Enterprise Architect_1898
IN
Principle IT Architect / Lead IT Architect / Area Architect – Insurance (16+ years)
Role purpose
- IT architecture custodian of an entity – Responsible and accountable for the entity-wide end-to-end IT architecture driving business goals while adhering to Allianz’s strategic architecture framework and governance.
Key responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Area (an entity in this case) architecture — authoring and maintaining architectural documentation, patterns, and roadmaps aligned with Allianz standards and guardrails, supported by lead domain and tribe architects.
- Chair architecture governance forums to drive timely, informed, and transparent decision-making across all Lines of Business; maintain architecture compliance transparency and manage deviations and exceptions.
- Proactively identify, assess, and steer architectural risks with relevant stakeholders; document compliance gaps, approved deviations, and remediation actions.
- Lead integration architecture across the full insurance and supporting domain landscape — covering core insurance systems, GL/Finance, CRM, payment, fraud detection, master data management, input/output management, document management, and data lakehouse platforms — championing API-first and event-driven patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems.
- Align technology decisions with business processes across all Lines of Business — new business, underwriting, policy lifecycle, collections, renewals, claims, and financial posting — advising management, business stakeholders, and delivery teams on non-functional requirements and IT operational considerations.
- Guide engineering leads, development teams, and vendor partners in the consistent implementation of architecture patterns, standards, and non-functional requirements, embedding scalability, security, reliability, performance, observability, auditability, and regulatory compliance into all designs.
Qualification:
- Bachelor in Engineering/MCA/M.sc/ M.S./ MBA in Systems, IT or Insurance or Finance
Technical:
- 16+ years in technology, with a significant portion in senior architecture roles within large, complex insurance or financial services organizations; recognized internally as the go-to authority on integration and solution architecture.
- Deep expertise defining, governing, and evolving enterprise-wide integration architectures — spanning policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, collections, renewals, customer servicing, and financial posting — across multi-LOB, multi-vendor environments.
- Proven track record leading integration modernization programs: establishing API-first and event-driven architectural patterns, canonical data models, and reusable integration assets that scale across the enterprise.
- Broad and credible knowledge of modern integration patterns and technologies — including API management, event streaming, and cloud-native integration services on AWS and Azure — sufficient to set direction, evaluate trade-offs, and hold engineering teams and vendors to architectural standards.
- Demonstrated experience governing integration architecture across the full supporting domain landscape: GL/Finance, CRM, payment, fraud and screening systems, master data management, input/output management, document management, and data lakehouse platforms.
- Strong non-functional architecture sensibility: able to set and enforce architectural requirements for security, resilience, performance, observability, and regulatory compliance, and translate them into engineering standards that delivery teams can execute against.
- Experienced operationalizing architectural governance in a federated, global delivery model — standards setting, ADR processes, deviation management, compliance assurance — without becoming a bottleneck to agile delivery.
- Able to produce and maintain authoritative architectural artefacts — integration blueprints, event models, interface contracts, sequence diagrams, API specifications, and ADRs — and hold others to the same standard.
- Familiarity with GenAI/LLM tooling as a lever for engineering quality, design validation, and developer productivity is advantageous; experience with agentic patterns and MCP is a bonus.
- AI Expertise would be a plus.
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.
