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Colonnade Insurance S.A. specializes in non-life insurance, which is designed not only for individual clients, but also for small and large businesses. We are part of the multinational financial group Fairfax Financial Holdings, one of the world leaders in insurance and reinsurance. Colonnade operates through branches in Romania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and a subsidiary in Ukraine.
In Europe, the Colonnade company employs over 660 experienced specialists. Our financial strength has been affirmed by the A.M. Best Company rating A- (Excellent).
WHY IS COLONNADE A GREAT PLACE TO JOIN?
At Colonnade, our strategy is to become a significant general insurer of scale, focusing on the CEE region. Colonnade is in a fortunate and unique position:
- Our shareholder is totally supportive of our strategy and investment in our growth
- We have a profitable foundation and can fund our transformation from these profits
- We want to transform and create our insurance company into a modern, successful and digital insurer, based on our Fairfax values
- We are making a multi-million Euro investment in Guidewire and additional digital systems to create a common platform across our countries
ROLE PURPOSE
This role is a strategic hire to ensure Colonnade can successfully design, develop and deliver large Colonnade-wide projects within our transformation programme.
The main role of hired person will be to develop and maintain our core insurance system and work closely with business team to help converting business requirements into new system features in Guidewire PolicyCenter and PolicyCenter Rating engine.
The incumbent will work in Scrum Team together with other developers, testers and business analysts and will be responsible for development of new features, controlling code quality and supporting business to allow delivery of necessary implementation on core platform and digital front ends.
We are looking for goal-oriented team players who enjoy delivering value to the organization.
DAY TO DAY TASKS - MAIN DUTIES
- Design and implement new features in Guidewire PolicyCenter, especially in the area of product configuration, rating, document flow, REST API integrations
- Support of existing platform with strong focus on code quality and good solution design
- Collaborate with business analysts, testers, product owners and delivery managers
- Fix defects and reduce technical debt
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Build strong relationships with workstream colleagues and all senior stakeholders to drive transparency of program workloads, financial, commitments, and expectation
- Actively participate in Scrum events: Planning, Daily, Retrospective, Refinement
REQUIREMENTS
List of requirements to be successful in the future role:
- At least two years of hands-on experience in configuration of Guidewire PolicyCenter, with strong understanding of product configuration and rating management
- Good understanding of OOP principles, design patterns and focus on clean code and quality
- Good understanding of REST API standard from provider/consumer perspective
- Understanding of SQL database principles
- Fluent English and communication skills
- Eager to learn new technologies and solutions
- Experience in working with project/product delivery Scrum teams as a developer
- Strength with problem-solving, issue resolution, proactive, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment and attention to detail
Additionally, the ideal candidates:
- Are familiar with other Guidewire centers
- Have experience working in consulting, delivery, or IT company, especially in the field of non-life insurance
- Have experience working in distributed, international team
COLONNADE VISION
We believe in fairness and simplicity in all our relationships, this is how we do business! We deliver transparent products and fast claims service that address the challenges of the changing world around us!
COLONNADE VALUES
- Honesty and integrity are essential in all our relationships and will never be compromised.
- We are results oriented - not political.
- We are team players - no "egos". A confrontational style is not appropriate.
- We value loyalty - to Fairfax and our colleagues.
- We are hardworking but not at the expense of our families.
- We follow the Golden Rule: we treat others as we would want to be treated
- We always look at opportunities but emphasize downside protection and look for ways to minimize loss of capital.
- We are entrepreneurial. We encourage calculated risk taking. It is all right to fail but we should learn from our mistakes.
- We will never bet the company on any project or acquisition.