Roles

Solution Architects Role (Senior Manager):

• Shaping and defining the a large transformations programme’s Solution Architecture

• Defining and ensuring the implementation of the Solution Architecture, ensuring all Architecture deliverables are delivered on time to high quality

• Ensure that the Solution Architecture is proven and all significant technical risks are mitigated in up front in Sprint Road Map

• Ensure that the delivery streams understands the solution architecture and all User Stories are delivered using the defined architecture

• Ensure that the Non Functional Requirements and Architectural principles are defined and understood by all parties

• Support and Mentoring technical team to excel in the completion of their assigned activities and to further develop their own capabilities and delivery competencies

• Ensuring that the 3rd parties deliver value to the programme

• Ensuring that all Environments are defined, built and under configuration management

• Familiar with Integration and Data Architectures

• Ensure that the Solution Architecture is up to date, and published at regular intervals (Sprints)

• Protecting EY’s technical baseline, raising all changes in scope as change requests

• Build close relationship with Technical Authority and Third Parties, ensuring no surprises during gateway and acceptance processes and ensuring EY’s responsibilities are not extended

 

Business Analysts Role (Executive/Senior Consultant):

• Strong understanding of Agile requirement process and techniques

• Management of requirements using User Stories, Use Cases and Behaviour Driven Development 

• Ensure that all Requirement Deliverables are delivered on time to high quality

• Managing the requirement team in their activities including Workshop execution, User Story Elaboration, Storyboarding, Domain Modelling, end to end scenarios, etc.

• Planning and Estimating - pro-actively estimate, plan, monitor and re-plan resource and activities taking into account agreed financial and time constraints and quality/project objectives

• Understanding of Requirement Management in Package Enabled Transformation, incl. OOTB targets

• Ensure that appropriate traceability is defined, implemented and maintained

• Providing regular progress reporting of the requirement stream

• Quality Reviews – oversee the implementation of quality review activities within the requirement team in order to ensure the quality of the deliverables produced.

• Build close relationship with Requirement Stakeholders, ensuring no surprises during gateway and acceptance processes

• Identify, capture, resolve or escalate risks, issues and assumptions

• Work effectively with the other project streams particularly Technical and Testing streams

 

Guidewire Configuration Role (Executive/Senior Consultant):

• Configuration Developer is primarily responsible for modification of Guidewire application to conform to customer requirements
• Configuring screen layouts (PCF files) as defined by business, so it provides a means of capturing and viewing all necessary information.
• Implementing business rules and logic using GOSU language (Guidewire scripting language) as defined in customer requirements.
• Creating document and letter templates and supporting XML descriptor files
• Configuring end-to-end process on the Guidewire application for a new insurance product, such as a new Line of business.
• Support the requirement definition process, ensuring solution is implemented best practive in Guidewire
• Implementing administrative and operational parameters such as roles, and permissions, user attributes, region, Activity patterns etc.
• Providing end-to-end solution by liaising with product owners, solution architecture team and 3rd party vendors.
• Provide solutions for generating reports.
• Technical documentation of project deliverables.
• Awareness of Best Practice and OOTB principles

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Comfortable working in an Agile and Distributed delivery environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Excellent coding skills in XML and GOSU script and familiar with object-oriented concepts.
• Experience in Insurance systems development.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work with a team and assist them during various phases of development cycle.
• Ability to understand and respond to project and customer needs, while working under tight deadlines.
• Good experience with relational SQL databases (e.g. SQL Server, DB2, Oracle)
• Ability to liaise with other IT teams, external vendors or business users to provide technical solution options in both verbal and documented form.
• Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle and object-oriented analysis and design.
• Ability to take ownership and be proactive in problem resolution action to fix issues.
• Ability to guide and mentor new joiners or less experienced developers.
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Grades

Executive Responsibilities include: 

• Delivery on a client assignment;
• Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships;
• Identifying opportunities for and securing new business;
• Aiding proposals and bid teams;
• Participating in on-site EY delivery teams;
• Liaising with service line teams, functional specialists and Area Partners;  

Manager Responsibilities include: 

• Managing a client assignment;
• Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships;
• Identifying opportunities for and securing new business;
• Aiding proposals and bid teams;
• Developing high quality technical proposals;
• Managing on-site EY teams;
• Liaising with service line teams, functional specialists and Area Partners;

 Senior Manager Responsibilities include: 

• Managing a portfolio of clients and assignments and/or leading major assignments
• Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships and managing key EY accounts;
• Identifying opportunities for and securing new business;
• Leading proposals and bid teams
• Managing the development and delivery of high quality technical proposals;
• Monitoring staff availability and chargeability and supporting the development of less utilised staff;
• Providing quality assurance and monitoring risks;
• Managing assignment teams and third parties;
• Liaising with service line teams, functional specialists and Area Partners
• Acting as a career counsellor to a small team and being involved in the recruitment process as required.