Senior Implementation Consultant (AI & Software Engineering)

Role overview

Senior Implementation Consultant (AI & Software Engineering) at Guidewire

Core Implementation & Configuration: Lead and execute the configuration, integration, and custom development of core Guidewire product platforms for customer implementations, ensuring robust, high-quality, and scalable deployments.

Responsibilities

• Enable & Adopt AI Features: Integrate and configure AI capabilities, agentic workflows, and automated tools into base Guidewire products during customer rollouts, embedding AI directly into day-to-day implementation processes.
• Hands-on Java Development: Build custom logic, integrations, context management, and orchestration components using Java, JavaScript, and web technologies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with consultants, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and customer stakeholders to translate business goals into functional technical solutions.
• Troubleshooting & Performance: Troubleshoot complex system issues, analyze logs (e.g., Log4J), and optimize application performance across cloud and relational database environments.
• Quality & Mentorship: Conduct peer code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and demonstrate product and AI functionality to diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• What You’ll Bring Required
• Core Engineering Skills: Strong background in Java, JavaScript, web development, object-oriented design, and standard enterprise development toolsets (Eclipse, IntelliJ, GitHub).
• Core Guidewire / Product Knowledge: Minimum 4+ years of overall experience in packaged enterprise software implementations (Guidewire InsuranceNow or core P&C software platforms).
• Professional Services

Required qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of direct customer-facing technical experience in a professional services or software consulting environment.
• Applied AI Capability: Strong foundational knowledge of AI concepts (LLMs, prompt workflows, embeddings, or retrieval frameworks) and a proven ability to configure and adopt AI capabilities within software delivery processes.
• Infrastructure & Databases: Experience working with Apache Tomcat, relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, AWS Aurora), XML/Velocity templates, and cloud services (AWS S3, Lambda, PrivateLink).
• Communication & Teamwork: Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and technical communication skills with a track record of succeeding in distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Advanced knowledge of AWS infrastructure and serverless services.
• Insurance Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance domain workflows and business concepts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Preferred

Employment details

• Location: India - Bangalore

About the employer

• Senior Implementation Consultants within Guidewire Professional Services are responsible for customer implementations by configuring, customizing, and integrating core Guidewire products (InsuranceNow).
• 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.
• As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success.
• We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry.
• Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
• For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
• Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
• We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success.
• Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
• All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.
• Guidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer.
• We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process.
• If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at accommodations-gw@employ-ability.org.uk, our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.

Additional role details

• Summary
• In this role, you will lead hands-on implementation efforts—configuring base systems, building integrations, and enabling AI-driven features across customer deployments.
• You combine a strong software engineering background in Java with applied AI knowledge, helping to adopt artificial intelligence directly into implementation processes to enhance business workflows, productivity, and project outcomes.