Jobs Companies Guidewire Database Upgrade Specialist

About this Database Upgrade Specialist role at Guidewire

Guidewire · Remote · Ireland - Remote

Summary

As a Consultant you will be at the forefront of delivering cloud migrations to our global clients. This role is designed for individuals who are passionate about technology, eager to enhance their technical skills, and thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cloud migration Delivery: Delivery of Database Upgrade services to cloud migration customers.

  • Prototyping and Tooling: Contribute to innovation of tooling to automate the upgrade process. 

  • Mentoring and Continuous Improvement: Mentor junior team members and guide them. Lead and promote continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

  • Product Expertise: Learn and master your assigned Guidewire product and pass the required Guidewire certification as a subject matter expert within the expected timeframe.

  • AI: 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 outcome.

Technical & Functional Consultant skills:

  • Creative Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to tackle unique, often unforeseen technical challenges with innovative, pragmatic solutions.

  • Code Comprehension: Strong ability to analyze and understand diversely customized codebases with limited context, quickly identifying key components and making effective, context-aware modifications or enhancements.

  • Data Analysis: Ability to validate customer dataset, analyse for discrepancies, identify root causes for discovered issues, and apply path to resolution.

  • Escalation: Identify and highlight any potential delays or any other major issues with the project manager and/or tech lead.

  • Workstream & Priority Management: Effectively balance multiple concurrent workstreams, calibrating time and effort against shifting priorities and deadlines to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across engagements.

Required Skills/Experience:

  • 2+ years of hands-on industry experience with Object-Oriented programming (preferably Java), relational databases (data modeling/SQL), web UI (design and development), and XML.

  • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and LLMs is advantageous but not required. Interested in working with AI.

  • Code Conflict Management: Proficient in analyzing 3-way merge conflicts, inferring developer intent across multiple branches, and applying informed decisions to achieve correct, conflict-free outcomes.

  • Strong consulting skills including problem-solving, communicating effectively with customers, and knowledge contribution.

  • Required Experience: Java, GIT, SQL.

  • Preferred Experience: JSON, RESTful APIs, IntelliJ, SQL, Python, Gradle, AWS CLI.

  • Flexibility: Ability to work within a team and independently.

  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.

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.

Ready to apply to Guidewire?
Apply to Guidewire

About Guidewire

At Guidewire, we are utterly committed to customer success. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service to the P&C Insurance industry. And with the largest R&D team, services team, and partner ecosystem in the industry, we continually evolve and innovate to meet our customers’ needs. We put our values of Integrity, Rationality, and Collegiality first, harboring a culture of honesty and openness that our people never want to lose. And we each bring a little quirkiness—and a little genius—to the table. As the landscape of our industry continues to shift, we respond with flexibility and skill. We’re braving uncharted territory, pushing past the convent

See all jobs at Guidewire →

Similar jobs

Guidewire
Guidewire Technical Architect – ClaimCenter / Jutro
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early India - Bangalore Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 16h ago
Guidewire
Senior Consultant - Data lake/ ETL Testing
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early India - Bangalore Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
Guidewire
Technical Program Management, Guidewire Security
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early Canada - Toronto, Remote · location restricted
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4d ago
Guidewire
Senior Product Marketing Manager, ClaimCenter
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early United States - Remote · location restricted $139,000–$229,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5d ago
Guidewire
Senior Manager, Business Architecture
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early United States - Remote · location restricted $152,000–$222,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5d ago
Guidewire
DevOps Engineer
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early India - Bangalore Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5d ago
Guidewire
Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect, INOW
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early United States - Remote · location restricted $108,000–$192,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5d ago
Guidewire
Product Manager – Cloud Platform Provisioning & Persistence
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early Poland - Krakow Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 6d ago
Guidewire
Cloud Platform Support Engineer III- Japanese Speaker only
Guidewire
⚡ Apply early India - Bangalore Hybrid
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 6d ago

Sign up for suggestions tailored to the jobs you open and the searches you save.

More jobs at Guidewire

See all jobs at Guidewire →

Apply now
🤖

Whoa — hold up

JobsRadar was built for real people having a rough time in their job search — not for automated requests. You're clicking way too fast and you're now temporarily blocked.

Come back later. If you're genuinely job hunting, we've got your back — just act like a human.

Catch your next role the second it’s posted.

Create a free account and we’ll watch the boards for you — the instant a job matches your search, it lands in your inbox or Telegram. No digging, no refreshing.

Create free account

Free forever · takes 30 seconds · already have one?

Get an edge on your job hunt.

Join our Telegram channel for the stuff that helps you land the role — salary benchmarks, the weekly market pulse, and new-feature drops. No spam, just signal.

Join the channel — it's free