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Platform Engineering Lead (Architecture, Reliability & Operations)

Allianz · Barcelona, Spain · 8d ago

Staff / Lead / PrincipalOn-siteDevOps, SRE & Infrastructure

About the Job

We are looking for a strategic Engineering Lead to own our enterprise platform products as a business — connecting technology decisions to business outcomes. You will be the single point of accountability for the platform's direction, delivery commitments, budget, and value: translating business strategy into technical roadmaps, steering investment and cost-to-serve, and advising product and business leadership as a trusted consultant. You lead through influence, financial acumen, and stakeholder alignment — with enough technical depth to challenge architecture decisions and keep engineering honest.

What you do

Own the platform strategy: define and evolve the product/platform roadmap in line with business priorities, market context, and enterprise architecture direction.
Manage the platform as a P&L: own budget planning, forecasting, and cost-to-serve; make build/buy/partner decisions and steer investment toward the highest business value.
Align stakeholders: bring Product, Security, Operations, and Business leaders to a shared technical direction and realistic delivery commitments; manage trade-offs transparently.
Advise leadership: act as trusted technology consultant to product and business executives — translating complex technical topics into business language, risks, and options.
Govern delivery and reliability: establish and track engineering KPIs (delivery velocity, change failure rate, MTTR, availability, cost-to-serve) and hold teams accountable for technical health as well as feature delivery.
Steer architecture decisions: sponsor architecture reviews, trade-off analyses, and technology selection — ensuring scalability, security, and compliance without doing the detailed design yourself.
Ensure operational and regulatory soundness: oversee SLAs/SLOs, incident management maturity, and audit/compliance readiness, especially in a regulated environment.
Develop the organization: mentor tech leads and engineering managers, raise delivery discipline, and build a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

What you bring

8+ years in technology roles, with 3+ years leading platforms, products, or engineering organizations with end-to-end accountability.
Demonstrated experience managing technology budgets and P&L — planning, forecasting, cost optimization, and investment cases — ideally for platform or product portfolios.
A consultant's toolkit: structuring ambiguous problems, building business cases, facilitating executive decisions, and communicating with impact at senior levels.
Strong understanding of modern platform architecture — cloud, microservices, APIs, DevOps/SRE — sufficient to evaluate options, challenge designs, and assess risk credibly.
A track record of aligning cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Security, Operations, Business) around technology direction and delivery commitments.
Experience in regulated industries (Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare) strongly preferred — including compliance, audit, and operational-resilience expectations.
Familiarity with Agile portfolio and delivery governance, engineering KPIs, and vendor/partner management.
BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Business/Technology, or equivalent experience; an MBA or consulting background is a plus.
Excellent English for executive communication, business writing, and stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical audiences.

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.

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