Senior Guidewire & Cloud Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

The Hartford; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Office locations

Google ADK AI agents

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Guidewire Software Engineer to design, build, and modernize Claims IT solutions with strong Guidewire, Java, and AWS depth. This role blends core platform engineering with Forward Deployed Engineer responsibilities to accelerate delivery with business teams and drive measurable production outcomes.

Hybrid work schedule with three days in the office (Hartford, CT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Charlotte, NC).

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on Guidewire cloud experience, preferably ClaimCenter implementation.
• Must have Guidewire claims center certification.
• Strong hands-on Java experience building APIs, integrations, and distributed services.
• Strong AWS and/or GCP engineering experience delivering production cloud solutions.
• Experience with event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and secure REST patterns.
• Proficiency in automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Experience in observability, logging, and production operations support.
• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance Guidewire ClaimCenter workflows, rules, and integrations for claims operations.
• Build resilient Java APIs and backend services for high-volume claims processing with AWS cloud services.
• Own end-to-end engineering delivery: design, build, test automation, release, and production support.
• Implement CI/CD, code quality gates, observability, and engineering standards across services.
• Collaborate with product owners, claims SMEs, architects, and operations to translate goals into solutions.
• Lead incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions.
• Mentor engineers through architecture reviews and delivery best practices.
• Partner with business and operations stakeholders to map workflows to deployable capabilities.
• Run discovery workshops to identify high-value use cases and MVP scope.
• Prototype, validate with end users, and productionize successful patterns into platform services.
• Embed with cross-functional teams during critical releases to unblock dependencies.
• Build onboarding guides and playbooks to improve adoption across claims teams, track outcomes.
• Act as technical bridge across engineering, business, and support during rollouts.

Skills

Guidewire

Java

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Observability

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Guidewire ClaimCenter

Google ADK

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Senior Staff Guidewire Software Engineer to design, build, and modernize Claims IT solutions with strong Guidewire, Java, and AWS depth. This role blends core platform engineering with Forward Deployed Engineer responsibilities to accelerate delivery with business teams and drive measurable production outcomes.

Hybrid work schedule with three days in the office (Hartford, CT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Charlotte, NC).