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