Allianz—Group Technical Architect (Solution Architect) · 3313

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Description: We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our PCP team and take end-to-end ownership of the solution architecture across our platform landscape, driving technical direction, quality, and consistency at Allianz Technology. You will … - Own the target architecture and roadmap for the HR Platform Applications landscape — defining architecture principles, patterns, and guardrails across APIs, integrations, data, and security, and driving their adoption across teams. - Translate business and functional requirements into modular, scalable, and secure end-to-end technical solutions, ensuring non-functional requirements — availability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency — are engineered in from the start. - Guide solution design for new and evolving capabilities, running design reviews and validating architectural decisions across the portfolio. - Orchestrate cross-application dependencies and shared components, reducing technical debt through incremental modernization. - Create and maintain architecture artifacts (e.g. solution blueprints, ADOIT repository content) that describe the current and target state of the landscape. - Align with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Platform teams on standards, and drive architecture governance, IT risk assessments, and compliance reviews across the solution portfolio. - Present architecture strategies, target states, and design decisions to audiences ranging from delivery teams to senior management and Enterprise Architecture Boards, acting as a key voice of architecture for the domain. - Lead and develop a group of [number] solution architects — setting priorities, growing their skills, and ensuring consistent architectural quality across the landscape. - Partner closely with functional consultants, developers, and infrastructure specialists, and mentor development teams, to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and delivered to a high technical standard. Your skills - Around 14+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles, including experience leading or coordinating a team of architects, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, large-scale IT solutions. - Experience working within an established enterprise architecture setup/function, including its governance processes, review boards, and modeling standards. - Solid understanding of integration methodologies, API-first design, and modern application architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, cloud-native, event-driven). - Experience working within a platform/product environment, ideally with HR Platform Applications / HR applications or a comparable insurance/financial services IT landscape. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-system architectural issues. - Confident presenter: able to prepare and deliver architecture presentations and design walkthroughs, exchanging ideas concisely and logically while driving budget-conscious, cost-effective design decisions. - Proven stakeholder leadership and influencing skills across business, engineering, security, and operations audiences at various levels; excellent English communication. - Ability to produce pragmatic architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, roadmaps) and drive their adoption. - Proven experience across the full project lifecycle, from requirements gathering to solution design, development, testing, and deployment. - Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is considered an advantage. Your benefits: - 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 13,000 employees located in 22 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. Join us. Let´s care for tomorrow. 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. Skills: solution architecture, enterprise architecture, api design, integration methodologies, microservices architecture, cloud-native architecture, event-driven architecture, architecture governance, it risk assessment, architecture presentation, stakeholder leadership, architecture artifacts management, requirements gathering, solution design, team leadership, mentoring, architecture roadmap development, architecture standards development, architecture compliance, ai technologies, genai platforms