Guidewire Cloud Migration IT Project Manager

Guidewire Cloud Migration It Project Manager

Location (Onsite/Hybrid, Onshore Si Offices): New York City, NY • Purchase, NY • Garden City, NY • Morristown, NJ • Conshohocken, PA • Charlotte, NC • Alpharetta, GA

Unit: It Project Management Office

Client: Sompo International

Visa: Us Citizen, Green Card

Rate: 90$ Hr On C2C

Role Summary

Sompo is seeking an experienced senior it project manager to lead the migration of guidewire policycenter and claimcenter from an on-premise environment to the cloud. This role requires expertise in cloud migrations, guidewire platforms, enterprise systems integration, and managing multi-disciplinary teams. The pm will ensure successful planning, execution, delivery, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and vendor oversight for this mission-critical program.

Role Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end migration of guidewire policycenter and claimcenter to a cloud environment.
• Develop project plans: scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and budgets.
• Ensure project alignment with organizational goals, compliance, and best practices.
• Manage performance and accountability of implementation vendors.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with business, it, and third-party vendors to ensure alignment.
• Provide clear, timely updates to leadership on progress, risks, and issues.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project communication.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify risks and create mitigation strategies for both guidewire systems.
• Proactively resolve issues to avoid delays and operational disruptions.

Team Coordination

• Coordinate developers, architects, bas, testers, and cloud/guidewire specialists.
• Allocate resources effectively across policycenter and claimcenter workstreams.
• Provide leadership, direction, and support to team members.

Technical Oversight

• Partner with technical teams on cloud design, configuration, and deployment.
• Ensure data integrity, system interoperability, and security throughout migration.
• Oversee system testing, validation, and performance verification.

Budget & Resource Management

• Manage project financials and maintain alignment with budget expectations.
• Ensure efficient resource planning and prioritization.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Provide bi-weekly status reports, metrics, and lessons learned to leadership.

Technical Qualifications

• 8+ years of it project management experience (m&a or it integration preferred)
• Proven experience managing guidewire policycenter and claimcenter implementations or migrations
• Expertise with cloud technologies, cloud migration strategies, security, and performance optimization
• Experience leading large-scale enterprise migrations across regions/business units
• 3+ years in commercial insurance
• Strong experience with waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies
• Deep knowledge of pmlc, sdlc
• Strong facilitation and cross-functional team leadership skills
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management experience
• Proficiency with ms project or other ppm tools
• Experience in change management and risk management

General Qualifications

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing complex programs
• Strong analytical, managerial, and leadership skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results under tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to bridge it and business priorities effectively

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technology, computer science, business, or similar
• Master’s degree preferred
• Pmp certification preferred, not required