Platform Engineer (m/w/d) - Financial Market Data Platform

IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (IDS) unlocks the value of data for the global investment industry: We validate, refine, and link data from a wide variety of sources and make it available for mission-critical processes along all investment strategies and products quickly, worldwide, and at any time. Fund management companies, insurance companies, banks and pension funds can use IDS to access a flexibly scalable data platform as well as all necessary analyses and reports in the desired format. As a 100% subsidiary of Allianz SE, IDS has stood for stability, reliability and certified security in the handling of its customers' data since 2001.

90647 | IT & Entwicklung | Berufserfahren | | IDS | Vollzeit | Dauerhaft

JOB PURPOSE/ROLE

As a Platform Engineer, your responsibility is to ensure the reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the IDS Market Data Platform — a complex, Perl‑based system used for market data acquisition, processing, and delivery. In this role, you combine technical expertise, market‑data domain knowledge, and operational excellence. You will improve system reliability, manage incidents, integrate with vendors, and work closely with stakeholders. You’ll also help migrate business logic to a modern cloud platform, building your cloud skills and making a significant impact.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee the daily operations of the IDS Financial Market Data platform, including job control, batch execution, system load balancing, and failover handling. 
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve system incidents, ensuring timely root‑cause analysis and durable fixes.
• Execute planned maintenance activities, deployments, and upgrades to secure ongoing system health and stability.
• Maintain and optimize vendor and client data delivery workflows, including spooler processes, parsing logic, and file transformation pipelines.
• Support the transition from the current environment to the new cloud based system, including preparation, knowledge transfer, testing activities, and alignment of operational processes to future state architecture.

KEY REQUIREMENTS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong Perl programming expertise, including debugging and maintaining and developing business logic.
• Solid Linux and Shell scripting skills for operations, automation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with SQL and Oracle databases, especially in data‑processing environments.
• Understanding of financial market data, including equities, indices, FX, and corporate actions is desirable.
• Hands‑on incident management experience, with strong troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis abilities.
• Proficiency with file‑based workflows (XML, CSV, Excel) and communication protocols like SFTP, FTP(S), HTTP(S), REST, and SOAP is desirable.
• Operational experience in mission‑critical systems, including batch jobs, load balancing, failover, and maintenance tasks.
• Python and Azure Cloud experience are beneficial.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Benefit from flexible working hours, a home office arrangement and 30 vacation days per year
• With us, you can expect an intercultural environment with flat hierarchies, a familiar working atmosphere as well as independent work in dedicated teams
• Become part of a company with start-up spirit that combines the advantages of the Allianz Group
• Take advantage of our wide range of training and development opportunities and shape your individual career path
• Benefit, among other things, from annual bonus payments, additional benefits, health initiatives, employee restaurant and a company pension plan

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.