Data Developer Intern

Summary

Our Professional Services (PS) team partners with Property & Casualty insurers to implement and extend Guidewire’s cloud platform so customers can realize value faster and at scale. We combine deep product expertise, data fluency, and close collaboration with customers and partners to accelerate cloud adoption and deliver measurable outcomes. You’ll join a culture grounded in determination, collaboration, continuous improvement, and bravery, working in an Agile, learning-focused environment.
As a Data Developer Intern, you will help design and build data solutions that power our customers’ transformation journeys on Guidewire Cloud. You’ll apply your skills in programming and SQL to real implementation projects, learning how data migration, integration, and analytics enable insurers to run, differentiate, and grow their businesses. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be mentored by experienced consultants, contribute to billable work, and see how modern cloud, data, and AI capabilities come together in a mission-critical enterprise context.
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Job Description

What you’ll do

• Contribute to data migration and transformation tasks for customer implementations on Guidewire Cloud, helping reduce effort and time to value in line with PS goals to significantly cut implementation effort and timelines.

• Assist in designing, developing, and testing data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and modern object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, or similar).

• Help analyze source and target schemas, perform data profiling, and document mapping rules that support accurate, high-quality conversions for P&C insurance data.

• Support the implementation of data loading, validation, and reconciliation routines that enable trusted, production-ready data for our customers.

• Collaborate with consultants, architects, and partner teams in an Agile environment—participating in stand-ups, story refinement, code reviews, and demos.

• Contribute to reusable scripts, templates, and automation that make our Professional Services offerings more scalable and repeatable, aligning with PS priorities to industrialize and systematize services-led innovation.

• Communicate clearly with mentors and stakeholders, sharing status, risks, and learnings, and help capture best practices and project documentation.

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you’ll bring

Required

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

• Currently in the final year of, or recently completed, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Proficiency in at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java or Python, with an interest in learning additional languages and tools as needed.

• Working knowledge of SQL, including writing queries, joins, and basic optimization for data transformation and analysis.

• Familiarity with at least one cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and interest in learning how large-scale SaaS and cloud platforms operate.

• Understanding of core software engineering practices such as Agile development, version control, and test-driven development.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills, with attention to detail and data quality.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
   

Preferred

• Experience with Scala or a strong interest in learning it for data engineering use cases.

• Prior exposure to data engineering, ETL tools, or data integration projects (coursework, internships, or personal projects).

• Familiarity with insurance, financial services, or other data-rich domains.

• Comfort presenting your work to peers or stakeholders and leading portions of technical discussions.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first weeks, you’ll onboard to Guidewire’s culture and Professional Services methods, learn how our P&C insurance platform works, and pair closely with your mentor on a real project in Exton, PA, while working a hybrid schedule. Over your first 6 months (including your internship), you’ll contribute to concrete deliverables—such as data mappings, transformation scripts, test cases, and automation—that help our team reduce implementation effort, shorten time to cloud adoption, and increase customer value realization, directly supporting Professional Services’ FY26 priorities for AI-enabled, efficient services execution. As you grow, your work will influence how insurers use trusted data to transform their businesses on Guidewire, strengthening our reputation as the industry’s standard platform for P&C insurance and advancing our broader mission to combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to transform how insurers operate.

What’s in it for you

The people we employ give their all, and in return, we offer flexibility wherever we can, such as:

• Flexible work environment, including a hybrid schedule with in-office collaboration in Exton, PA.

• Health and wellness benefits.

• Paid time off programs including volunteer time off.

• Market-competitive pay and incentive programs.

• Continual development and internal career growth opportunities, including the Guidewire Basecamp experience for students and graduates.
   

All roles at Guidewire include a rich in-person orientation experience designed to connect you with our mission, culture, and teams from day one.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $52,000 - $78,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.