Senior Guidewire Software Engineer

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

Position Summary:

• Must have hands on experience in Guidewire ClaimCenter, Java, NodeJS, GraphQL, Webservices, AWS tech stacks
• Must have experience in writing Gunits/Junits and increasing the code coverage
• Must have experience in practicing Business Driven Development technique
• Analyze the requirements for implementing them using Guidewire either by using Out-of-the-Box solutions in Guidewire platform or providing custom solutions
• Participates in business workshops and provides solutions on technical changes
• Estimates the work effort and review the effort from other developers in the team
• Work with Customer side Technical Lead and Architect for technical guidance
• Prepare the technical documentation for code and design changes, completing Guidewire integration changes. Share technical inputs on the dependencies with other integration work streams
• Completes design, develops code, unit tests code, documents and deploys code into the appropriate environment
• Establish best practices, and guidelines for development. Ensure team adheres to the best practices
• Mentor and help other technical developers in the team
• Co-ordinate and perform integration testing with QA and other dependent teams
• Participate and provide technical inputs/guidance in defect triage meetings
• Help BA’s and Testers with the technical demo sessions presented to business
• Create knowledge base documents and hand over the changes to production support team.

Mandatory Skills:

• Candidate should have 6+ years’ experience in Guidewire, Core Java, REST API technologies, AWS Technologies
• Candidate should have at least 3+ years of experience in Guidewire
• Candidate should have good P&C insurance experience

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the POD team which consists of Guidewire development
• Work along with testers and BA’s and ensure the Jira cards are track for closure on time
• Support BA and Tester for Elaboration provide technical assistance
• Review the teams deliverables
• Present the changes in the CAB meetings, Tech leads, Architectures
• Participate in customers discussion for gather and present the technical requirements.
• Support more than one team technically

Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):

• Minimum Bachelors or Masters degree
• Guidewire Cloud Certificated (Optional)

Salary Range:>$100,000
Date of Posting: 24-Aug-26

Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.

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