Backend Developer

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About The Job
Join Our Team as a Backend Developer

Shape The Future Of Our Cloud Solutions By Designing And Building Powerful Backend Systems That Drive Our Business Forward. As a Valued Member Of Our Team, You'll

• Architect and code elegant solutions using Azure services, Oracle DW/BI, and cloud applications
• Collaborate with passionate business analysts to transform requirements into reality
• Craft robust code using SQL, PL/SQL, Azure services, Python and Databricks
• Lead the charge in optimizing our development processes and setting new standards
• Apply agile methodologies to deliver impactful results that matter

Your technical expertise will directly influence our success, while working in a collaborative environment that values your unique perspective and innovative ideas.

What You Do

• Develop and test programs using Azure Synapse, PySpark for cloud application
• Use Databricks for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale
• Develop and test programs using SQL, PL/SQL for Oracle DW/BI applications
• Work with the business analysts to fully understand the business requirements and assure that the project deliverables are fulfilling these
• Develop technical specifications for projects and design data processing pipelines
• Perform code reviews to identify basic technical and logical errors
• Actively drive standardization and optimization of software development
• Develop best practices to improve productivity and utilize programming principles, tools, and techniques to write solution codes

What You Bring

• Advanced knowledge of Azure services such as Synapse, Data Lake Gen 2, API Azure, Azure Functions, and lakehouse concepts like DeltaLake.
• Extensive experience in ETL/ELT, data integration, and migration using various technologies including REST, OData, batch, Kafka events, and Azure cloud solutions.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL, with over 5 years of experience, particularly with Oracle 11g or newer versions.
• Proficient in Python programming, including core Python and PySpark, with strong understanding of DWH concepts, architecture, and data modeling techniques.
• Experience collaborating with Business Analysts and Customers for requirements definition and transforming these into technical designs using agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git/SVN, devops tools like Jenkins and Nexus, and agile project management tools like Confluence and Jira.
• Self-driven with a strong aptitude for learning new technologies and tools, and knowledge of the Insurance business domain
• Basic knowledge of AI technologies, principles, and their practical use.

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 teach.

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.

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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.