Location: United States - Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Product Development Operations

POSITION OVERVIEW

Guidewire's Customer & Cloud Operations team is a pivotal part of Guidewire's success, has a start-up culture within a global public company, and is growing fast. We use our immense knowledge of Guidewire products (gained through company sponsored training), and our ability to read and write Java and SQL, to delight customers with our problem-solving skills and customer service approach.

At Guidewire, we make software that offers Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance companies the tools to take care of their customers when they need it the most, whether that’s a time of crisis, a natural disaster, an accident, or exposure to cyber risks. We build the core applications that insurance companies use to sell and underwrite policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. We also have a portfolio of innovate products serving the needs of P&C insurance companies in areas such as data management, digital online portals, and predictive analytics. We serve hundreds of insurance providers all over the world, helping them handle billions of dollars of business.

We are proud to be voted a Top Cloud Employer on Glassdoor by our own employees and positioned as a market leader by industry experts like Gartner. We have a fun work environment and a culture that lives by our core values of integrity, rationality, and collegiality.

We’re searching for people who are as passionate about working together to deliver quality products and support as we are. Join us and enjoy a career where you can make an impact. You’ll be inspired by those around you, and you’ll be trusted and empowered to go further.

Guidewire’s CASE team ( C ustomer A pplication S upport E ngineering) is part of the Customer & Cloud Operations (CCO) organization, delivering 24x7 service to customers who are using Guidewire software both on- premise and in the Guidewire Cloud.

As a Senior Application Engineer, you will be part of a team of Application Engineers in a regional “pod” that serves specified Guidewire customers. You will lead and mentor other team members as well as provide expert troubleshooting, problem remediation, system restoration, and root cause analysis for all assigned cases.

This role requires a high degree of independence, ownership and responsibility for customer success. Application Engineers in the CASE team are expected to be highly responsive and resourceful to manage customer production issues in a timely manner. The successful candidate will be skilled developing and maintaining professional relationships with peers as well as colleagues across departments and geographic locations. Senior Application Engineers are expected to provide technical leadership and mentorship to more junior members of the pod. They will also provide detailed cloud-hosted production system support expertise, general architecture best practices awareness and guidance, and should be willing to expand their team leadership capability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Case Resolution

• Research, respond to and accurately resolve cases of moderate to high complexity, in a timely manner and in accordance with CASE team standards
• Function as primary customer contact for all assigned support cases, meeting Guidewire’s contractual and internal goals for initial response and subsequent customer communication
• Provide expert solutions to customer problems to ensure customer satisfaction
• Write thorough and detailed case documentation to meet objectives for Case Quality and Customer Satisfaction scores
• Proactively take ownership and responsibility for support cases where and when required
• Escalate customer issues to the CASE Manager as appropriate
• Participate in team projects that enhance the quality or efficiency of support
• Participate in after-hours weekend deployments and on-call support as needed

Knowledge Management

• Develop and maintain deep knowledge of Guidewire’s products, achieving Professional-level certification in at least one product area
• Contribute to an environment that encourages information sharing, team-based resolution activity, cross training and an absolute focus on doing what is best for the customer
• Create knowledgebase articles and other informational documents to be shared with customers and teammates
• Contribute to a team environment that will have both local and remote leadership

Customer Management

• Partner with Guidewire delivery teams to understand each customer’s business objectives and integration requirements, and rationalize those against established best practices you learn through your experience and that of your peers to ensure successful Guidewire Cloud-hosted customer solutions
• Contribute to technical assessments of incoming Guidewire Cloud-hosted solutions, ensuring that pre-production customer solutions meet our security and performance criteria and adhere to our coding standards

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE - Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Familiarity with the Agile software development lifecycle
• 3+ years of work experience providing technical software support for a B2B software company
• Experience with a commercial customer incident tracking or CRM system such as Salesforce.com
• Experience using a software defect tracking system such as JIRA
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Advanced exposure to broad technical skills such as Java development, web UI (design and development), XML, application architecture
• Knowledge of front-end web technologies (JavaScript and AngularJS) or similar
• Ability to read and interpret application server thread dumps, Oracle AWR reports, and other log files
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL

Personal Qualities

• Outstanding troubleshooting skills; ability to think critically and display an aptitude for problem solving
• Employ sound business judgment when making business decisions
• Use creative and innovative ways to solve problems
• Display a strong work ethic and do whatever it takes to get the job done
• Demonstrate strong follow-through and consistently keep commitments to customers and employees
• Display an understanding of the customer’s needs and a strong commitment to customer satisfaction
• Ensure that each and every customer is handled with a consummately professional attitude and the highest possible level of service
• Strong mentoring skills and ability to motivate others

Other Requirements

• Willing to work weekends on a rotational basis
• Ability to read, write, and speak fluent English
• You will score bonus points if you can also read, write, and speak French
• Travel – Expect occasional travel (less than 5%) to other Guidewire offices for training and team meetings

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About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

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.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to (650) 356-4940 or Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.