.Our opportunityThe role of the Senior Guidewire Technical Lead exists to technically lead, manage, and mentor a team of developers who develop and test software within the Zurich Guidewire Team (ZGT).The role promotes technical excellence within the ZGT team by applying and promoting Guidewire best practices and ensuring that solutions are designed, developed and unit tested in accordance with internal standards and industry best practice.The Zurich Guidewire Technical Lead must be hands on technically and able to lead and mentor the team to deliver effective and efficient software solutions to stakeholders.Key tasks will be to structure, manage, review and develop software solutions to high performing technical standards and adhering to Guidewire (GW) best practice.This is a senior role responsible to create a cohesive team that can deliver effective and efficient deliverables across the Global Zurich landscape, whilst supporting the ZGT strategy and ensuring best practice for processes and procedures.Your roleAs a Senior Guidewire Technical Lead, you will be leading and managing a team developing solutions for several GW related projects.Your main responsibilities will involve:* In partnership with Zurich's Group Claims organization, responsible for driving the development of the Guidewire ecosystems across Zurich.* Accelerate Guidewire ecosystems that foster innovation, collaboration and reuse across the various countries and functions that use the system.* Leverage technology at a global level to drive operational efficiencies in the claims handling process, better outcomes, and an improved client experience.* Work with all Guidewire Business Units (BUs) to understand opportunities & remediate pain points.* Work with the ZGT Product Owner, Product Manager and ZGT Architects to prioritise the backlog and pipeline of work for the ZGT, including new Cloud capabilities & ensuring Guidewire's offering meets Zurich's requirements.* Proactively identify and encourage sharing of solutions across countries to help drive innovation in a faster & more efficiency manner.* Bring technical skills to the fore, developing more junior development staff.* Develop greater consistency in the use of our systems, foster the awareness of and actively drive the reuse of existing global solution capabilities and in partnership with GTO (Group Technology Office) functions drive the development and implementation of new global solution capabilities.* Support the wider environment (e.G. Claims Data and Analytics team) in the capture of data to support our data and analytics capabilities and share with business partners.Key Responsibilities:* Responsible to lead a team of ZGT developers.* Identify, analyse, design and develop GW code, APIs and integration flows.* Design and develop framework components within GW.* Create and review logical designs and low-level designs, working with other technical leads and solution architects
