Lead Data Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Job

The SimpliFi Data Pool is a central data repository hosted on Azure, designed to unify OE financial data and enhance cost efficiency. It serves as the primary source of accounting and reporting data, ensuring compliance with mandatory reporting requirements. The Data Pool is a key component of the SimpliFi program, integrated with SAP, providing a harmonized data model with Common Core components, including a globally harmonized Chart of Accounts and standardized accounting and reporting processes.

The ecosystem optimizes finance data management through key components: structured data storage (Staging Area, Raw Data Vault, Business Data Vault), customized feeder system integrations, seamless SAP connectivity via Azure functions, and a PowerBI-enabled reporting layer for in-depth analysis and data lineage transparency. It features Master and Reference Data Management (Informatica IDMC), rigorous data quality checks, and the SimpliFi Studio interface for user-friendly manual uploads and pipeline monitoring, ensuring data accuracy, reliability, and operational efficiency.

What you do

• Define and enforce data engineering standards — pipeline design patterns, naming conventions, modelling approaches (e.g. Data Vault). Make architecture decisions and translate business/domain requirements into technical solutions.
• Design and oversee end-to-end data pipelines: ingestion, transformation, loading. In SimpliFi terms, this means owning flows across Raw Data Vault, Business Data Vault, UJT, and CORE layers — often spanning tools like Databricks, Azure Synapse, and IDMC.
• Accountable for data quality at the pipeline level — defining checks, monitoring and resolving data issues before they propagate downstream.
• Guide junior/mid engineers, sets the bar for code quality, and conducts reviews. A key multiplier for team capability.
• Work closely with Data Modellers, MDM/RDM specialists, Data Architects, and IT component leads. Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business intent.
• Ensure pipelines meet data governance requirements (lineage, classification, access controls) and support gate processes where relevant.
• Act as a technical proxy in planning sessions, helping size effort, flag dependencies and unblock the team during sprint/delivery cycles.

What you bring

• Hands-on expertise building and operating large-scale pipelines — batch and streaming. Proficiency in tools like Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow and cloud-native equivalents (ADF, Glue, Dataflow). Experience with ETL/ELT patterns at enterprise scale. Practical experience with modern lakehouse/warehouse platforms —Databricks, Azure Synapse, or equivalents. Understands partitioning, clustering, query optimisation.
• Deep working knowledge of at least one major cloud Azure — compute, storage, networking, managed services. In enterprise contexts like SimpliFi, Azure is typically dominant (ADLS, ADF, Azure Databricks).
• Solid grasp of modelling paradigms — relational, dimensional (Kimball), and Data Vault 2.0. Ability to review and contribute to models, not just implement them. Strong SQL (complex transformations, performance tuning), Python (pipeline logic, data quality scripts), and familiarity with Scala or PySpark for distributed workloads.
• Experience implementing DQ rules, profiling, and monitoring — ideally with tools like Acceldata, Great Expectations, or Monte Carlo.
• Understanding of master and reference data flows — how golden records are created, maintained, and consumed. Experience with platforms like SAP MDG or Informatica MDM is a strong plus.
• CI/CD for data pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), version control discipline, infrastructure-as-code basics (Terraform), and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes awareness).
• Able to read and contribute to architecture documents — understands layers, zones and data flow patterns across a platform. Can engage meaningfully with architects without needing hand-holding. Know how to implement metadata capture, data lineage (e.g. via IDMC or Purview), and access controls. Experience navigating governance frameworks and gate processes
• Familiarity with Machine learning is a strong advantage.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

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.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

 100384 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent