Senior Data Engineer (Azure) | Hybrid

At Allianz Life, we are guided by our mission – we secure your future – and by our common goal of caring for tomorrow. We care for our employees by promoting an inclusive culture where everyone has the opportunity to grow and be rewarded for their success. We care for our customers by creating new products that help them protect their families and pursue their retirement goals. We care for our community by giving time, resources, and donations. And we care for the future by supporting sustainability, protecting the local environment, and promoting social equity.

What you do:

The Senior Data Engineer (Azure) is responsible for design, build and maintenance of our Azure data platform to meet the needs of our data and analytics organization and serve the needs of key stakeholders and decision makers. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of data architecture, data processing, and the Azure platform. You will report to the Manager of Data Engineering. 

Key Responsibilities:

Technical

• Proven ability to design and build complex, scalable, efficient, and reliable data pipelines in cloud
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Manage data lake environment, including blob storage
• Help implement new data mapping, pipelines, and delivery
• Experience developing interactive dashboards for monitoring data pipelines, and capturing systems performance metrics
• Solid understanding of relational databases (Azure SQL), and NoSQL databases
• Apply best practices for cloud-based performance, security, and cost optimization
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control

Strategic Thinking

• Collaborate with analytics and data science teams to understand company needs and ensure our data platform can enable use cases across the business
• Partner with data governance team and adhere to data governance policies and standards to ensure data integrity and compliance

Process and Documentation

• Participate and help lead in all aspects of project lifecycle from requirement gathering, data modeling, development, deployment, and monitoring
• Execute on and continuously improve team process, standards, documentations, and other best practices

What you bring:

• 4-5 years’ experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in Azure cloud platform building data pipelines
• Experience with Python and Spark
• Experience with blob storage

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. We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We 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 ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us.  Let’s care for tomorrow.  #LI-BK1