Guidewire Data Conversion BA

Job Overview:

Guidewire Data Conversion Business Analyst (BA)

Guidewire PolicyCenter / ClaimCenter / BillingCenter data conversion

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the bridge between business and technical teams for all data conversion activities.
• Gather, analyze, and document business and data migration requirements, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Collaborate with data architects, developers, and QA teams to define data mapping, transformation, and validation logic.
• Review and validate source-to-target mappings (STTM) and ensure adherence to data quality and compliance standards.
• Facilitate and document data profiling, cleansing, and reconciliation strategies.
• Support the development of migration test cases, test data, and validation scripts in collaboration with QA teams.
• Conduct UAT sessions to validate migrated data against business expectations.
• Identify data migration risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders for cutover planning, data load validation, and post-migration verification.
• Provide ongoing support during the conversion cycles (mock, dry runs, production) and post-implementation stabilization phase.
  

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5-8 years of experience as a Business Analyst, with 3+ years in Guidewire data conversion/migration projects.
• Strong knowledge of Guidewire suite (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter) and underlying data models.
• Experience in data migration methodologies, ETL tools, and data validation techniques.
• Solid understanding of insurance domain processes (Policy, Claims, Billing).
• Hands-on experience with data mapping, transformation rules, and reconciliation reports.
• Familiarity with SQL for data analysis and validation.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodology.
  

Nice-to-Have:

• Mammoth Data Migration Certification or Guidewire certification.
• Experience with data conversion utilities (Informatica, Talend, SSIS, or Guidewire's ETL framework).
• Experience working with onshore/offshore delivery models.