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Job Title: Tribe Technical Lead (Platform Common Services)

Position Overview

• We are seeking a Tribe Technical Lead to be accountable and responsible to drive the technology transformation in AI solutioning for customer excellence, Disaster Recovery, Observability, Capacity Management practices, and cross-functional topics including FinOps & CMDB
• This role combines deep technical expertise with technology transformation ownership skills to deliver value across infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

The "PCS" Tribe belongs to the CDC Pillar within Allianz Technology and provides the Allianz Group with services related to Customer Enablement, Disaster Recovery, Observability, Capacity Management, Sustainability, and few cross-Tribe topics like CMDB and service portfolio management.

As Tribe Technical Lead for the PCS Tribe, you will work closely with the Tribe Business Lead and the Product Owners of the individual squads.

Your responsibilities include:

• Developing and technically implementing the product strategy in close coordination with the Product Owners
• Ensuring that the product strategy is implemented globally
• Continuously driving simplification of services and the system landscape
• Ensuring a "Zero Impact Outages" strategy for the services
• Identifying and leveraging synergies in services at a global level
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions
• Being the first point of contact for the squads on technical questions

What you bring:

• Solid knowledge of AI tooling, Observability, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Management, VMware, X86 server technologies and Storage.
• Experience in managing infrastructure services
• Strong understanding of business requirements and excellent decision-making skills
• Proven track record and experience in creating IT processes and/or IT solutions
• Experience applying agile methodologies
• Fluent in German and English
• Experience with the product lifecycle

The 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 create an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow, and shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you come from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnic or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual o[rientation] (text cuts off here in the original)

Must-Have

• Min.15-year experience in Infrastructure Operations / Management
• Understanding of Dynatrace/ monitoring solutions in market
• Proven experience in Capacity Management – planning, forecasting, and optimization of compute, storage, and network resources
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost management practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with strong backlog management skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business audiences
• Basic Understanding of hybrid/multi-cloud environments (e.g., VMware, Azure, AWS)
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities
• Hands-on experience with on-prem infrastructure topics such as VMware/OS rightsizing, DR capacity management, CMDB/ITOM, and sustainability practices across x86 and data center environments

Reporting & Collaboration

• Works direct with the Tribe lead of Platform Services, functionally reporting to Area Technical Lead
• Collaborates with: Tribe Architect, other Tribe Technical Leads, Infrastructure engineers, Cloud Platform Teams, Finance/Controlling, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Vendor Management

Your benefits:

• 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
• A fundamental grasp of AI tools will be an added benefit. 

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.