Hiring Manager: Bulent Ugurlu

Recruiter: Zoe Halvorsen

Pay Band: 7

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The Senior Manager of Digital Integration & Platform is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for the foundation that all five digital domains depend on. This role owns the API layer, microservices platform, event streaming infrastructure, cloud-native architecture, and the integrations that connect AllianzLife.com to financial product systems, downstream platforms, and third-party services.

This is a platform-first role in the truest sense and the team this manager leads enables every other domain to ship faster, more reliably, and with greater consistency. They are accountable for building and maintaining the Integration & Platform services defined in the Future Digital Reference Architecture: Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS API Gateway, Kafka event streaming (EBS), MongoDB per-service data schemas, Ping authentication, Vault secrets management, and a cloud-native CI/CD pipeline on AWS ECS/EKS.

This role reports to the Head of Digital & Ops Modernization and partners closely with the Senior Director of Web Modernization, domain engineering managers, and enterprise architects. It is a cross-team enabler; reliability, API governance, and platform quality here directly determine the velocity of every team above it.

What you do

API development & governance

Own the full API layer for AllianzLife.com including design, development, versioning, deprecation, and contract governance across all domains
Build and maintain the AWS API Gateway configuration including WAF rules, rate limiting, routing, and security policies
Establish and enforce API standards used by all five engineering domains: REST conventions, error handling, versioning strategy, and documentation requirements
Own the API catalog and developer documentation so internal teams can self-serve integrations without reliance on tribal knowledge
Implement and maintain authentication (SSO, JWT, OAuth) across all platform entry points
Manage Vault for secrets management, certificate rotation, and secure credential distribution across services

Microservices & integration platform

Lead the engineering and ongoing operations of the Java/Spring Boot microservices that power AllianzLife.com’s core capabilities and build Account Service, Money Out Service, Claims Service, and Service Requests
Own MongoDB per-service schema design and data governance and ensuring schemas are right-sized, versioned, and maintained independently per service
Build and maintain Salesforce CRM integrations and all third-party API integrations that connect digital capabilities to back-office systems
Own middleware orchestration and data transformation patterns across the integration layer
Define and maintain integration contracts between the platform layer and all downstream systems: RSP, ID3, EODS, IHUB, and Producer Pro

Event-driven architecture & Kafka streaming

Own the EBS Kafka event streaming bus that underpins real-time integration across AllianzLife.com and downstream systems
Design and maintain event schemas, topic governance, consumer group management, and producer patterns
Ensure event-driven flows are reliable, monitored, and recoverable including dead-letter queues, retry strategies, and incident playbooks
Drive adoption of event-driven patterns across domain teams to reduce synchronous coupling and improve platform resilience

Cloud-native infrastructure & DevOps

Own the cloud-native platform on AWS including ECS/EKS container orchestration, networking, IAM, and service mesh configuration
Lead infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AWS CDK all infrastructure is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and automated
Own the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline including branch strategy, PR gates, build and test automation, and deployment to AWS ECS/EKS
Drive legacy system decommissioning with a sequenced, risk-managed migration plan that minimizes disruption to downstream consumers
Establish and maintain platform SLAs for availability, latency, and deployment frequency tracked through Dynatrace observability

Observability & platform reliability

Own Dynatrace as the full-stack observability platform — APM, distributed traces, log aggregation, RUM, SLO dashboards, and alerting
Define and enforce SLO targets for all platform services — ensuring the team is measuring what matters, not just what’s easy
Own on-call rotation and incident response for platform-layer issues — building a culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement
Ensure platform health metrics are visible to all domain teams as a shared signal for release readiness

AI-augmented engineering

Embed AI-augmented development practices into the team’s engineering workflow: AI code review and generation, automated test coverage, and intelligent PR analysis
Partner with the Architecture domain to evaluate and adopt emerging AI-first tooling (Anthropic Claude Code and equivalent) that improves platform engineering velocity
Champion the AI-first operating model within the Integration & Platform domain as a foundational practice, not an optional add-on

Engineering leadership & culture

Lead a full-stack platform engineering team — hiring, developing, and retaining engineers with deep expertise in Java, AWS, event-driven architecture, and API platform engineering
Actively participate in technical decisions — conduct code reviews on microservices, infrastructure-as-code, and API contracts; shape architectural choices with the team
Establish a strong platform engineering culture: code review discipline, tech debt budget per sprint, shared definition of done, and zero-tolerance for unmonitored production incidents
Own the Integration & Platform team’s slice of the single prioritized backlog — ensuring stories are ready, sequenced, and clearly prioritized against platform stability and new capability work
Use DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR — as active coaching tools, not reporting artifacts

What you bring

Required

8–10 years of experience in platform, integration, or backend engineering, with at least 3–4 years leading and managing engineering teams
Demonstrated engineering background in Java/Spring Boot microservices — must be able to conduct meaningful code reviews, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and engage credibly on implementation details
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native services including API Gateway, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking — not just familiarity, but production ownership
Experience building and operating event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms
Experience with API gateway management, REST API design standards, and OAuth2/JWT authentication patterns in production environments
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK — all infrastructure version-controlled and peer-reviewed
Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tooling — building pipelines that deploy to containerized cloud environments
Proven track record leading agile teams with sprint planning, backlog management, and delivery execution in a platform engineering context
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline

Preferred

Experience with Dynatrace or equivalent full-stack observability platforms (APM, distributed tracing, SLO management)
Familiarity with Ping Identity products — PingFederate SSO, JWT token management, or Ping/OAuth2 identity flows
Experience with MongoDB and per-service schema design in a microservices context
Experience with HashiCorp Vault or equivalent secrets management platforms in a cloud-native environment
Experience in financial services or insurance technology, including familiarity with downstream policy administration and financial transaction systems
Exposure to AI-augmented development tooling — AI code review, automated test generation, or LLM-assisted PR analysis
Experience operating within a full-stack engineering model where teams own their full delivery stack without discipline silos

What we offer

We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working
We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes health insurance, company bonus scheme, 401(K) with company match, company paid holidays, paid time off, paid volunteer days, tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, an employee shares program and employee discounts 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.
The annualized base pay range for this role is $140,000 - 170,000. The annual base salary range represents a nationwide market range. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role, and the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate. The base pay is just one component of the ATA total compensation package. As part of our comprehensive compensation and highly rated benefits programs, ATA also offers eligibility for an incentive-based annual bonus.

About Allianz Technology

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.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for 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. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.

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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