Product Engineer (Integrations) - Guidewire BillingCenter

Position Description:

We are Canada's largest independent information technology services firm, and after 45+ years, we're still growing! Join Canada's largest IT Company as a Product Engineer (Integrations) - Guidewire BillingCenter, in our Financial Services Sector in Toronto.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growth area that will help to expand your skill base and give you the opportunity to grow and develop in a new platform.

Accountable for leading a team of engineers in the Guidewire Billing Center Digital Product team in the Canadian ‘Financials' product family. The successful candidate will help drive the deliverables of the project as well as the harmonization of team needs and capability with delivery requirements and other stakeholders within the delivery ecosystem across multiple functional areas/vendors. There will also be an opportunity to work closely with the other four Digital Product teams in Financials as a Product family.

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office at a minimum 3 days per week - subject to change at any time.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• The Product Engineer takes care of the Guidewire Billing Center team by troubleshooting and resolving any degradation of service, application validations on weekdays (sometimes on weekends) and involvement in Major and minor releases along with DR (Disaster Recovery) activity. Will participate in identifying, designing and building of application improvements.
• The consultant will design and build on product roadmap, production defect fixes, general lifecycle management activities and work closely with peers to ensure the performance, availability, and stability of the application suites.
• Participate in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team's backlog. Participate in scrum ceremonies and lead the team with full enthusiasm.
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way.
• Conducted analysis and coding for UI and middleware components.
• Implement code refactoring for enhanced reusability and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, testing(unit, Integration, performance)
• Participate in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, quality assurance, and release management.
• Serve as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack.
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Build, manage the integration of new applications in accordance to client standards and governance.
• Participate in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team.
• Build relationships with members of multiple Engineering, Development, Operations, and Architecture organizations.
• Proactively investigate and participate in discussions regarding new technologies and their impact.
• Create and maintain technology and application documentation for use by peers.
• Provides detailed metrics to Team lead/Manager in a timely manner.
• Support Quality Control (QC) personnel with functional tests when necessary.
• Communicating with integrating applications and business users for issue resolution.
• Help troubleshooting Data integration issues and ensuring timely resolution

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Guidewire Certified to a minimum of Guidewire Specialist Integration Developer.
• 5 or more years' experience in an Integrations Engineering role.
• Strong knowledge with SDLC, Agile and/or other recognized software development and project management methodologies, with.
• Technical Experience with Guidewire Billing Center systems.
• Technical Experience with system integrations, Guidewire Gosu, Integration Gateway Apps and Guidewire Cloud Ski updates to align with evolving business needs.
• Knowledge of Integration Technologies such as Java Spring, REST, React, Kafka.
• Knowledge in developing custom plug-ins, batches, messaging, and web services.
• Technical understanding of Billing processing and associated data flows.
• Hands on experience designing and developing integration solutions with Kafka, message queue, and related technologies.
• Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
• Strong development techniques, such as debugging, testing (Unit, Integration and Contract), Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, coding, use of productivity tools (GIT, JIRA, Confluence, TeamCity, Bitbucket etc.).
• Familiarity with revision control systems Git /GitHub
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, SONAR etc.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to learn rapidly.
• Must be able to adapt to a dynamic environment, make quick decisions under pressure.
• Must be proactive, results-oriented, customer-focused, and attentive to details.
• Strong organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skill.
• Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively

**CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,–$,. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Use of the term ‘engineering’ in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions, but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

• Bitbucket
• Financial Services
• Java
• Spring