Gateway, Guidewire Workflows, Guidewire Advanced Product Designer, Spring Boot Application Development
• Coaches and influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality.
• Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members and evaluates competencies, skills, and impact of product team engineers.
• Coaches for design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools.
• Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management.
• Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
• Provides technical documentation, guidance, and support on platform capabilities.
• Plans, maintains, develops, and deploys highly complex platform software to ensure software is developed correctly for hardware systems and device platform standards.
• Develops and implements platform plans and processes and communicates progress status with stakeholders.
• Automates preventive and corrective routines and procedures for platform maintenance and determines, monitors, and enhances performance metrics.
• Encourages outcome-based technology innovation and invention in partnership with stakeholders.
• Replicates enterprise best practices and standards and explores ways to enhance the effectiveness of current systems and processes; oversees corrective actions until closure.
• Partners with stakeholders on the implementation of organizational process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent
• Overall, 12+ years of IT experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter. Proven experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter Rating implementation.
• Must have Guidewire Developer PolicyCenter Ace Certification
• Hands-on development proficiency in one of: Java, Gosu, ReactJS, C++, Python or one of these derivatives
• Proven experience in Canadian P&C personal lines insurance
• Strong communication skills required
• Experience in ensuring ITSM ITIL Practices are followed such as Incident management, Problem Management, Change Management
• Should be able to drive discussions and take design level decisions and recommend best practices, finds comfort in modern computing techniques inclusive of TDD, CI/CD, Human-Centered design, code management. Strong bias towards automating any process that repeats
• Experience in enterprise Agile methodology. Strong facilitation and elicitation skills and ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment.
• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes.
• Must be willing to drive and work in production support model and ensure application is up and available to meet company goals and customer expectations.

Bonus qualification:

• Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Additional Skills: Familiarity with additional scripting languages (Python, JAVA) and automation tools. Knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) and analytics platforms.

Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.

Good Hands. Greater Together.