Lead Software Engineer - Guidewire PolicyCenter

The Travelers Indemnity Company; Redhill; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive innovation and enhance technology solutions. This role involves guiding strategic planning and overseeing complex software initiatives while leading a team to improve engineering practices. The company values collaboration and offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance office and remote work effectively. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive culture that encourages professional growth and community involvement. If you are passionate about technology and leadership, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Retirement Contribution

25 Days Holiday Entitlement

Wellness Programme

Volunteer Encouragement

Qualifications

• Extensive programming experience with strong technical leadership skills.
• Ability to create robust software architectures and lead teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and influence engineering practices across teams.
• Oversee design, development, and implementation of software initiatives.

Skills

Programming/Development

Technical Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Guidewire

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Target Openings

2

What Is the Opportunity?

Join us as a Lead Software Engineer as we transition to and implement Guidewire. If you have experience with Guidewire's PolicyCenter and/or ClaimCenter, we want to hear from you! Apply now to be a part of our innovative team and make a significant impact on our technology journey.

Travelers Software Engineering team is dedicated to creating seamless customer experiences through cutting-edge technology solutions. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help us grow and transform our technology landscape.

You will leverage your engineering background to complete expert tasks that span many parts of a system while providing technical leadership to the team on complex business initiatives. Acting as an influential leader, you will help guide strategic planning and oversee the design, development, and implementation of new software initiatives. We offer a unique opportunity to advance your career in an innovative environment with a company that has earned the reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry. Our award-winning culture of collaboration and diversity provides meaningful options for community involvement and will encourage you to learn and grow in ways you never expected.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.

What Will You Do?

• Set technical direction and effectively influence across multiple teams to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.
• Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize meaningful impact.
• Build, maintain, and utilize partnerships ensuring the best use of overall resources.
• Oversee complex analysis, advanced level design, development, analysis, configuration, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting for impactful and high-visibility tasks.
• Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions for software engineering problems.
• Lead a team by providing consistent performance and technical feedback, coaching, and mentorship to foster a team environment and ensure the team’s work complies with Travelers standards, processes, and protocols.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Extensive programming/development experience plus strong prior technical leadership experience.
• Excellent delivery skills with the ability to examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies and methodologies, devise, apply, and share ways to ensure the quality of complex computer systems, and incorporate awareness and understanding of work happening outside of the team.
• Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to consult on business priorities and optimize value by identifying business aligned solutions and improve company capabilities by thoughtfully introducing concepts and technologies from the industry.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to create architecture that is particularly robust against single points of failure and turn future areas of need into action.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document effectively, collaborate across disparate groups, and model and assist others in the practice of mindful communication, active listening, and messaging.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage with other leaders to solve problems as well as work to improve the entire engineering organization by sharing knowledge while creating opportunities for others to develop skills.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience.
• Considerable programming/development experience.
• Prior experience of technical leadership.

What Is in It for You?

• Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction.
• Retirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution.
• Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year.
• Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts, and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.