Senior Technical Architect_2966

Role overview

Senior Technical Architect_2966 at Allianz

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture governance, design reviews and architecture decision management across complex technology portfolios.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree. 15+ years of technology leadership across enterprise systems, architecture governance and modernisation.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience in Insurance, Financial Services, SaaS, Healthcare or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to global platforms supporting multiple regions, business domains, products or customer groups.
• Track record of modernising legacy estates, reducing technical debt and establishing reusable technology blueprints.
• Experience leading architecture discussions across distributed teams and senior governance forums.
• Experience with large enterprise systems, complex integration landscapes and globally distributed platforms will be advantage.
• Basic knowledge or experience with AI tools will be beneficial.
• 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.

Employment details

• Location: India

Additional role details

• Define enterprise architecture principles, roadmaps, standards and reusable patterns aligned to business strategy.
• Assess technology risk, security/compliance impact and technical debt; define practical remediation roadmaps.
• Guide cloud transformation, platform modernisation, observability and operational-excellence initiatives.
• Shape integration strategies covering APIs, services, event-driven patterns and cross-platform interoperability.
• Partner with senior stakeholders and mentor architects/engineering teams through design trade-offs and execution.
• Strong experience in Enterprise, Solution or Technology Architecture roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to architect and govern distributed, scalable, secure and resilient enterprise platforms.
• Deep understanding of architecture governance, ADRs, technology lifecycle management and architecture documentation.
• Hands-on background with cloud platforms, microservices, integration technologies, APIs and DevOps practices.
• Strong awareness of security, compliance, resilience, observability and operational risk in regulated environments.