Guidewire Policycenter Senior Developer

Initialize IT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent IT consultancy is seeking a Senior Developer specializing in Guidewire PolicyCenter for a hybrid role in London. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Guidewire's functionalities, including API integrations and performance optimization. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, overseeing the development process, and ensuring adherence to coding standards. The position offers a competitive compensation of £409 per day for a 6-month contract starting on January 20, 2026.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Strong understanding of PolicyCenter data model and business processes.
• Hands-on experience with Gosu programming and API integrations.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize PolicyCenter performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team to clarify requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Participate in testing automation and release management.
• Review design documents and drive development sessions.

Skills

PolicyCenter knowledge

Gosu programming

Guidewire Integration mechanisms

REST API integration

Database knowledge

Performance optimization

Guidewire best practices

Business domain understanding

Testing automation

Development oversight

Tools

SonarQube

Jacoca

Job description

Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Developer - London/hybrid - 6 months - £409 - starting 20/1/26

Skills/experience

Extensive experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter

1. Core Guidewire Knowledge (PolicyCenter)

• Strong understanding of PolicyCenter data model and business processes.
• Hands-on experience with Gosu programming (inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling).
• Deep knowledge of APD, Product Model, Job Lifecycle, and Policy Transactions (new business, renewal, endorsement, cancellation) and PMT tool
• Expertise in Configuring PolicyCenter (typelists, entities, PCFs, workflows, rules engine).

2. Guidewire Integration Expertise

• Experience with Guidewire Integration mechanisms (Messaging, Web Services, Plugins, Batch Processes).
• Working knowledge of GX Model & Edge APIs,.
• Hands-on experience integrating with external systems using REST.
• Understanding of event-driven processing (messaging triggers).

3. Database Knowledge

• Experience working with Guidewire Data Model and database schema.
• Support the creation a data feed from Guidewire PolicyCenter V10/V9 and Cloud (nice to have)

4. Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting

• Ability to profile and debug PolicyCenter performance issues.
• Understanding of caching strategies, efficient querying, and memory management.

5. Guidewire Best Practices

• Knowledge of Guidewire coding standards & best practices for customization and maintainability.
• Knowledge of SonarQube, Jacoca

6. Business Knowledge & Communication

• Understanding of insurance domain concepts (policy life cycle, underwriting, renewals).
• Ability to understand requirements, collaborate with business analysts, and provide technical solutions.
• Ability to work with PO, BA and other squad team to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies

7. Testing

• Understanding of testing automation like GUnits and other as well

8. Release management

• Understanding of Code build-deploy, environments (time travel, NFT), support release deployment and knows Sequence of events involved from Guidewire perspective

9. Thought leadership

• Participate in solution discussion with Cognizant Guidewire CoE in proposal technical responses
• Contributes towards continuous improvements and Guidewire new features
• Knowledge and experience of handling Implementation, Upgrade, Migration projects
• Worked on Guidewire Cloud platform (nice to have)

10. Development Lead

• Review design document created by developers and signoff on design solution
• Reviews User story estimations done by developers
• Drives technical solution sessions for Sprint User stories from Configuration and Integration perspective
• Analyses technical dependencies between various squads, captures and help resolve the technical issues
• Provides inputs to PO to plan future sprint user stories
• Guides developers in leveraging Out of box Guidewire functionality and any decisions on custom solutions
• Peer review of developed code and provides approval on Pull request raised by developers
• Works with Technical leaders to set technical guidelines and processes for the project
• Participate and provide technical inputs/guidance in defect triage meetings