Job Title: Tribe Technical Lead (Platform Common Services)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Tribe Technical Lead to be accountable and responsible to drive the technology transformation in AI solutioning for customer excellence, Disaster Recovery, Observability, Capacity Management practices, and cross-functional topics including FinOps & CMDB
This role combines deep technical expertise with technology transformation ownership skills to deliver value across infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

The "PCS" Tribe belongs to the CDC Pillar within Allianz Technology and provides the Allianz Group with services related to Customer Enablement, Disaster Recovery, Observability, Capacity Management, Sustainability, and few cross-Tribe topics like CMDB and service portfolio management.

As Tribe Technical Lead for the PCS Tribe, you will work closely with the Tribe Business Lead and the Product Owners of the individual squads.

Your responsibilities include:

Developing and technically implementing the product strategy in close coordination with the Product Owners
Ensuring that the product strategy is implemented globally
Continuously driving simplification of services and the system landscape
Ensuring a "Zero Impact Outages" strategy for the services
Identifying and leveraging synergies in services at a global level
Translating business requirements into technical solutions
Being the first point of contact for the squads on technical questions

What you bring:

Solid knowledge of AI tooling, Observability, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Management, VMware, X86 server technologies and Storage.
Experience in managing infrastructure services
Strong understanding of business requirements and excellent decision-making skills
Proven track record and experience in creating IT processes and/or IT solutions
Experience applying agile methodologies
Fluent in German and English
Experience with the product lifecycle

The 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 create an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow, and shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you come from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnic or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual o[rientation] (text cuts off here in the original)

Must-Have

Min.15-year experience in Infrastructure Operations / Management
Understanding of Dynatrace/ monitoring solutions in market
Proven experience in Capacity Management – planning, forecasting, and optimization of compute, storage, and network resources
Knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost management practices
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with strong backlog management skills
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business audiences
Basic Understanding of hybrid/multi-cloud environments (e.g., VMware, Azure, AWS)
Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities
Hands-on experience with on-prem infrastructure topics such as VMware/OS rightsizing, DR capacity management, CMDB/ITOM, and sustainability practices across x86 and data center environments

Reporting & Collaboration

Works direct with the Tribe lead of Platform Services, functionally reporting to Area Technical Lead
Collaborates with: Tribe Architect, other Tribe Technical Leads, Infrastructure engineers, Cloud Platform Teams, Finance/Controlling, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Vendor Management

Your benefits:

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
A fundamental grasp of AI tools will be an added benefit.

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