Group Technical Architect (Solution Architect)_3313

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our PCP team and take end-to-end ownership of the solution architecture across our platform landscape, driving technical direction, quality, and consistency at Allianz Technology.

Own the target architecture and roadmap for the HR Platform Applications landscape - defining architecture principles, patterns, and guardrails across APIs, integrations, data, and security, and driving their adoption across teams. Translate business and functional requirements into modular, scalable, and secure end-to-end technical solutions, ensuring non-functional requirements - availability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency - are engineered in from the start. Guide solution design for new and evolving capabilities, running design reviews and validating architectural decisions across the portfolio. Orchestrate cross-application dependencies and shared components, reducing technical debt through incremental modernization. Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as solution blueprints, ADOIT repository content that describe the current and target state of the landscape. Align with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Platform teams on standards, and drive architecture governance, IT risk assessments, and compliance reviews across the solution portfolio. Present architecture strategies, target states, and design decisions to audiences ranging from delivery teams to senior management and Enterprise Architecture Boards, acting as a key voice of architecture for the domain. Lead and develop a group of [number] solution architects - setting priorities, growing their skills, and ensuring consistent architectural quality across the landscape. Partner closely with functional consultants, developers, and infrastructure specialists, and mentor development teams, to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and delivered to a high technical standard.

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture and roadmap for the HR Platform Applications landscape - defining architecture principles, patterns, and guardrails across APIs, integrations, data, and security, and driving their adoption across teams.
• Translate business and functional requirements into modular, scalable, and secure end-to-end technical solutions, ensuring non-functional requirements - availability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency - are engineered in from the start.
• Guide solution design for new and evolving capabilities, running design reviews and validating architectural decisions across the portfolio.
• Orchestrate cross-application dependencies and shared components, reducing technical debt through incremental modernization.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as solution blueprints, ADOIT repository content that describe the current and target state of the landscape.
• Align with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Platform teams on standards, and drive architecture governance, IT risk assessments, and compliance reviews across the solution portfolio.
• Present architecture strategies, target states, and design decisions to audiences ranging from delivery teams to senior management and Enterprise Architecture Boards, acting as a key voice of architecture for the domain.
• Lead and develop a group of [number] solution architects - setting priorities, growing their skills, and ensuring consistent architectural quality across the landscape.
• Partner closely with functional consultants, developers, and infrastructure specialists, and mentor development teams, to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and delivered to a high technical standard.

Experience and Qualifications

• Around 14+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles, including experience leading or coordinating a team of architects, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, large-scale IT solutions.
• Experience working within an established enterprise architecture setup/function, including its governance processes, review boards, and modeling standards.
• Solid understanding of integration methodologies, API-first design, and modern application architecture patterns such as microservices, cloud-native, and event-driven.
• Experience working within a platform/product environment, ideally with HR Platform Applications or HR applications or a comparable insurance or financial services IT landscape.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-system architectural issues.
• Confident presenter: able to prepare and deliver architecture presentations and design walkthroughs, exchanging ideas concisely and logically while driving budget-conscious, cost-effective design decisions.
• Proven stakeholder leadership and influencing skills across business, engineering, security, and operations audiences at various levels; excellent English communication.
• Ability to produce pragmatic architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, standards, roadmaps and drive their adoption.
• Proven experience across the full project lifecycle, from requirements gathering to solution design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is considered an advantage.