Integration Architect _1915

Integration Architecture Lead – Insurance (13–15+ years)

 • The Integration Architecture Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and leading the end‑to‑end enterprise integration architecture across multiple insurance Lines of Business, ensuring seamless interoperability between core platforms, finance systems, customer‑facing applications, data ecosystems, and external partner services under the guidance of Enterprise Architecture.

 • The role provides architectural leadership across agile delivery teams, vendor partners, and enterprise stakeholders, ensuring that all integration solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

• Key objectives include:

1. Leading strategic integrations with core systems including GL/Finance, CRM, Payment Gateway/Payment Factory, Fraud systems, Master Data Management, Input/Output Management Systems, Document Management, and Data Lakehouse platforms. 
2. Collaborating with business, operations, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure end‑to‑end alignment of technology decisions with business goals. 
3. Designing and driving API‑first and event‑driven integration patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems with the supports from respective platform owners and providers. 
4. Maintaining enterprise‑grade architectural artefacts such as integration blueprints, canonical models, interface specifications, event models, sequence diagrams, and architectural decision records.
5. Ensuring integration alignment with business processes across all Lines of Business, including new business, underwriting, policy lifecycle, collections, renewals, claims, and financial posting.
6.  Embedding harmonization, maintainability, reliability, performance, observability, auditability, and regulatory compliance into all integration designs and implementations. o
7. Guiding engineering leads, development teams, and vendors to ensure consistent implementation of integration patterns, coding standards, non‑functional requirements, and architectural governance. 

Qualification & Experience Qualification:

• Bachelor in Engineering/MCA/M.sc/ M.S./ MBA in Systems, IT or Insurance or Finance Technical:

• A senior technology leader (13-15+ years) with a proven track record of conceptualizing, designing, and delivering enterprise‑scale integration architectures in large, complex insurance or financial‑services organizations.

• Deep experience defining and governing enterprise-wide integration architectures, ensuring secure, scalable, high‑performing connectivity across policy, underwriting, claims, billing, customer, partner, and finance systems.

• Demonstrated success in leading integration modernization programs using API‑first, microservices‑based, and event‑driven patterns, establishing reusable services, canonical models, and shared integration assets across multiple Lines of Business. 

• Extensive hands‑on expertise designing and implementing integrations using: o REST APIs, JSON, XML. Agentic and MCP knowledge are bonus. o Event streaming platforms (Kafka or equivalent) o Messaging protocols and standards (AMQP, JMS) o API gateways and cloud‑native integration services (AWS, Azure)

• Strong delivery experience integrating with core insurance platforms across multiple domains (policy administration, claims, underwriting, billing, collections, renewals, customer servicing).

• Successful track record designing and delivering high‑volume, mission‑critical integrations that support real‑time transactions, straight‑through processing, and batch‑based enterprise workflows.

• Proven ability to design and govern integrations with:

1. GL / Finance Systems (SAP, Oracle Financials, or equivalent) 
2. CRM platforms (customer onboarding, sales, retention journeys) 
3. Payment Gateway / Payment Factory solutions
4. Fraud management, screening, risk scoring systems
5. Master Data Management (MDM) platforms 
6. Input/Output Management Systems 
7. Document Management & Customer Communication platforms 
8. Data Lakehouse or modern analytics ecosystems 

• Strong foundation in Java‑based technology stacks or equivalent enterprise application platforms, with the ability to guide engineering teams in selecting appropriate frameworks and technologies for integration workloads. 

• Solid understanding of non-functional architecture and the ability to design for: o security, identity, encryption, API protection o resilience, high availability, disaster recovery o performance, throughput, low-latency processing o observability, monitoring, logging, alerting

• Demonstrated experience operationalizing architectural governance in a global enterprise environment, ensuring compliance with standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements while enabling agility via federated delivery teams.

• Proven leadership capability guiding engineering leads, solution designers, platform teams, and vendor partners to deliver consistent, high‑quality, best‑practice integration implementations.

• Ability to produce and maintain comprehensive architectural artefacts including integration blueprints, sequence diagrams, event models, interface contracts, API specifications, and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

• Experience leveraging GenAI/LLMs to accelerate engineering quality review, documentation, design validation, and developer productivity (advantageous for modern operating models). 

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

About Allianz Technology

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 11,000 employees located in 20 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

D&I statement

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life. 

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