We are seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and highly skilled Solution Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Solution Architect, you will work closely with stakeholders and IT teams to design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient IT solutions across cloud and infrastructure platforms that meet current and future business needs.

You will

Responsible for designing scalable, reusable, and efficient IT solutions that meet current and future business needs.

Design and govern end-to-end solutions on Microsoft Azure ,Azure Functions, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and container platforms .

Develop a robust understanding of business processes and effectively map them to IT solutions.

Architect and optimize infrastructure and platform designs for high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery across on-premises and cloud environments.

Define and drive performance engineering, capacity planning, scalability, and cost optimization (FinOps) across the solution landscape.

Good to have knowledge about GIS and GIS related service including ESRI enterprise, ArcGIS Pro,Geoserver,Qgis.

High proficiency in Python and/or GoLang, with the ability to read, debug, optimize, and contribute directly to application code when required.

Establish infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerization, and observability standards in partnership with platform and DevOps teams.

Embed security, compliance, and regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR, DORA) into solution and infrastructure designs by default.

Explore and pilot AI and agentic AI use cases, assessing where LLM-based and agent-driven automation can add value to the solution landscape (a plus).

Work closely with Product Owners and Enterprise Architects to understand and translate different objectives into technical requirements.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Ability to stay updated with the latest technology trends and apply them effectively.

Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks is a plus.

Your skills

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, computer science, computer engineering, or similar

Overall experience of 10+ years and 5+ years of relevant experience as Solution Architect.

5+ years of hands-on application development experience using Java and/or Python on cloud platforms is essential.

Strong understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep/ARM), and Git-based workflows.

Deep, hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure services ,Functions(compute, storage, networking, identity/Entra ID, PaaS) and cloud solution design.

Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes, ideally Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS),AZURE Container instance (ACI).

Solid grounding in IT infrastructure fundamentals: networking, load balancing, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, and Linux/Windows platforms.

Demonstrated experience in performance engineering, scalability, and reliability — including load testing, monitoring/observability, tuning, and capacity planning.

Familiarity with cloud cost optimization (FinOps) and designing for both performance and cost efficiency.

Exposure to AI, GenAI, or agentic AI use cases (e.g. LLM integration, RAG, or agent-based automation) is a strong plus.

Proven experience with solutioning with strong understanding of software architecture and network design concepts.

Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to comprehend complex and diverse business domain challenges.

Work closely with Product Owners and Enterprise Architects to understand and translate different objectives into technical requirements.

Provide subject matter expertise for application security, performance, and scalability.

Ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong understanding of business processes and the ability to map them to IT solutions.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Ability to stay updated with the latest technology trends and apply them effectively.

Familiar with Agile methodology and Agile working environment.

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.

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.

Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

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