Frontend Developer- Guidewire Digital

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, and pet. Hollard’s unrelenting focus on diversity and inclusion, collaborative partnerships, and delivering great customer outcomes is at the heart of its business model, driven by its purpose of “Using our expertise, integrity and humanity to go further, together"

Your Team:

You will join the Digital Enablement Team at Hollard, which manages and enhances a variety of digital assets, including Digital Portals, API integrations, Front-End Retail websites, and Customer Correspondence. This developer role will specifically focus on the Guidewire Digital Front-End Portals, Guidewires Producer Engage and Jutro (JDP).

Your Role:

As a Front End Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining customer-facing digital portals that enable seamless user experiences and enhance business capabilities.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

The key focus areas of this role are:

• Design, develop, and maintain digital portals using Guidewire's Jutro (JDP) framework and Producer Engage, ensuring a seamless user experience across platforms.
• Develop and implement front-end solutions with a strong base in JavaScript and React, ensuring high-quality, performant, and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, business analysts, and backend developers, to ensure portal functionality aligns with business requirements.
• Explore and innovate within new and unfamiliar areas of Guidewire portals, proactively seeking solutions and deep diving into technical challenges with minimal guidance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within Guidewire portals, ensuring system stability and continuous improvement of the digital customer experience.

Your knowledge & experience

• Must have demonstrated experience as a front-end developer, ideally within an insurance, financial services, or professional services environment.
• Strong front-end development skills, particularly in JavaScript and React, with experience in building and maintaining large-scale, enterprise-grade applications is required.
• Strong familiarity with Guidewire Jutro (JDP) framework and Producer Engage, with experience in customizations and feature development.
• Advanced problem-solving skills for diagnosing and resolving technical issues within Guidewire portals is essential.
• Solid understanding of front-end development principles, UI/UX design, and web application performance optimization.
• Experience with agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, and working in fast-paced, iterative environments.

Working at Hollard

At Hollard you will be part of a supportive, valued and committed team. You will enjoy a challenging and rewarding work environment, career progression opportunities and great staff benefits and corporate discounts. We also offer many benefits to support your professional development and wellbeing including:

• Professional and technical development opportunities
• Flexible work environment, work from home
• Paid parental and partner leave
• Additional leave options, including 5 well-being days each year
• Generous employee insurance discounts
• Novated lease options
• Corporate employee discounts from various retailers
• Wellbeing benefits e.g., vaccinations, health insurance discounts, mental wellness training professional memberships, EAP

Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including as relate to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity). These enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance.

Even if you don’t meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

Please note that a full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard employees in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.

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