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Production Support Engineer
- DepartmentProduct Development and Operations
- LocationUnited States - Bedford, MA
- Location TypeHybrid
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a deep knowledge of InsuranceNow and Underwriting Management (UM) software and relevant diagnostic tools through company-sponsored Professional certification training and experience.
- Function as the main point of contact to research, respond to, priorities and accurately resolve cases in a timely manner and in accordance with team standards to ensure customer happiness!
- Provide expert solutions to customer problems to ensure customer satisfaction!
- Partner with Guidewire delivery, Product and Cloud Operations teams to understand each customer’s business objectives and integration requirements, and rationalize those against established best practices you learn through your experience and that of your peers to ensure successful Guidewire Cloud-hosted customer solutions
- Contribute to technical assessments of incoming Guidewire Cloud-hosted solutions, ensuring that pre-production customer solutions meet our security and performance criteria and adhere to our coding standards
- Write thorough and detailed case documentation to meet objectives for Case Quality, Customer Satisfaction scores, and SLAs.
- Escalate customer issues and keep management informed of critical issues, as appropriate.
- Plan and coordinate deployments according to standards including pre-testing and installing (post-release) maintenance pack bundles and hot fixes.
- Contribute to an environment that encourages collaboration, information sharing, team-based resolution activity, cross-training, and an absolute focus on doing what is best for the customer.
- Participate in team projects that enhance the quality or efficiency of support
- Create UM customer weekly production metrics reports and daily monitoring reports.
Required skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Familiarity with the Agile software development lifecycle
- Computer programming or software application coding skills; Java programming experience is required
- 3+ years’ experience working directly with customers or key internal partners; preference for support for a B2B software company; Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance experience preferred
- Software as a Service (SaaS) platform support and operations experience
- Experience solving problem software code and reporting progress; preference for experience with a commercial customer incident tracking or CRM like Salesforce.com (preferred)
- Experience using a software defect tracking system such as JIRA (preferred)
- Advanced exposure to broad technical skills such as Object-Oriented Programming (Java, J2EE, App) servers, C#, or similar), relational databases (data modeling/SQL/Aurora/MySQL), web UI (design and development), XML, web services and application architecture
- Experience with Rich Internet Technologies (HTML5, AJAX)
- Skills to read and interpret application server thread dumps, Oracle AWR reports, DataDog monitoring and other cloud management technologies
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Read, write, and speak fluent English
- We provide 24x7 support to our customers, so there will be some work outside of your regular scheduled days/shift (including weekends) to cover after-hours production emergencies, on-call work, and deployments with compensatory time off.
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding troubleshooting skills, ability to think critically and display an aptitude for problem solving
- Employ sound business judgment when making business decisions
- Use creative and innovative ways to solve problems
- Display a strong work ethic and do whatever it takes to get the job done
- Demonstrate strong follow-through and consistently keep commitments to customers and employees
- Ensure that each and every customer is handled with a consummately professional attitude and the highest possible level of service
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
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Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.
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Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.
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