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The Integration Technical Lead is a technical role responsible for architecting, implementing, and governing end-to-end integration solutions across Allianz's insurance business domains — including P&C Retail, Commercial, Health, and Life. The role combines deep hands-on expertise in modern integration technologies with strong delivery management, cross-functional stakeholder collaboration, and technical leadership to ensure all integration initiatives are delivered on time, to quality, and in alignment with Allianz's architectural standards.

1. Integration Design & Development

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of integration solutions, ensuring full alignment with business objectives, insurance domain workflows, and Allianz technical standards.
• Define and maintain integration mapping between applications, including source-to-target data mappings, message transformation rules, and canonical data models.
• Apply and enforce integration best practices and patterns — synchronous REST/SOAP APIs, asynchronous messaging (Kafka, MQ), event-driven architecture, and webhook-based integrations.
• Oversee the creation and continuous maintenance of technical documentation: integration guides, API specifications (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), sequence diagrams, and data dictionaries.
• Ensure integration solutions meet security requirements including OAuth 2.0, SAML, mTLS, and API gateway policies.

2. Integration Delivery Management

• Define detailed integration timelines, milestones, and delivery plans in alignment with overall programme schedules.
• Continuously track integration delivery progress and proactively report status, risks, and blockers to leadership via structured dashboards and governance forums.
• Maintain an integration delivery register, tracking each interface from design through testing to production deployment.
• Identify and escalate delivery impediments early, coordinating resolution across workstreams to avoid programme-level delays.

3. Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide day-to-day technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to integration developers and engineers.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, domain architects, and other technical leads to ensure cross-programme integration consistency and reuse.
• Champion innovation by evaluating emerging integration technologies (e.g., AsyncAPI, GraphQL Federation, event mesh) and driving adoption where appropriate.
• Establish and enforce integration standards, coding guidelines, and governance frameworks across the integration team.

4. Workstream & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as the primary integration point of contact for all workstreams; facilitate collaborative working sessions to clarify integration requirements and unblock dependencies.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and project managers to gather integration requirements, validate solution designs, and agree on interface contracts.
• Bridge the communication gap between technical integration teams and non-technical stakeholders — translating complex technical concepts into clear business language.
• Enable blocked workstreams by coordinating with other stakeholders (infrastructure, security, vendors, external parties) to resolve integration impediments promptly.

5. End-to-End Flow Coverage & Quality Assurance

• Maintain continuous focus on end-to-end integration flow coverage — ensuring no interface is left undocumented, untested, or unmonitored.
• Define and enforce quality standards for all integration components, covering functional correctness, performance SLAs, reliability, error handling, and security compliance.
• Oversee integration testing strategies: unit, integration, contract (consumer-driven), regression, and performance testing.
• Implement and monitor integration observability — logging, tracing, alerting, and SLA dashboards in production environments.

6. Continuous Improvement

• Proactively monitor integration platform performance; identify, prioritise, and drive optimisation opportunities.
• Stay abreast of industry trends in integration, API management, and event-driven architecture to continuously enhance Allianz's integration capabilities.
• Contribute to the maturity of integration practices by introducing tooling improvements, automation, and reusable assets.

Insurance Domain Expertise (Essential)

• Strong, hands-on experience working within the Insurance domain — with deep understanding of at least two of: P&C Retail, Commercial Lines, Health, and Life insurance.
• Familiarity with core insurance concepts: policy lifecycle, claims processing, underwriting, reinsurance, product configuration, and regulatory reporting.
• Experience integrating with insurance platforms and ecosystem components such as policy administration systems, claims management systems, billing engines, and broker portals.

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in integration technologies: RESTful APIs, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka, JMS/MQ messaging systems, and event streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Azure Integration Services (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid), or equivalent.
• Proficiency in API-first design principles, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, and API lifecycle management via tools such as Apigee or Azure APIM.
• Knowledge of integration patterns: request-reply, publish-subscribe, saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and data replication patterns.
• Understanding of security standards for integrations: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, mTLS, JWTs, and API gateway security policies.
• Experience with data governance, schema management (e.g., Confluent Schema Registry), and data quality controls in integration pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for integration deployments (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
• Familiarity with cloud-native integration solutions, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.
• Exposure to Allianz-specific technical standards, architecture governance processes, and enterprise tooling is a strong advantage.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., MuleSoft Certified Developer, Azure Integration Services Specialty, Confluent Certified Kafka Developer) are desirable.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-system integration issues under time pressure.
• Strong communication skills — able to present technical topics clearly to senior leadership and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent delivery workstreams in a fast-paced, matrixed organisation.
• Collaborative, outcome-focused mindset with a track record of enabling teams to succeed through facilitation and removing blockers.

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.

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