AES Guidewire BillingCenter Lead Developer

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You'll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services-solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We'll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference-every day.

As an AES Guidewire BillingCenter Lead Developer you will lead work on Guidewire BillingCenter solutions within our Advisory practice, supporting insurance clients through implementation, enhancement, integration, and production support activities. As a Senior Associate you will analyze complex problems, manage assigned workstreams, mentor junior team members, and use critical thinking to develop deliverables that align with client needs and project goals. In this role, you will help drive system improvements, interpret feedback, and apply Guidewire knowledge to support billing operations, issue resolution, and ongoing solution refinement.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates advanced abilities and extensive Application Managed Service projects and solutioning the Guidewire Suite of applications on premises and SaaS, with proven success executing and leading all aspects of complex engagements within the Guidewire product suite achieving on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Demonstrates advanced abilities providing solution strategy and Application Evolution Services (AES, formerly AMS) delivery as a Guidewire Lead Developer. Employees in the Lead Developer position should think of themselves and be regarded by the client as a trusted advisor and think strategically about how to create value using the Guidewire Suite of products.
• Demonstrates expert abilities delivering Guidewire application solutions as it will be critical that consultant in this position are capable of navigating both business processes as well as enterprise solution perspectives at high level and holistic view.
• Demonstrates expert abilities developing a scalable and robust Guidewire solution strategies in a hybrid IT landscape (on premises and cloud).
• Demonstrates expert abilities and/or a proven record of success in developing independently new market-differentiated Guidewire solutions and leading proposal development efforts. Lead Developer in these positions should be capable of delivering Advisory-level work and be able to discuss future enhancements in Guidewire roadmap discussions with the client.
• Developing and supporting Guidewire BillingCenter enhancements, configuration changes, and defect fixes across client environments.
• Analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical designs, code updates, and testable solutions.
• Implementing BillingCenter integrations with upstream and downstream systems using established development methods.
• Troubleshooting production issues, evaluating root causes, and applying corrective actions to stabilize application performance.
• Reviewing code, technical deliverables, and peer work to maintain consistency with delivery standards.
• Coordinating workstreams across assigned tasks, timelines, and dependencies while adapting to changing client needs.
• Building working relationships with client stakeholders to clarify requirements, discuss progress, and address technical questions.
• Applying Guidewire tools, software development practices, and automation techniques to improve application support and release delivery.
• Mentoring junior team members through feedback, task guidance, and knowledge sharing on BillingCenter functionality.
• Interpreting data, logs, and system behavior to identify risks, recommend improvements, and strengthen application reliability.

What You Must Have:

• Deep expertise in Guidewire BillingCenter and good understanding of PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and ContactManager.
• GOSU, Guidewire Event and Rules Framework and Guidewire Web Services.
• Good knowledge of XML and JSON formats and ANT, MAVEN, Gradle scripts.
• Experience using tools such as SOAP UI, Postman and working with code repositories such as SVN and GIT.
• Understanding of DevOps and build/deployment processes.
• At least a Bachelor's degree.
• At least 4-9 years of experience.
• Oral and written proficiency in English required.

What Sets You Apart:

• Demonstrates expert abilities identifying and addressing client needs by developing and sustaining impactful client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
• Demonstrates expert abilities leading global teams to generate a vision, establishing direction and motivating members, creating a community of high performing professional consultants, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and encouraging improvement and innovation.
• Lead Developer will need to be held accountable for a team of resources from both a utilization and learning perspective. Mentoring and helping to upskill junior resources will be critical in this role.
• Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success developing strategy as well as writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management, such as presentation slides, practice marketing materials, change management plans and/or project plans, workshops and whitepapers, practice, methodologies and tools, policies and procedures, and/or other standard business communications.
• Be comfortable, thrive, and available during sustained period of time of instability with client's Guidewire solution and escalations.
• Key contributor and thought leader internally and externally with white papers, blogs, and training.
• Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Actuarial Science, Business Administration/Management, Business Analytics, Commerce, Computer and Information Science, Computer Applications, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering and Accounting, Data Processing/Analytics/Science, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Engineering and Business, Finance, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management/Research, Risk Management, Software App, Statistics.
• At least one of the following: Guidewire and Scrum Master Certification.
• Demonstrating Guidewire BillingCenter configuration skills in client support engagements.
• Applying software development methods across integration and enhancement workstreams.
• Interpreting complex client needs and translating them into actionable deliverables.
• Mentoring junior team members while navigating changing project priorities.
• Collaborating across teams using Agile delivery and continuous learning.

Travel Requirements:

Not Specified

Skills

BillingCenter, GOSU, Gosu, Guidewire, JSON, XML