Location: Ireland - Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Delivery Services

Guidewire helps our customers and partners implement our software across Europe, and we are looking for an experienced Front-End Architect to help us fulfill increasing demand.

We are looking for experienced people who want to work with current, leading- edge technology on challenging, customer focused consulting and implementation projects.

Guidewire's market-leading Digital products enable insurance carriers to build and implement leading-edge sales and self-service digital capabilities. These capabilities provide Agents and Policy Holders interfaces to quickly and easily create and service insurance policies.

The Digital consultants will be building new, innovative user interfaces for the insurance industry using Guidewire Jutro, Guidewire’s design system and front-end framework. Jutro enables developers to seamlessly develop Guidewire applications for customers and empowers designers to create consistent and cohesive user experience designs. These Jutro consultants will be collaborating with user experience, business analysts, and Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation teams to deliver end-to-end solutions to the P&C industry.

Each new member of the team will undergo Guidewire Digital training prior to working on a project. Mentors will also be assigned to allow new team members to develop their technical skill and learn the Guidewire SurePath Methodology and Digital Best Practices.

As a Guidewire architect, you will become the trusted advisor for the customer and partner, and you will coach and mentor their teams, enabling them to become self-sufficient over time. This position requires a unique blend of technical aptitude, business savvy, and interpersonal skills.

Our projects will expect some on-site presence, so there will be expectations to travel in Europe freely without sponsorship.

Technical Skills:

• At least 5 years of Software development experience using web technologies
• Ability to demonstrate advanced technical skills in JavaScript and React framework.
• Experience with or willingness and ability to learn Jutro, Guidewire’s design system
• Experience with CSS, SASS, and other look-and-feel technologies
• Experience migrating AngularJS applications to React is a distinct advantage
• Experience with automated unit testing using Jest/Enzyme or similar frameworks
• Exposure to server-side technologies (JSON/RPC, REST)
• Effective leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Proven negotiation skills and a strong ability to understand and influence customers
• Ability to build team collegiality on large scale programs with teams from different vendors and companies.
• Ability to find ways of solving or preempting problems and proactively dealing with any issues that arise in a timely manner.
• Ability to gain respect and to create a sense of community among the members of the project teams.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Ability to travel for onsite work.

Other Skills/Experience:

• Able to demonstrate experience with building web/mobile services and single-page applications
• Collaboration with UX designers
• Strong English skills
• Fluent in French

Nice to have:

• Insurance industry experience
• Exposure to Invision, Sketch, or other UX prototyping tools

Why Guidewire?

• We provide exceptional support to our consultants, from a full-time dedicated Consulting manager whose focus is helping to enable and develop our staff and guide them on their career path within Guidewire, to our fantastic Global Mobility team who help provide flexible options to our consultants who need to travel for client engagement.
• We’re proud to shout about our excellent benefits packages. Holistic wellness is a big deal for us. We offer everything you need to support your work and, most importantly, your work-life balance. We’re committed to helping you be the best version of yourself. Inside and outside of work.

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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. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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