Summary

Guidewire’s Product Development and Operations (PDO) team is hiring a dynamic leader to run cloud-native, big-data services that power the Guidewire Data Platform (GDP). You’ll build high-performing teams, drive product outcomes, and champion a customer-first mindset across engineering and cross-functional partners.
Why this role matters
Deliver scalable, secure, and reliable Data and AI/ML services that enable mission-critical P&C; insurance workloads.
Translate real customer use cases into explicit product requirements and measurable outcomes.
Raise the bar on engineering excellence, team performance, and cross-functional execution.
Strengthen Guidewire’s voice in the market through thought leadership and community engagement.
Job Description

What you’ll do
- Lead and grow multiple pods that architect and deliver cloud-native Data Platform services on AWS and Kubernetes, using modern data streaming stacks and a Data Mesh architecture.




- Drive the design and delivery of Gen AI solutions—including MCP servers and agentic services—and build AI-native proficiency across your teams.
- Identify and enable data monetization opportunities, turning platform capabilities into customer-facing, revenue-generating products.
- Partner with product management and engineering leadership to set and deliver quarterly and annual goals, framing problems and defining success metrics.
- Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration across PM, Architecture, SRE/SecOps, Support, and Field Engineering to land features on time and with quality.
- Lead through ambiguity with iterative development: lean discovery, rapid prototyping, A/B and canary rollouts, and telemetry-driven iteration, pivoting quickly on customer feedback.
- Run a rigorous performance management cadence: goals, 1:1s, growth plans, competency rubrics, feedback loops, and fair evaluations.
- Champion engineering best practices: API-first design, SDD, IaC/MLOps, observability, chaos/resilience testing, and data governanc

📌 Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Guidewire
📍 Bengaluru