The Demonstration Solutions team is responsible for delivering creative, solution-focused demonstration implementations to the Sales organization for presentation to prospects.
We are currently expanding our international team to dedicate more time and effort to support our sales efforts in specific regions.

The position involves working directly with members of the Sales team to configure complex solution demonstrations, assisting in localizing product to target market and participating in technical prospect discussions when necessary. This international support position will be responsible for owning region specific content and will serve as a feedback loop to the team located at company headquarters.

Although this is not a customer facing role it may include direct participation in sales opportunities and proofs-of-concept: designing, developing, and configuring creative and innovative solutions to prospects’ requirements.

The candidate filling this position will be based out of the Guidewire London office.

In addition we are looking for teammates who:
demonstrated ability to understand business process needs, rationalize those needs into technical solutions and to conceptualize which needs can be satisfied through our software

quickly, easily, and enthusiastically learn how to use new technology

are self-driven with a high level of creativity

capable of handling a wide variety of tasks - product configuration one minute, database management the next, articulating business solutions the next…

have strong oral and written communication skills

are highly technical with experience in following areas:
Java language fundamentals (interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, threading)

Core J2EE technology (Application servers, JSP, Servlets)

Web presentation and control layer technology (JSF, Struts, AJAX)

Databases (SQL, transactions, isolation levels, Oracle, SQL Server)

Data persistence strategies (ORM, Hibernate, EJB 3.0)

Distributed computing infrastructure (caching, coherence, network topology)

Security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, LDAP, JAAS)

Computational complexity (orders-of-growth, basic algorithms)

Operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX)

Source control and build frameworks (Subversion, CVS, Perforce, Ant, CruiseControl)

Software testing and test frameworks (JUnit, JMeter)

Integration mechanisms (messaging, synchronous, asynchronous, RMI, JMS, MQ, SOAP)

This position requires the ability to travel and often that travel will be International. The estimated travel is 10-20%, including trips to our headquarters in the United States

Why Guidewire?

As a team, our mission is to provide distinguished consulting and support services to prospects, partners, and customers which result in 100 percent reference-able customers which guides us in all that we do.

Guidewire has pursued one mission from its founding as a company in 2001: to be the pre-eminent provider of next-generation core systems — policy, claims, and billing — to the global property-casualty (general) industry. All of our employees understand that we serve only one industry and strive to solve one problem : to enable insurance carriers to migrate completely from legacy systems to a modern core system platform. We have recruited extensively among experts in the industry to ensure that we learn from veterans of insurance system design and implementation. Today, insurance experience is pervasive throughout the Guidewire organization, especially in our Product Management and Implementation Services groups. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, US with offices in London, Paris, Munich, Sydney, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and now, Dublin. Guidewire is a public company traded on NYSE under the symbol GWRE.
Guidewire Software, Inc. - 14 months ago