Data Engineer

Are you passionate about leveraging data to drive innovation in the rapidly evolving finance and insurance space? Allianz is seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our dynamic team at the Allianz Benelux Data Office. As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of financial data products and data marts, ensuring consistency, predictability, and precision in a highly regulated environment.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to constantly innovate and implement the most efficient methods for collecting and preparing data for advanced analytics, master data management, and business intelligence. You will be at the forefront of expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, while also optimizing data flows for cross-functional teams, making a direct impact on our data-driven initiatives.

As a key member of our team, you will collaborate closely with architects, BI analysts, IT experts, and data scientists, providing crucial support and ensuring optimal and consistent data delivery throughout the company. If you are ready to make a significant contribution to the future of finance and insurance through data engineering, we invite you to join us at Allianz.

What do we have to offer you? 

We believe that a good work-life balance is important, so you will have the possibility to work at least 60% from home with a full-time contract with a large degree of flexibility in how you arrange your working hours. When you will be ready for something new, you will have the opportunities for plenty of internal mobility options within Allianz!  

In addition to everything above, you are entitled to: 

• We offer you a full-time challenging role in an international landscape based in Brussels or Rotterdam; 
• Working in a dynamic environment at Allianz, world leader in insurances 
• You will work from our new offices within city center Rotterdam, or from walkable distance from Brussel-North station; 
• A pleasant working atmosphere within an experienced and enthusiastic team 
• Development opportunities and a nice salary package supplemented with fringe benefits which differ on the country you will be based out of 

What does the team and department look like? 

As member of the Data Engineering Chapter, you will be working within our BeNeLux Data Office department with data experts on various projects including centralized reporting initiatives for Finance department. The Data Office department directly reports to the CFO. 

Our product and project portfolio drives many business initiatives across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Claims, Operations and Pricing. The projects are executed in squads of which you will be part of, making a difference for Allianz in a scaled, Agile way. 

 As Data Engineer, we count on you for the following tasks: 

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline based on modern data toolstack 
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements 
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc. 
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources 
• Assist in mapping data from physical to logical data models 
• Keep our data secure and properly inventoried across the different parts of the organization including different department in Finance  
• Play a key part in the activities around data governance, data quality, metadata management and data security 

What will you bring to the table?

As an ideal candidate you will thus be an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys both building data systems from the ground up as well as optimizing existing ones. In this role, you will be working in a multi-cultural team, liaising with different departments and colleagues from different countries. Hence, full proficiency in English is a must. 

• Proven experience in a data engineering (or similar) role  
• Expertise with Datawarehouse tools and technologies. e.g. Snowflake  
• Expertise on engineering Enterprise Datawarehouse solutions using DataVault 2.0 methodology 
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.  
• Experience with ETL/ELT modelling and automation tools e.g. WhereScape, DBT, SQLDbM, etc. 
• Experience in deployment and configuration of CI/CD pipelines 
• Development experience in data orchestration tools, e.g. Airflow 
• Working experience of modern cloud platforms and data platform capabilities in Azure, AWS, GCP, etc. 
• Experience with data governance tooling is a nice to have 
• Experience using the following software/tools is an asset: 
• Experience on data visualization and BI reporting tools e.g. MicroStrategy, PowerBI 
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools 
• Experience on Self Service BI tools e.g. Alteryx  
• Strong communication skills. Knowledge of excellent and fluent English is a must. Dutch and French language knowledge is good to have 
• Experience with agile way of working is an asset. 

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Allianz is an equal opportunity employer and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.