DBA Lead Consultant - Guidewire

The Senior Guidewire DBA will play a key role in supporting day‐to‐day operations, enabling smooth upgrades and migrations, and ensuring adherence to governance, security, and change management standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide database administration support for Guidewire applications (Policy Centre, Claim Centre) on Oracle.
• Support Guidewire SaaS migration activities, including data readiness, validation, cutover support, and post‐migration stabilisation.
• Perform database monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and issue resolution.
• Manage backup, recovery, and disaster‐recovery processes.
• Support environment refreshes, upgrades, patches, and release activities.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory controls.
• Maintain and update DBA documentation, runbooks, and knowledge‐transfer artefacts.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes.

Skills

• Total 10+ years of DBA experience.
• 5+ years’ experience as a DBA supporting Guidewire applications.
• Advanced Oracle Database administration (installation, configuration, tuning, backup/recovery).
• Experience supporting Guidewire cloud / SaaS migration or large‐scale platform migrations.
• Knowledge of data migration, data validation, and reconciliation practices.
• Experience with high availability, failover, and disaster‐recovery setups.
• Exposure to automation and scripting (e.g., Shell, SQL, Python).
• Familiarity with monitoring and performance tools relevant to Oracle and Guidewire.

Education

• Any Bachelor’s degree preferred in the field of Information Technology