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Data Engineering Manager

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 practise. 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:

• You will be working across 3 - 4 agile squads, you will work with engineers and scrum masters to ensure delivery uses Data Engineering technical best practise, 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. 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

We support the government scheme "Access to Work" please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

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 number one 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

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this 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. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Irvine

Closing date: 26/03/2026

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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93681 | Operations | Professional | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent

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