Data Engineering Manager
As a Data Engineering Manager in Allianz, you will work across a number of data engineering squads, ensuring teams are enabled to deliver data to our internal customers at the right quality and pace, and in line with best‑practice. You will work with a range of experts in Architecture and IT to help resolve risks and issues affecting data engineering delivery. This will be a hybrid role, with office expectation once a week in our Guildford office.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £85,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
* This role includes people management for 3‑5 data engineers. In 2026 you will lead and support three strategies:
1. Cross‑skill and enable data delivery squads working in legacy platforms such as SAS, IBM and Oracle to MS Azure, to enable eventual migration of use‑cases and data to cloud.
2. Lead the design, and roll‑out of service excellence blue‑prints to drive consistency of data engineering best practice across squads, ensure pipeline resilience and cost‑effectiveness.
3. Set direction for colleagues in IT and Architecture to ensure design and implementation of data platform capabilities enables operational efficiency for data engineering activity.
* You will be working across 3‑4 agile squads, working with engineers and scrum masters to ensure delivery uses Data Engineering technical best practice, ensuring data product quality, and providing technical leadership as needed.
* Work with stakeholders to help resolve any issues that impact a DE squad from working effectively and efficiently.
* Support evaluation and estimation of new demand and requirements, facilitating workshops between data and engineering SMEs.
* Contribute to leadership discussions and decision‑making including team formation, budgeting, and approach to project delivery.
* Manage and coach several data engineers. Enable platform users.
* Co‑ordinate and agree schedule and specification for IT‑owned changes to infrastructure and apps, with impact analysis in delivery squads, including actions relating to vulnerabilities.
Essential Skills
* A background in hands‑on data engineering. You will need to coach and support engineers directly. Strong knowledge of core data concepts and technologies is essential, ideally with MS Azure Synapse or Databricks.
* Experience delivering data or solutions to a range of customers with a strong value‑orientation.
* Experience of full CI/CD cycle, and FinOps set‑up and process optimisation.
* Experience delivering data projects and/or products, using an Agile methodology.
* Working in an Agile delivery environment with multiple squads delivering to a common goal. Use of Jira is essential to understand squad delivery.
* Insurance or Financial services data demand and usage experience would be useful.
* Stakeholder management and delivery reporting in a large/complex organisation.
* Line management and coaching experience with technical SMEs.
Desirable Skills
* Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.
* Insurance or Financial services data demand and usage experience would be useful.
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from—so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s leading insurance brand, including:
* Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
* Hybrid working.
* Annual performance‑related bonus.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* Development days.
* A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
* Retail discounts.
* Volunteering days.
Our Ways of Working
We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive—your work‑life balance is important to us.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We are certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter, Disability Confident, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
Accessible Application for All
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neuro‑divergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success. As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, provided they meet the essential skills for the role.
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