Guidewire Engineer

We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive Guidewire Software Engineer with a passion for building on a multi-skilled agile team in which you will be part of the development of our core claims system that underpins our customer facing portal, direct web sites, aggregator channels and contact centres. This role focuses on the design, delivery, and maintenance of our claim centre application and a keen interest in software engineering and be ready to research and learn new techniques, languages and frameworks as required.

You will work extensively with Guidewire Claim Centre, and related technologies, contributing to both Claim Centre and integrations aligned to it. With a DevSecOps mindset, you will build secure, performant, and resilient applications using modern software engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

Main Duties

Implementation & Delivery

• Design, implement and publication of our core Claim Centre application.
• Design, implement and publication of our core integrations.
• Ensuring the software delivered is performant, secure and scalable aligned to our standards.
• Support and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure observability and proactive incident response.
• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies and delivery processes, taking ownership of outcomes and blockers.
• Identify, document, and reduce technical debt to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with engineers across squads, architecture, security, and platform teams to support shared goals.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, ensuring engineering considerations are included in backlog prioritisation and sprint planning.
• Contribute to improvements of our technical excellence and ways of working within Squad, Chapter.
• Actively contribute to Scrum ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning and Retrospective.
• Contributing to the development and refinement of user requirements.
• Working directly with the Product Owner and business to develop solutions to support the product roadmap.

Experience Required

Technical Expertise

• Commercial experience with Guidewire CC 10 or later.
• Commercial experience developing with Java.
• Knowledge of the Java web services and Spring frameworks/libraries.
• Experience of implementing and consuming SOAP or RESTful web services.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools across distributed frontend/backend applications (e.g. using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, concepts and tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Working knowledge of SQL and interacting with data layers.
• Experience with testing frameworks, Unit testing and acceptance testing.
• Proficient with version control using GIT and delivery via Agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of cloud platform services (Azure/GCP) and relevant networking and security configurations (e.g. load balancing, CDN, API gateways).

Behavioural Competencies

• Analytical Thinking: Able to break down complex problems and define scalable, reusable solutions.
• Adaptability: Embraces change and works effectively in evolving environments and technology stacks.
• Initiative & Innovation: Proactively explores and improves tooling, and practices to unlock efficiency.
• Decision-Making: Balances trade-offs and makes well-informed technical decisions in a timely manner.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across cross-functional teams and contributes to shared goals.
• Communication: Articulates ideas clearly and appropriately for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Customer Centricity: Keeps usability, responsiveness, and performance at the core of frontend delivery.
• Accountability: Takes responsibility for engineering quality, security, and long-term platform maintainability.
• Resilience & Knowledge Sharing: Actively shares knowledge, documents solutions, and avoids single points of failure.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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