Senior Consultant Developer (Software Developer) Consultant - Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group

Guidewire; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 84,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Company retirement plan

Annual bonus plan

Job summary

Guidewire is seeking a Senior Solution Consultant to shape how customers adopt Guidewire Cloud capabilities. You will bridge business needs with technical solutions, mentor junior consultants, and provide enablement support.

You’ll lead initiatives across the technology stack, engage with customers to capture requirements, and own delivery from design to implementation in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in tech consulting, solution development, or P&C delivery.
• Hands-on full-stack development with CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing.
• Experience mentoring teammates and contributing to design docs.

Responsibilities

• Prototype, validate, and deliver Guidewire Cloud features in real-world environments.
• Capture use cases, requirements, and validate solutions with customers.
• Own full tech stack including backend and frontend development.
• Provide feedback to Solution Architects and Product Development.
• Act as trusted partner to customers during transformation journeys.
• Lead functional/integration workstreams with ownership of design, delivery and quality.
• Mentor junior consultants on Guidewire methodology and delivery.
• Design and estimate solutions for medium-complexity gaps with stakeholders.

Skills

Tech consulting

P&C insurance

Guidewire implementation

Full-stack development

Mentoring teammates

Tools

CI/CD

DevOps

Automated testing

Packaging

Job description

Summary Organization

Industry Innovation & Co-Development Group (InnoCoDev) This team will operate as a dedicated strategic function within Professional Services, working closely with Product Development, Sales, and Customer Success. Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of industry-wide solutions through strategic co-development partnerships with key customers. This initiative will establish a SWAT team within Professional Services to identify, cultivate, and operationalize these partnerships, demonstrating Guidewire Professional Services’ unique value proposition and capturing premium service opportunities.

Role Overview

As a Senior Solution Consultant, you’ll work at the intersection of technology and customer adoption, taking a lead role in shaping how customers adopt Guidewire Cloud capabilities. You’ll help ensure customers succeed by bridging business needs with solutions, mentoring junior consultants, and providing enablement support.

Key Responsibilities

• Prototype, validate, and deliver innovative Guidewire Cloud features in real-world customer environments.
• Work directly with customers to capture use cases, requirements and validate solutions.
• Take ownership across the full technology stack, including backend and frontend development.
• Provide feedback loops to Solution Architects and Product Development for continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted partner to customers during their transformation journey.
• Lead functional and integration workstreams on customer engagements, taking full ownership for design, delivery, and quality.
• Mentor and coach junior consultants on Guidewire methodology, best practices, and technical delivery.
• Design and estimate solutions for medium-complexity product gaps and enhancements, consulting with business and technical stakeholders to produce design documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technology consulting, solution development, or P&C insurance delivery, including at least 1 year of hands-on Guidewire implementation experience.
• Hands-on full-stack development experience, including modern software engineering practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and packaging.
• Proven experience mentoring and assisting teammates, and contributing meaningfully to requirement and functional design documentation.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills with both business and technical audiences, including project leadership stakeholders.
• Experience translating requirements into actionable solution designs, and working software.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately estimate and deliver project tasks with minimal guidance.
• Ability to balance consulting finesse with technical competency.
• Curious, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.
• Nice to have: Guidewire Ace certification, and experience leading a functional/integration area or contributing to Inception-phase design activities on an implementation project.

Culture Fit

• Consulting versatility, communication skills, and industry empathy.
• Ownership mindset: delivery, quality, cost, scope, timeline.
• Cultural fit with InnoCoDev: empowerment, accountability, transparency, agility, risk-taking.
• Demonstrated mentorship mindset — invests in the growth of junior team members and role-models Guidewire best practices.

Salary

The Canadian CAD base salary range for this full-time position is 84,000.00 - 105,000.00. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors.

Benefits

All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire. As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at [e-mail], our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.

We’re an extraordinary blend of hungry self-starters, intrepid explorers, brainy experts, and loyal allies. Combine all of this, and we make a glorious success story, loaded with down-to-earth, helpful, and passionate people, all on the journey of cloud innovation and best in class technology. Guidewire’s an adventure—and it’s yours for the taking. At Guidewire, we are utterly committed to customer success. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service to the P&C Insurance industry. And with the largest R&D team, services team, and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continually evolve and innovate to meet our customers’ needs. We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness that our people never want to lose. And we each bring a little quirkiness—and a little genius—to the table. As the landscape of our industry continues to shift, we respond with flexibility and skill. We’re braving uncharted territory, pushing past the conventional with our products, partners, and people.