AI Architect_3195

About the Job As an AI Architect, you define the end-to-end architecture for AI-enabled solutions across Allianz Technology, translating business objectives into technical blueprints, reusable solution frameworks, and AI reference architectures. Partnering directly with Allianz Operating Entities (OEs), the AI Engagement Manager, and local IT and vertical teams, you reuse and extend Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and AI Building Blocks - or design custom architectures where needed - to move from discovery to production-ready, enterprise-scale AI solutions at speed. What you do Define and own the end-to-end architecture of AI solutions, ensuring scalability, security, interoperability, and future readiness. Translate business objectives and OE problem statements into technical blueprints, reusable solution frameworks, AI reference architectures, and integration standards. Design architecture patterns for multi-system integration, API orchestration, data harmonization, and AI-driven workflows. Architect GenAI-enabled capabilities such as intelligent assistants, copilots, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, and automation pipelines. Reuse and extend MVS/AI Building Blocks, designing custom services, integrations, and agents when reusable components do not fit. Be integrated with local and global domain experts to understand problems and translate them into production-ready AI architectures. Govern solution lifecycle management, versioning, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles, including AI governance and responsible AI standards. Ensure security, compliance, and reliability of solutions; define CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code approaches as needed. Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, PoCs, AI pilots, and enterprise-scale implementations, ensuring measurable business value. Document, operationalize, and contribute new patterns back to the central building-block catalogue so one solution powers the next. Evaluate emerging technologies - GenAI platforms, agentic frameworks, vector databases, and orchestration tools - and recommend architectural improvements for performance, scalability, and cost optimization What you bring Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Significant IT experience with a strong track record in an Architect or Technical Architect role, ideally in regulated or large-scale environments. Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale solutions across data platforms, cloud, integration, and application modernization. Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman (preferred). Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including cloud-native services. Comfortable operating in unfamiliar codebases, domains, and partner environments; identifying issues and delivering value. Working knowledge of the modern data/AI stack (e.g., Python, APIs, vector databases) and integrating LLM/agent frameworks; prompt-first mindset. Practical experience with cloud-native stacks and DevOps (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes), testing/observability, and secure coding in regulated settings. Strong collaboration and communication skills; pairs effectively with an AI Engagement Manager and stakeholders, and executes with thorough documentation. Fluency in English. 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. 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 centers, 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 Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute. To Recruitment Agencies: Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters. When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz. 105266 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent 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. Join us . Let's care for tomorrow.