Role Description
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, 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:
* 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.
* 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.
* Set direction for colleagues in IT and Architecture to ensure design and implementation of data platform capabilities enables operational efficiency for data engineering activity.
* Work across 3–4 agile squads with engineers and scrum masters to ensure delivery uses Data Engineering technical best practice, ensuring data product quality, and provide 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, 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 and coaching 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
* 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 support flexible working arrangements and strive to help employees thrive, balancing customer needs with personal circumstances and business requirements.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations.
Accessibility
We embrace neurodiversity, welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, and offer tailored adjustments to ensure success. We encourage employees to advocate for their needs, including assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Application Support
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme.
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