Guidewire Product Engineer - Consultant I in Lisburn

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs.

Your role in the team:

As a Guidewire Product Engineer at Allstate, you will design, build, and enhance enterprise insurance applications using Guidewire platforms (ClaimCenter, PolicyCenter, or BillingCenter). You'll work in XP-driven agile teams, practicing pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous delivery to deliver high-quality digital solutions. The role involves hands-on configuration and Gosu development, supporting integrations, contributing to product design decisions, and ensuring robust, scalable systems that meet customer and business needs within a regulated insurance environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team.
• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team's backlog.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 2 years working with hands-on experience delivering solutions on Guidewire ClaimCenter (preferred), PolicyCenter, or BillingCenter including configuration, Gosu development, product model changes, and integration support.
• Holds at least one active Guidewire certification, such as: Guidewire Certified Associate / Specialist ClaimCenter (preferred), PolicyCenter, or BillingCenter; Guidewire Certified Professional - Integration or Configuration.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of Gen AI.
• Experience with Personal Lines Insurance line of business.
• Experience in Agile, with XP preferred and comfortable with pair programming.
• Experience with Agility (or Version 1).

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role does not have supervisory duties.

Why join us?

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

We offer:

• A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts.
• Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D.
• Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth.
• A people-first culture with flexible working options.
• Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities:

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

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