Senior Guidewire Tech Lead – Cloud & Integrations

Tenzing Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible and hybrid working agreements

Option to purchase additional annual—?

Fully subsidised life and income-prot*

Discounted medical insurance

Comprehensive learning and development

Wellbeing initiatives including EAP

Inclusive culture with regular events

Job summary

Tenzing Ltd is recruiting Senior Guidewire Technical Leads to provide hands-on technical leadership across Guidewire implementation and cloud delivery programmes in Melbourne and across ANZ. You’ll bring deep Guidewire platform expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the ability to lead delivery squads through complex design and technology decisions.

This senior role balances technical ownership with stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and driving DevOps and testing automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience leading the delivery of complex technology projects or programmes.
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end projects, from initiation and planning through to deployment and post-implementation support.
• Demonstrated leadership of multiple workstreams, teams, and stakeholders, with responsibility for successful delivery outcomes.
• Strong experience across much of the Guidewire ecosystem, including Guidewire InsuranceSuite and Guidewire Cloud tools.
• Gosu and Java development, GUnit testing, PCFs, rules, messaging, and xCenter concepts.

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical design and delivery of Guidewire InsuranceSuite solutions across PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter, including integrations and Guidewire Cloud services.
• Acting as the primary technical authority on Guidewire programmes, owning solution design, technical decisions, and risk management.
• Guiding development teams across configuration, extension, integration, customisation, and testing using Guidewire frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Designing and overseeing integrations between Guidewire and external systems using modern, cloud‑aligned integration patterns (API‑based, messaging, file‑based, and event‑driven).
• Collaborating closely with client architects, business analysts, SMEs, delivery leads and QA to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Supporting Agile delivery through backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and technical roadmap development.
• Mentoring developers and technical team members, supporting capability growth, knowledge sharing, and certification pathways.
• Driving continuous improvement across DevOps, testing automation, cloud enablement, and development practice.

Skills

Guidewire Lead

Java development

Gosu development

Cloud delivery

Agile delivery

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

TeamCity

Datadog

Job description

Tenzing Ltd is recruiting Senior Guidewire Technical Leads to provide hands-on technical leadership across Guidewire implementation and cloud delivery programmes in Melbourne and across ANZ. You’ll bring deep Guidewire platform expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the ability to lead delivery squads through complex design and technology decisions.

This senior role balances technical ownership with stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and driving DevOps and testing automation.