Guidewire Data Migration Expert

Job Title: Guidewire Data Migration Expert

Location: London

About the Job you are considering:

We are looking for an experienced Guidewire Data Migration Expert with a minimum of 10 years of experience in the UK Insurance market, including significant hands-on experience delivering complex data migration programmes involving the Guidewire platform.

Hybrid working: 

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Lead end-to-end data migration activities from legacy insurance platforms to Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter.
• Define and execute migration strategies covering data extraction, profiling, cleansing, transformation, mapping, loading, reconciliation, and cutover activities.
• Design migration approaches for key insurance entities including policies, claims, billing, customers, brokers, payments, risks, and reference data.
• Develop and review source-to-target mappings between legacy systems and Guidewire data models.
• Establish repeatable migration frameworks supporting mock migrations, dress rehearsals, and production deployments.
• Lead discovery and impact assessment activities across legacy applications, data warehouses, interfaces, reporting platforms, and downstream systems.
• Identify business rules, transformation logic, data dependencies, and reconciliation requirements across the application landscape.
• Define and implement data quality, validation, reconciliation, and governance controls throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business SMEs, architects, Guidewire teams, and programme stakeholders to ensure successful migration delivery and business sign-off.
• Support migration planning, estimation, roadmap definition, and programme governance activities.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to migration teams while driving best practices and continuous improvement.
• Support production cutover, hypercare, post-migration validation, and operational transition activities.
  

Your Skills

• Strong experience delivering large-scale Guidewire Data Migration programmes.
• Hands-on experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and/or BillingCenter.
• Strong knowledge of migration lifecycle activities including profiling, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, cutover, and archival.
• Experience creating source-to-target mappings and supporting complex data transformation requirements.
• Strong understanding of insurance data domains including Policies, Claims, Billing, Customer, Broker, Risk, and Reference Data.
• Experience performing data discovery, impact assessments, dependency analysis, and migration planning.
• Expertise in data quality management, reconciliation, audit controls, and migration governance.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills with experience working across large and complex datasets.
• Experience working with data migration, ETL, reporting, and data warehouse platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
  

Desirable (Not Mandatory)

• Guidewire Certification.
• Experience of Guidewire Cloud transformation programmes.
• Experience with data migration tools and automated reconciliation solutions.
• Exposure to Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or Cloud Data Platforms.
• Experience working on insurance platform modernization and legacy system decommissioning programmes.
• London Market Insurance experience would be advantageous.
  
  

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
• Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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