Tribe Technical Lead - Cloud Platform(m/f/d)

About the Job

As Tribe Technical Lead (TTL) - Cloud Platform, you will shape the technical direction and evolution of the cloud platform portfolio within CDC - Cloud and Data Center Services. Reporting to the Area Technical Lead, you will join a team of peer Tribe Technical Leads representing different CDC areas.

Working closely with the Tribe Lead, Product Owners, architects, technical leads and engineering teams, you will ensure technical delivery excellence across squads and develop a consistent, secure, resilient and cost-efficient platform roadmap. You will translate complex customer and enterprise requirements into scalable platform capabilities and enable cloud adoption through automation, self-service and strong technical governance.

What you do

• Set the technical vision and define the technology strategy, targets, KPIs and roadmap for the tribe. Ensure technical delivery excellence across squads and align architecture, engineering practices and platform lifecycle decisions.
• Drive the evolution of secure, resilient, scalable and cost-efficient cloud platform services, including reducing technical debt and continuously improving the Zero Impact Outages strategy.
• Establish and evolve platform guardrails, reference architectures and automated controls for security, compliance, resilience, observability and cloud economics. Enable cloud adoption through reusable platform services, automation, self-service and a consistent developer and customer experience.
• Create transparency across platform usage, architecture, operational health, risk and cost, and translate insights into clear improvement priorities. Identify, incubate and productize innovative platform capabilities, including AI-enabled engineering, governance and operations.
• Together with the Tribe Lead, ensure value delivery and cost efficiency, clarify priorities and balance customer demand, regulatory requirements, operational stability and strategic change.
• Set scope, prioritize conflicting requirements and manage technical dependencies within the tribe and across tribes and areas. Support Product Owners, Agile Masters, architects, technical leads and senior engineers in translating business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
• Represent the tribe on product, customer, provider and technology-related topics towards area and upper management, governance bodies and strategic partners. Shape and evolve the practice of Tribe Technical Leadership and foster engineering excellence, knowledge sharing and technical talent development.

What you bring

• Several years of experience in technical leadership for public cloud platforms, cloud-native services or large-scale infrastructure products. Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, including core compute, container, networking, identity, data and managed platform services.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery, for example Terraform, cloud-native templates, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and policy as code.
• Sound understanding of cloud-native architecture and platform engineering, including containers and Kubernetes, APIs, automation, self-service and developer platforms.
• Good knowledge of cloud security, compliance, resilience, observability and FinOps, and the ability to turn these requirements into scalable platform guardrails.
• Experience developing technical roadmaps and moving new capabilities from proof of concept into reliable, supportable and adopted services.
• Ability to simplify complex system landscapes, make sound technical trade-offs and communicate decisions clearly to engineering teams, customers, governance functions and senior management.
• Experience navigating the technology landscape of a large, complex, multinational organization, ideally in a regulated industry, combined with a hands-on mindset, curiosity for emerging technologies and a strong focus on measurable customer value.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is a strong advantage.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• 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

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

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 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.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

108401 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent