Senior Guidewire Engineer

As a Senior Guidewire Engineer, you will play a critical role 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. You’ll leverage your engineering expertise to design and deliver resilient code, ensuring that it is reliable, performant, secure and scalable.

Working closely with Principal Engineers, Squad Leads, and cross-functional teams, you’ll embed a culture of continuous improvement, proactive incident management, and operational excellence. As a senior team member, you will also mentor engineers, contribute to engineering strategy, and help define best practices.

Main Duties

Leadership

• Act as a technical lead within your squad, setting high standards for engineering practices and infrastructure resilience.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Squad Leads to align engineering work with wider platform goals.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and business to develop solutions to support the product roadmap.
• Help shape and implement the long-term technical strategy for reliability and scalability

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.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure observability and proactive incident response.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline design, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation.
• Lead incident management activities, including post-incident reviews and improvement plans.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce toil and improve delivery consistency.
• Document technical designs, solutions, and operational procedures to support collaboration and sustainability.

Technical Excellence & Best Practices

• Champion and embed coding best practices and standards.
• Actively contribute to peer reviews and encourage a culture of continuous feedback.
• Drive engineering maturity through shared standards, tooling, and modernisation efforts.
• Raise and track technical debt, driving its resolution across the platform estate.
• Understanding of emerging technologies and their suitability to business demands.

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.
• Support cross-functional initiatives including recruitment, onboarding, and guild contributions.
• Work with shared services teams to ensure dependencies are raised and managed.

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.
• Experience implementing and supporting observability and monitoring 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).
• Good 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: Breaks down complex problems and identifies root causes and solution paths.
• Adaptability: Responds constructively to shifting priorities and operational incidents.
• Initiative & Innovation: Drives proactive improvement, automation, and performance optimisation.
• Decision-Making: Takes informed and timely decisions balancing risk, value, and urgency.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, builds trust, and shares knowledge.
• Communication: Communicates clearly and appropriately for the audience, including stakeholders and engineers.
• Customer Focus: Keeps reliability, performance, and user experience central to engineering decisions.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Supports growth and development of other engineers through structured feedback and informal guidance.
• Accountability: Takes ownership of deliverables, quality, and post-release operations.
• Strategic Awareness: Aligns engineering work with broader business and platform objectives.

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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