Platform Architect

About the Job

Are you ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact in the world of data platforms? We are on the lookout for a talented and experienced Platform Architect to join our dynamic team. If you are passionate about designing scalable and efficient infrastructure solutions and have a knack for defining development patterns, we want to hear from you! 

What You Do 

• Infrastructure Decisions: Design and implement scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure solutions. Evaluate and select the best technologies and tools to support our platform requirements.

• Development Patterns: Define and enforce best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and consistent code. Collaborate closely with lead developers to implement these patterns effectively.

• Technical Guidance: Provide leadership and guidance to technical teams, ensuring alignment of technical strategies with business goals.

• Technical Consistency: Oversee technical consistency across platform deliveries, conducting regular reviews and audits to maintain quality and performance.

• Documentation: Create and update comprehensive documentation for platform architecture, infrastructure, and development patterns, ensuring accessibility and clarity for all stakeholders.

• Stakeholder Interaction: Engage actively with business leaders, project managers, and technical teams to gather requirements and provide technical insights. Communicate complex concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders.

What You Bring 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Platform Architect or similar role, with a focus on data platforms for at least 2 years.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure design, cloud technologies, and development patterns.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Proficiency in documentation and technical writing.
• Experience with agile methodologies and project management tools is a plus.

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 balancing family and career and help our people return from career breaks with valuable experience. Access to over 10,000 on-demand learning resources and programs supports you in taking control of your career development.
• Actual work-life balance policies: entry-leave flexibility of 2 hours every day, reduced schedule on Fridays and during summer, 26 holiday days per year, recoverable working hours, as well as a hybrid workplace model.
• Relocation service for international transfers.
• An open and international working environment.

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 with running, optimizing, transforming, and innovating 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 Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.

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 agency or search firm recruiters. When we engage with recruitment agencies, the partnership 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 is ultimately employed by Allianz.

90517 | Data & AI | Profesional / Senior | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Jornada completa | Indefinido