Senior Guidewire PolicyCenter Developer

Role Name: Senior Guidewire PolicyCenter DeveloperLocation: Winnipeg, MB (Hybrid)Location: Calgary (AB), Edmonton (AB), Vancouver (BC), Winnipeg (MB), London/Toronto (ON), Montreal (QC), and Moncton (NB).

Job Description:

The Senior Guidewire PolicyCenter Developer is solely responsible for the design, configuration, customization, and support of Guidewire PolicyCenter solutions. This role requires deep, hands-on expertise in PolicyCenter product model configuration, underwriting rules, UI (PCF), Gosu development, data model extensions, validations, forms, and policy lifecycle management.

Candidates must have extensive real-world experience implementing PolicyCenter in production environments and must be able to independently deliver complex PolicyCenter enhancements end to end. This is a hands-on senior engineering role, not an architecture-only or supervisory position.

Core Responsibilities (Mandatory)

1. Guidewire PolicyCenter Configuration & Customization

• Design, configure, and enhance Guidewire PolicyCenter for new and existing insurance products.
• Perform direct hands-on configuration of:
• Product Model
• UI (PCF screens)
• Data Model (entity extensions, schema changes)
• Configure and maintain coverages, exclusions, conditions, modifiers, and terms strictly aligned with documented business requirements.
• Ensure all configurations follow Guidewire best practices and are production-ready.

1. Product Model & Line of Business Support

• Create, modify, and retire products, coverages, and terms within the PolicyCenter product model.
• Support Personal Property Line of Business implementations, including:
• Accurate product setup
• Policy lifecycle behavior
• Endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and rewrites
• Support new product rollouts and enhancements to existing products without functional regressions.

1. Underwriting Rules & Business Logic

• Create, update, and retire underwriting issues in PolicyCenter based on underwriting guidelines.
• Implement underwriting rules, eligibility logic, and risk evaluation logic using Gosu.
• Translate underwriting business rules into scalable, maintainable technical solutions without ambiguity.
• Ensure underwriting logic behaves correctly across all policy lifecycle events.

1. UI, Data Model & Integrations

• Develop and maintain PolicyCenter UI changes using PCF and Gosu, including screens, workflows, and page logic.
• Perform data model changes, including:
• Entity extensions
• Field additions
• Schema updates
• Ensure strict data integrity, consistency, and validation across PolicyCenter and integrated systems.
• Support integrations by ensuring PolicyCenter data structures and behaviors are integration-ready.

1. Validations, Error Handling & Quality

• Implement PolicyCenter validations and error-handling logic to prevent invalid policy data entry.
• Investigate and resolve PolicyCenter defects across development, test, and production environments.
• Perform and support:
• Unit testing
• System testing
• Defect fixes and regression validation
• Ensure changes are released with zero known high- or critical-severity defects.

1. Forms & Documents

• Configure, update, and maintain PolicyCenter forms.
• Create new forms where required.
• Ensure forms:
• Comply with regulatory requirements
• Meet business rules
• Are correctly triggered within PolicyCenter workflows

1. Rating Configuration

• Configure and support PolicyCenter rating, including:
• Rate tables
• Calculation logic
• Rating rules
• Support rating enhancements and defect resolution.
• Ensure rating outputs are accurate, consistent, and compliant with business rules.

1. Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Work directly with:
• Business Analysts
• Product Owners
• QA teams
• Architects

Participate in:

• Design sessions
• Code reviews
• Technical solution planning
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior PolicyCenter developers.
• Own assigned deliverables from design through production deployment.

Required Skills & Experience (All Mandatory)

• Minimum 6 years of Guidewire development experience, with significant, hands-on focus on PolicyCenter.
• Proven, hands-on expertise in:
• Guidewire PolicyCenter
• Gosu
• PCF
• Guidewire Studio
• Product Model configuration

Demonstrated experience delivering:

• PolicyCenter product model updates
• Coverage updates
• UI changes
• Data model extensions
• Underwriting issues (create / update / retire)
• Validations and error handling
• Forms configuration and development
• Rating configuration

Strong understanding of:

• Insurance policy lifecycle
• Policy issuance, endorsement, renewal, cancellation, and rewrite processes
• Ability to independently analyze requirements and implement solutions without supervision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 6 years of Guidewire development experience with production PolicyCenter implementations.