Assistant Architect-Blockchain (Associate Architect)_2539

Overall Objectives of Job

As a Full Stack Lead, you will be a key technical leader responsible for guiding development teams, architecting scalable enterprise solutions, and ensuring successful delivery of complex web applications. While leveraging emerging GenAI capabilities where appropriate, your primary focus will be on technical leadership, architectural excellence, and team enablement.

• Technical Leadership & Team Enablement (30%)
  • Lead and mentor a team of full-stack developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence
  • Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and establish coding standards across the team
  • Drive technical decision-making and resolve complex technical challenges
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and ensure effective sprint planning and execution
• Solution Architecture & Design (25%)
  • Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications that align with business requirements and enterprise standards
  • Create and maintain architecture artifacts including system diagrams, and technical specifications
  • Architect seamless integration with existing enterprise systems APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
  • Address technical debt and drive modernization initiatives
• Development & Best Practices Implementation (20%)
  • Hands-on development of critical components and proof-of-concepts to validate architectural decisions
  • Define and implement best practices for software development
  • Ensure application responsiveness, security, and scalability across platforms and devices
  • Drive adoption of engineering excellence standards across the team
•  GenAI Integration & Innovation (10%)
  • Identify opportunities to integrate GenAI capabilities (e.g., LLMs, AI-assisted development tools)
  • Collaborate with AI/ML teams to operationalize GenAI features from prototype to production
  • Stay informed on GenAI trends and evaluate their applicability for enhancing developer productivity and user experiences
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication (10%)
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, QA, DevOps, Security) to gather requirements and ensure alignment
  • Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing (5%)
  • Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date technical documentation
  • Lead knowledge sharing initiatives including tech talks, CoP, and internal training sessions
  • Document architectural decisions and maintain decision logs for auditability

Qualification, Experience and Skills

Core Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Experience:
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in solution architecture and design.
  • 7+ years of total industry experience in technology roles spanning software engineering, data science, or enterprise architecture. 
• Technical Skills:
  • Proficiency in enterprise architecture practices: 
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API design, and middleware (e.g., Kafka, REST/gRPC). 
  • Hands-on experience preferred in designing and building solutions in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
  • Experience working in cloud native architecture like docker, k8s.
• Soft Skills:
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Have worked in Agile software development framework (e.g. Scrum) and tools (e.g. JIRA)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry Exposure:
  • Domain expertise In Insurance industry
  • Expertise in GenAI tools and frameworks: Model understanding & fine-tuning (e.g., Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI API), Long term and short term memory management - Vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus), orchestration tools and MLOps pipelines. 
  • Experience integrating GenAI with legacy systems (ERP, CRM), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern data stacks (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake). 
• Architecture Frameworks:
  • Certifications in enterprise architecture (TOGAF)

• Key Differentiators:

  • Experience designing multi-tenant GenAI platforms for large enterprises. 
         Published thought leadership (blogs, whitepapers) or contributions to open-source projects.

Skills/Specific Tasks/Activities performed

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise web applications.
• Lead and mentor a team of full-stack developers, fostering technical excellence and collaboration.
• Develop and maintain front-end and back-end components of complex web applications.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts including system diagrams, data flows, and technical specifications.
• Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, and quality guidelines across teams.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to architectural principles and standards.
• Architect integration solutions with enterprise systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, QA, DevOps) to gather and refine requirements.
• Identify opportunities to integrate GenAI capabilities into applications and workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges to optimize application performance.
• Participate in hiring processes including technical interviews and candidate assessments.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing through tech talks, training sessions, and documentation.
• Communicate technical concepts and decisions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with basic AI tools is considered an advantage. 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.  

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow. 

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.