MONTANA STATE FUND IS LOOKING FOR AN ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ENGINEER WITH GUIDEWIRE EXPERIENCE TO JOIN THE IT INSURANCE APPLICATIONS TEAM!

Do you enjoy the designing and implementing complex enterprise solutions? Do you pride yourself on your ability to lead large IT projects, both onsite and remote technical teams?  Do you enjoy requirements analysis and providing custom designs of specific programs, specfically related to insurance? How about the role as a key liaison with the business and stakeholders regarding project status, proposal and technical issues? 

If the above sounds interesting to you, please read on to learn about the job functions, duties and minimum qualifications required for this career opportunity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Independently and interdependently design and implement complex technical solutions. Apply principles of engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of the enterprise solutions and systems. Provide technical leadership for highly complex business analytics or insurance products and projects, as well as, deliver superior business value to enterprise stakeholders.

THIS POSITION MAY BE HIRED TO EITHER WORK AT OUR LOCAL HEADQUARTERS IN HELENA, MONTANA OR REMOTELY FROM WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, PROVIDED THE CANDIDATE IS SUFFICIENTLY DIGITALLY CAPABLE FROM HIS/HER LOCATION.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

• Provides technical leadership for highly complex insurance products or data applications; defines, analyzes and creates solutions for projects utilizing various development methodologies. Leads matrixed project teams, insurance business SMEs and on/off shore technical experts in developing the solution design, assigns tasks to project teams, tracks progress, verifies completion of assignments according to development standards.  Identifies issues / risks, escalates and reports to appropriate levels of stakeholders. (40%)
• Analyze, design and develop artifacts according to best practices, standards and specifications. (30%)
• Analyze existing systems built on MSF technologies for improvements and evaluate proposed systems for feasibility and architectural compliance. Provide systems analysis, user support, and develops program specifications and reusable components for specific business applications. (20%)
• Provide technical expertise, advice and mentoring to other IT and insurance business professionals regarding the application of complex systems analysis and design to business problems. (10%)

KEY ACTIVITIES

• Provides leadership on large projects spanning onsite and remote business and technical teams.
• Analyze existing systems, develop artifacts, and establish, implement and maintain specific systems, while monitoring and supervising systems performance.
• Analyze requirements for feasibility and users’ needs and design, develop, debug and unit test using MSF technologies for commercial business applications.
• Prepare business documentation and conduct user training.
• Custom design specific programs for enterprise and user needs, to support business processes, provide specific technical awareness, insight and documentation as appropriate to departments and users.
• Perform extensive functional testing of modules post-customization.
• Ensure that systems continue to function normally through maintenance and testing, execute production failure trouble shooting.
• Work with other solution design engineers, architects and other cross functional IT professionals to design tools and enhancements and write code to fulfill enterprise objectives and needs
• Liaise with business /stakeholders on project status, proposals and technical issues.
• Design and develop solutions/models as applicable, using scientific analysis and mathematical techniques to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of capabilities and requirements, generate useful and actionable business insights.
• Complete special projects as assigned.

Required Skills

WHAT YOU WILL NEED (Minimum Qualifications)

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor degree;

AND

5 YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE that includes:

• 2 YEARS of directly related work experience utilizing any and/or all of the following Guidewire technologies: Policy Center, Billing Center, Contact Manager, Underwriting Management, Insurance Now, Digital Portals, Data Hub, Info Center, Predictive Analytics and/or Claim Center.
• 3 YEARS of additional experience with any of the following similar technologies: Guidewire Live, Duck Creek, Sapiens, Insuresoft, and/or OneShield as well as supporting technologies WebSphere Applications Server, WebSphere RAD 8/9, Extensive Markup Language (XML).

Must be open to and have the ability learning other programming language(s) as necessary along with innovative and creative analytical skills to resolve design issues.

PREFERRED:

• Master degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 4 years of directly related work experience utilizing Guidewire technologies (Policy Center, Billing Center, Contact Manager, Underwriting Management, Insurance Now, Digital Portals, Data Hub, Info Center, Predictive Analytics and/or Claim Center).
• Relevant technical and/or insurance certifications preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Fast paced general office environment with complex work where technical and theoretical knowledge is used to solve problems, create solutions and technically implement solutions. Some stress may occur.  Intermittent domestic and international travel expected (as required by business needs). Must be willing to travel as directed as well as have a valid passport and the ability to obtain all necessary paperwork to travel to/from locations both inside and outside the US. Must have strong analytical skills to critically assess user’s needs and design software solutions to meet those needs.  Must have strong communication skills to provide clear instructions and explanations in technical and lay terms.  Must be detail oriented for work on many parts of an application or system, as well as, strong interpersonal skills to work well with others to contribute to designing, developing and programming successful software.  Problem-solving skills are necessary to work with others and software from beginning to end and solve problems as they arise throughout the process. Requires frequent walking, bending stooping, crouching, reaching and carrying (walking around building, working under desks), visual acumen, manual dexterity, detailed verbal and written communications and fingering for working with computer keyboards. Occasional heavy lifting.

Required Experience

WHAT YOU WILL NEED (Minimum Qualifications)

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor degree;

AND

5 YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE that includes:

• 2 YEARS of directly related work experience utilizing any and/or all of the following Guidewire technologies: Policy Center, Billing Center, Contact Manager, Underwriting Management, Insurance Now, Digital Portals, Data Hub, Info Center, Predictive Analytics and/or Claim Center.
• 3 YEARS of additional experience with any of the following similar technologies: Guidewire Live, Duck Creek, Sapiens, Insuresoft, and/or OneShield as well as supporting technologies WebSphere Applications Server, WebSphere RAD 8/9, Extensive Markup Language (XML).

Must be open to and have the ability learning other programming language(s) as necessary along with innovative and creative analytical skills to resolve design issues.

PREFERRED:

• Master degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 4 years of directly related work experience utilizing Guidewire technologies (Policy Center, Billing Center, Contact Manager, Underwriting Management, Insurance Now, Digital Portals, Data Hub, Info Center, Predictive Analytics and/or Claim Center).
• Relevant technical and/or insurance certifications preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Fast paced general office environment with complex work where technical and theoretical knowledge is used to solve problems, create solutions and technically implement solutions. Some stress may occur.  Intermittent domestic and international travel expected (as required by business needs). Must be willing to travel as directed as well as have a valid passport and the ability to obtain all necessary paperwork to travel to/from locations both inside and outside the US. Must have strong analytical skills to critically assess user’s needs and design software solutions to meet those needs.  Must have strong communication skills to provide clear instructions and explanations in technical and lay terms.  Must be detail oriented for work on many parts of an application or system, as well as, strong interpersonal skills to work well with others to contribute to designing, developing and programming successful software.  Problem-solving skills are necessary to work with others and software from beginning to end and solve problems as they arise throughout the process. Requires frequent walking, bending stooping, crouching, reaching and carrying (walking around building, working under desks), visual acumen, manual dexterity, detailed verbal and written communications and fingering for working with computer keyboards. Occasional heavy lifting.