Senior Guidewire Cloud Migration Consultant

Senior Guidewire Cloud Migration Consultant

Summary

As a Senior Cloud Migration Consultant, you will spearhead the transition of global insurance leaders to the Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP). In this role you’ll collaborate with Architects on sophisticated upgrade strategies. You'll play a vital part in protecting project timelines by mitigating risks and leveling up the skills of cross-functional teams through hands-on mentorship

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and migration of Guidewire Cloud integrations, providing guidance and mentorship to consultants on solution architecture and design.

• Redesign legacy integrations to follow cloud-native patterns: REST/SOAP services, event messaging, plugins, and API orchestration

• Own Cloud Assurance remediation for integration tracks, ensuring compliance with security, resilience, and data validation mandates

• Define and implement API contracts, endpoint mappings, transformation logic, and message routing strategies

• Work closely with Cloud Architects and DevOps to ensure testability, automation, and release readiness of all integration code

• Support interface-level triage, performance tuning, and validation in non-prod and pre-prod environments

• Author Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, integration specs, and Postman collections for QA and downstream consumers

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

Technical & Functional Consultant skills:

• Guidewire Ecosystem: Core competency in PolicyCenter/ClaimCenter; deep understanding of the Guidewire Cloud Standards and ski releases

• Language & Scripting: Hands-on Gosu and Java; proficient in XML, JSON, and GUnit testing.

• Insurance Domain: Strong functional grasp of the Policy Lifecycle, Underwriting workflows, and FNOL 

• Cloud & Integration: Hands-on experience with Cloud API, REST/SOAP web services, Messaging plugins

• DevOps & Tools: Proficient in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git), Guidewire Hub, and code quality tools like SonarQube.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 8+ years of proven hands-on experience with Guidewire Cloud implementation  (minimum 1 upgrade experience as a senior consultant/ lead developer)

• Experience resolving Cloud Assurance issues and aligning with cloud deployment constraints

• Strong familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, Teamcity, Datadog) and release automation practices

• Cross-application experience with PolicyCenter and/or ClaimCenter

• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud integrations in Guidewire Cloud environments.

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

• Certifications

  • Guidewire Cloud Configuration Associate Certification (Preferred in any of XCenters)

  • Guidewire Cloud Integration Associate Certification (required)

  • Additional Cloud certifications are a plus.

About Guidewire

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level