Guidewire BA

Job Title: Guidewire BA Location: Salt Lake City, UT - Onsite Employment Type: Contract Duration: 12 Months

Position Description:
We are seeking a seasoned Guidewire Business Analyst to support ongoing enhancements and steady-state operations for a regional insurer. This role will focus on Guidewire PolicyCenter and/or ClaimCenter modules and requires strong experience in requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and agile delivery. The ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating a fast-paced environment and balancing business analysis with light project coordination. At CGI, you will tackle important business and technical problems as a full-time consultant serving enterprise clients. Youll be part of a team of dedicated people like yourself and make an impact with both internal and client partners. Consider joining CGI, a premier consulting firm that encourages personal and professional growth and values your ideas.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Lead requirements gathering and documentation for Guidewire modules (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter).
Collaborate with business stakeholders to define scope, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Facilitate Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and workshops to align business and technical teams.
Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-stream coordination.
Assist QA and development teams with clarifications and defect triage.
Maintain documentation including BRDs, UML diagrams, wireframes, and data mappings.
Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
5+ years of Business Analysis experience, including 3+ years with Guidewire (PC or CC).
Strong understanding of P&C insurance operations (underwriting, billing, claims).
Experience with Agile and hybrid delivery models.
Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and MS Office.
Ability to manage dependencies and communicate effectively across teams.
Familiarity with SQL and wireframing tools is a plus.
CCBA or CBAP certification preferred.
Nice to Have:
Experience with SmartComm, Grooper, or other insurance-related platforms.
Exposure to cloud-based Guidewire implementations.
Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe).

Be responsible for technical analysis, application development, application configuration, incident response and resolution, troubleshooting, testing, source code management and executing and managing change processes.
Work as a member of Agile team, develop software solutions by studying requirements analysis and information needs; conferring with stakeholders and IT Management; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; perform software design using software development fundamentals and processes, debug, test, and deploy software solutions.
Review, analyze, evaluate business processes, procedures, systems and make recommendations for improvements and changes.
Manage source code version control system artifacts.
Work with Business Analysts to design technical requirements and perform application changes.
Conduct unit testing, provide input for feasibility, and prepare systems documentation.
Work On-Call Rotation and After-Hours that is required to support responsibilities.
Perform other duties as assigned

Required qualifications to be successful in this role What you'll bring
6+ years experience with software and/or application development using multiple technologies, languages, databases, integrations, frameworks, systems, application development, testing and troubleshooting or other directly related experience.
Extensive knowledge of Java and Java programming tools, JavaScript, Groovy, Linux, Networking, SQL, Webservices/API, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, Python, using application servers such as Tomcat, containers, cloud computing, IAM, SAML, SSO, OIDC/OAuth.
o Experience with ForgeRock and DevOps is a plus.
o Bash and yaml are nice to have.
Agile Implementation experience is a plus.
Work within an environment with changing technologies and priorities, along with effectively prioritizing and handling multiple concurrent projects
Ability to come up to speed quickly, utilize advanced software development skillsets, work independently and effectively in a team environment, and ultimately mentor and support those attempting to reach your level of expertise and beyond.