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Role Name: Senior Guidewire Policy Center Developer

Location: Winnipeg, MB (Hybrid)

Location: Calgary (AB), Edmonton (AB), Vancouver (BC), Winnipeg (MB), London/Toronto (ON), Montreal (QC), and Moncton (NB).

Job Description:

The Senior Guidewire Policy Center Developer is solely responsible for the design, configuration, customization, and support of Guidewire Policy Center solutions. This role requires deep, hands-on expertise in Policy Center product model configuration, underwriting rules, UI (PCF), Gosu development, data model extensions, validations, forms, and policy lifecycle management.

Candidates must have extensive real-world experience implementing Policy Center in production environments and must be able to independently deliver complex Policy Center enhancements end to end. This is a hands-on senior engineering role, not an architecture-only or supervisory position.

Core Responsibilities (Mandatory)

- Guidewire Policy Center Configuration & Customization

- Design, configure, and enhance Guidewire Policy Center for recent and existing insurance products.
- Perform direct hands-on configuration of:
- Product Model
- UI (PCF screens)
- Data Model (entity extensions, schema changes)
- Configure and maintain coverages, exclusions, conditions, modifiers, and terms strictly aligned with documented business requirements.
- Ensure all configurations follow Guidewire best practices and are production-ready.

- Product Model & Line of Business Support

- Create, modify, and retire products, coverages, and terms within the Policy Center product model.
- Support Personal Property Line of Business implementations, including:
- Accurate product setup
- Policy lifecycle behavior
- Endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and rewrites




- Support new product rollouts and enhancements to existing products without functional regressions.

- Underwriting Rules & Business Logic

- Create, update, and retire underwriting issues in Policy Center based on underwriting guidelines.
- Implement underwriting rules, eligibility logic, and risk evaluation logic using Gosu.
- Translate underwriting business rules into scalable, maintainable technical solutions without ambiguity.
- Ensure underwriting logic behaves correctly across all policy lifecycle events.

- UI, Data Model & Integrations

- Develop and maintain Policy Center UI changes using PCF and Gosu, including screens, workflows, and page logic.
- Perform data model changes, including:
- Entity extensions
- Field additions
- Schema updates
- Ensure strict data integrity, consistency, and validation across Policy Center and integrated systems.
- Support integrations by ensuring Policy Center data structures and behaviors are integration-ready.

- Validations, Error Handling & Quality

- Implement Policy Center validations and error-handling logic to prevent invalid policy data entry.
- Investigate and resolve Policy Center defects across development, test, and production environments.
- Perform and support:
- Unit testing
- System testing
- Defect fixes and regression validation
- Ensure changes are released with zero known high- or critical-severity defects.

- Forms & Documents

- Configure, update, and maintain Policy Center forms.
- Create new forms where required.
- Ensure forms:




- Comply with regulatory requirements
- Meet business rules
- Are correctly triggered within Policy Center workflows

- Rating Configuration

- Configure and support Policy Center rating, including:
- Rate tables
- Calculation logic
- Rating rules
- Support rating enhancements and defect resolution.
- Ensure rating outputs are accurate, consistent, and compliant with business rules.

- Collaboration & Technical Leadership

- Work directly with:
- Business Analysts
- Product Owners
- QA teams
- Architects

Participate in:

- Design sessions
- Code reviews
- Technical solution planning
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior Policy Center developers.
- Own assigned deliverables from design through production deployment.

Required Skills & Experience (All Mandatory)

- Minimum 6 years of Guidewire development experience, with significant, hands-on focus on Policy Center.
- Proven, hands-on expertise in:
- Guidewire Policy Center
- Gosu
- PCF
- Guidewire Studio
- Product Model configuration

Demonstrated experience delivering:

- Policy Center product model updates
- Coverage updates
- UI changes
- Data model extensions
- Underwriting issues (create / update / retire)
- Validations and error handling
- Forms configuration and development
- Rating configuration

Strong understanding of:

- Insurance policy lifecycle
- Policy issuance, endorsement, renewal, cancellation, and rewrite processes
- Ability to independently analyze requirements and implement solutions without supervision.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 6 years of Guidewire development experience with production Policy Center implementations.

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