Senior Development Lead – Guidewire Claim Centre

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to oversee the efficient delivery of build artefacts collaborate with software engineers to develop and integrate software solutions and enhance existing systems to optimise operational applications. This role involves designing coding testing and documenting complex programs and scripts in alignment with specifications and standards while actively participating in specification reviews with relevant stakeholders.

Senior Development Lead GuidewireClaimCenter

• Location: London

• Type: Permanent full time

• Happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity

QBE Europe is recruiting a Senior Development Lead Guidewire ClaimCenterto join our development team in our London office.

The Senior Development Lead GuidewireClaimCenteris accountable for the technical leadership people leadership and delivery outcomes of one or more Agile delivery teams working on GuidewireClaimCentersolutions.

The role provides handson technical leadership while managing developers to ensure solutions are designed and delivered to the highest quality standards aligned to business outcomes and QBE technology strategy.

The Senior Development Lead works within an Agile delivery model collaborating closely with Product Owners Scrum Masters Architects Business Analysts and external partners while providing direction coaching and governance for development teams.

Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this may consider sponsorship at its discretion.

About QBE

At QBE we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch.

Werean international insurer with more than 13000 people working across 26 countrieswhich meanswerebig enough for your ambitions yet small enough for you to make a real exciting momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

What if you could have a positive impact at work and in the world As part of the QBE teamyoullget to spend every day working with people who are passionatetalentedand kind.

Your new role

• Provide technical direction and design oversight for GuidewireClaimCentersolutions

• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices coding standards and architectural principles

• Review and govern solution designs integrations and configuration approaches

• Act as a technical escalation point for complex development and integration issues

• Ensure highquality integrations with external systems (APIs messaging batch processes plugins)

• Coach and mentor Guidewire developers across multiple experience levels

• Support skills development career growth and succession planning within the team

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement accountability and collaboration

About you

• Strong leadership capability with proven experience leading and managing softwarechanges

• Deep technical expertise in GuidewireClaimCenterdevelopment(UI workflowsGosuscripting GUnit tests)

• Strong decisionmaking and problemsolving skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage at all levels of the organisation

• High attention to detail combined with a pragmatic delivery mindset

• Ability to translate business strategy into clear technical direction

• Proven handson experience designing and delivering GuidewireClaimCentersolutions

• Strong knowledge ofGosuand Java

• Integration patterns (web services messaging batch processes plugins)

• Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments

• Experience authoring and governing technical documentation

• Strong experience with CI/CD source control and release management (Git Azure DevOps branching strategies)

• Experience using issue and worktracking tools such as JIRA

• Certified in Guidewire v10 Integration and Configuration (ACE certification preferred).

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life whatever your well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!

• 30 days holiday a yearwith theoptionto buy up to 2additionaldays.

• Flexible working-balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all this can include part-time job share and compressed hours.

• Pension you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.

• Private medical insurance we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.

• Family friendly policies we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity sexual orientation or how you become a parent.

• Short term remote work abroad-you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.

• Sustainable investing- we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial environmental and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions incarbonfootprint by investing more ingreen businesses than the broader market so your savings are looking after the planets future as well as your own.

• Cycle-to-Work benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of 5000.

To learn more about benefits of working with us click Rewarding our people - QBE European Operations

Awards & Recognition

We value our employees experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2025:Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the YearWinner: Reinsurer of the Year - QBE Re Winner: ESG DiversityEquityand Inclusion Initiative of the Year

• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023:QBE rated as a 5-Star Employee

To learn more about our achievements clickhere

How to Apply

Ifyourelooking for a career thatcombines yourexpertiseand your empathyclickApplytoday.

Your career. At the heart of it.

Skills:

Communication Critical Thinking Customer Service Financial Systems Intentional collaboration Managing performance Process Improvements Project Management Risk Management Software Development Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies Software Engineering Stakeholder Management Team Management Technical Architecture

How to Apply:

To submit your application click Apply and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1