FBS SR Solutions Lead Engineer Guidewire

Overview

Lead Engineer role providing technical direction across multiple Guidewire initiatives and teams, acting as a recognized subject matter expert who influences architecture, delivery strategy, and engineering standards.

What you'll do

• Lead solutioning for complex, cross-functional initiatives and set architectural direction, ensuring enterprise-wide adherence to Guidewire standards.
• Oversee development quality and delivery across multiple large-scale initiatives, and establish engineering best practices organization-wide.
• Serve as the primary technical authority across assigned domains and teams, driving technical direction and continuous improvement at scale.
• Resolve the highest-complexity dependency and risk issues.
• Own resolution strategy for critical, cross-system production incidents and drive proactive reliability and performance initiatives across the platform.
• Advise leadership on technical risk, tradeoffs, and roadmap decisions, and represent engineering in enterprise design forums.
• Build organizational Guidewire capability through coaching, reusable assets, and technical standards, and develop future technical leaders.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Full English fluency.
• Sustained P&C domain experience with a proven track record leading complex and large initiatives.
• People leadership background.
• Advanced (7+ years) Guidewire configuration and Gosu, Integration Framework, REST/SOAP, Java/J2EE, Spring, SQL/Oracle, batch/event-driven patterns, CI/CD, and advanced performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Advanced (7+ years) hands-on expertise in Guidewire Cloud Platform, PolicyCenter Configuration, Integration Framework, Data Model, Product Model, Rules, Workflows, Messaging and Batch Processing.
• Deep experience with Guidewire Jutro Digital Platform (JDP) and Earnix rating/pricing engine integration; cloud-based architecture expertise.
• Guidewire Certified Specialist – PolicyCenter Configuration and Insurance Suite Integration; additional Guidewire Cloud Certifications (advanced, 7+ years).
• Proven hands-on experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude AI, Claude Agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, OpenAI-based solutions or equivalent.
• Experience building and deploying AI Agents for software engineering, production support, testing or operational automation.
• Strong DevOps background including GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and release management.
• Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning, production stability, observability and root cause analysis.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based).
• Requires a few hours (2-3 hrs a day) of overlap with the US Time zone.
• Employer of Record: Capgemini.