Hybrid AVP, Technical Manager

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About the role

  • AVP, GWPC Technical Manager overseeing the Guidewire Policy Center platform for Sompo International. Leading teams in developing innovative commercial insurance products with a focus on performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the application owner for the Guidewire Policy Center platform, overseeing its architecture, performance, and scalability to support Policy Submission and transaction processing
  • Lead a high-performing development team in designing, developing, and delivering new Commercial Insurance products while ensuring system stability and availability
  • Explore and implement cutting-edge technologies, including advancements in Guidewire and AI integration, to enhance policy processing efficiency, reduce overhead, and improve business outcomes
  • Develop and enforce engineering standards around security, secure coding, logging, alerting, and automation
  • Lead efforts to identify and address production-related issues, including managing Major Incident events during business and non-business hours, ensuring quick resolution and minimal business impact
  • Troubleshoot availability and performance issues across multiple layers of deployment, including hardware, operating environments, networks, and applications
  • Partner with cross-functional teams, including Project Management, Business Architecture, Product, Operations, and Testing, to scope, plan, and deliver projects
  • Act as a key technical liaison for the Policy Center team, building strong relationships with business stakeholders, IT groups, and vendors
  • Oversee the maintenance, support, and enhancement of the Guidewire Policy Center ecosystem, including integrations with financial systems, claim systems, portals, third-party vendors etc
  • Ensure the platform operates in line with SLAs in production and non-production environments
  • Automate deployments to test and production environments using robust release pipelines to improve efficiency, traceability, and quality
  • Maintain and govern technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams, and production runbooks
  • Manage onshore and offshore teams, ensuring effective capacity planning, priority management, and adherence to development methodologies
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement by mentoring team members and encouraging technical upskilling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
  • 10+ years of experience in IT, with 7+ years in Java-based enterprise application development and implementation
  • 5+ years of experience with Guidewire Policy Center development as a Technical Lead in end-to-end commercial policy products implementations
  • Strong knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs, object-oriented design, orchestration platforms, message queues, and event messaging
  • Expertise in web servers (Apache Tomcat), relational databases (SQL Server, Postgres), enterprise integration framework and developer tools
  • Proven experience in automating builds, deployments, and production support resolution using industry-standard tools
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools to troubleshoot and resolve application performance issues
  • Demonstrated experience in the P&C insurance domain, with a preference for Commercial Insurance and Policy implementations
  • Guidewire Policy Center experience and certification required
  • Prior experience managing technical teams across onshore/offshore models
  • Strong organizational, priority management, and resource planning skills
  • Ability to manage critical projects, deliver results within budget and timelines, and articulate technical solutions to business stakeholders
  • Solid financial planning and budgeting skills.
  • Proven ability to construct sound business plans and deliver measurable value for stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Two medical plans to choose from, including a Traditional PPO & a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings account providing a competitive employer contribution
  • Pharmacy benefits with mail order options
  • Dental benefits including orthodontia benefits for adults and children
  • Vision benefits
  • Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Company-paid Life & AD&D benefits, including the option to purchase Supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse & children
  • Company-paid Disability benefits with very competitive salary continuation payments
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with competitive employer contributions
  • Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays
  • Competitive Parental Leave Benefits & Adoption Assistance program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tax-Free Commuter Benefit
  • Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits

Job title

AVP, Technical Manager

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$160,000 - $175,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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