Senior Application Developer (Guidewire)

UPS; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

UPS seeks a Senior Application Developer in Chennai, India, to design and support Guidewire applications within AWS. The role involves enhancing components, building integrations, and optimizing application performance. Candidates should have 6–9 years of development experience, strong Guidewire, Java/J2EE, and SQL Server skills, as well as familiarity with AWS and CI/CD tools. This is a permanent position offering a collaborative work environment that supports Agile practices.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of application development experience required.
• Strong experience with Guidewire Policy and Claim Center.
• Expertise in Java/J2EE and SQL Server is essential.
• Experience in AWS-hosted application environments is necessary.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and automated deployments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Guidewire Policy Center components.
• Build and maintain RESTful services and integrations.
• Implement application configuration and integration enhancements.
• Perform performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Develop applications deployed on EC2/ECS/EKS with RDS.
• Support application logging and monitoring via CloudWatch.
• Optimize application performance in AWS environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on environment issues.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline configurations.
• Participate in build validation and post-production checks.
• Support on-call rotation for production incidents.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and conduct peer reviews.

Skills

Guidewire Policy Center

AWS

Java/J2EE

SQL Server

CI/CD

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Application Developer to design, develop, and support Guidewire applications operating within AWS infrastructure. This role will contribute to solution design, cloud optimization, and application enhancements while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development

• Develop and enhance Guidewire Policy Center components (Gosu, Rules, Plugins, Batch Jobs, PCF, Integrations).
• Build and maintain RESTful services and system integrations.
• Implement application configuration and integration enhancements.
• Perform performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain applications deployed on EC2/ECS/EKS with RDS (SQL Server).
• Support application logging, monitoring, and alerting via CloudWatch.
• Optimize application performance within AWS-hosted environments.
• Work with infrastructure teams to resolve environment-related issues.

DevOps & Release Support

• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline configurations.
• Participate in build validation, deployments, and post-production checks.
• Support on‑call rotation for production incidents.

Collaboration

• Participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Provide effort estimates and support enhancement planning.
• Conduct peer code reviews.

Required Qualifications

• 6–9 years of application development experience.
• Strong experience with Guidewire Policy and claim Center.
• Java/J2EE and SQL Server expertise.
• Experience working in AWS-hosted application environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and automated deployments.

Employee Type

Permanent

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