Software Engineer Senior Consultant II

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Software Engineer Senior Consultant architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

Primary work is development and production support of a GuideWire Claim Center and Contact Manager product. As such GW Claim Center skill is essential

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Guidewire ClaimCenter Developer with strong expertise in development and production support of Guidewire applications. The role involves enhancing, maintaining, and supporting Guidewire ClaimCenter and ContactManager solutions in a dynamic insurance environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Provides support for software products in user environments
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Develop, configure, and support Guidewire ClaimCenter applications using XP practice and Test Driven Development.
• Provide L2/L3 production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Customize and maintain Guidewire components including Gosu, PCF, Business Rules, Data Model, and Workflows.
• Design and support integrations using REST/SOAP services and messaging frameworks.
• Support Guidewire ContactManager functionalities and integrations.
• Collaborate with business, and cross-functional teams throughout the SDLC.

Required Skills

• 8-10 years of overall IT experience.
• Guidewire ClaimCenter Certification.
• Strong hands-on experience in Guidewire ClaimCenter (Mandatory).
• Experience with Guidewire ContactManager.
• Expertise in Gosu, PCF, Data Model, Business Rules, and Integrations.
• Strong production support and troubleshooting experience.
• Good understanding of Insurance Claims processes.
• Experience with SQL, REST/SOAP APIs, Git, and Agile methodologies.

Preferred

• Experience in Guidewire upgrades, cloud implementations, or migrations.
• Exposure to PolicyCenter and/or BillingCenter.
• Experience with Extreme Programming (XP) methods and Test Driven Development (TDD)

Mandatory Skill: Guidewire ClaimCenter, Personal Lines Insurance Domain Experience, Guidewire ACE Certification 
Nice to Have: Guidewire ContactManager, Canadian Personal Lines Insurance Domain Experience

 

Primary Skills

Software Development

Shift Time

Recruiter Info

Sunita M

maabd@allstate.com

About Allstate

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.