Technical Product Owner

Allianz Technology; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus scheme

Pension

Employee shares program

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Allianz Technology is seeking a Data Engineer to develop and maintain data pipelines for the SimpliFi Data Pool in Barcelona. The ideal candidate should have expertise in Azure cloud services, ETL/ELT patterns, and data governance.

This role offers a hybrid work model, strong career growth opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package including a bonus scheme and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in building data pipelines.
• Proficiency with Databricks and Azure Synapse.
• Deep knowledge of Azure cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain data pipelines based on engineering standards.
• Ensure data quality within pipeline scope.
• Engage in sprint planning and delivery cycles.

Skills

Data pipeline design

ETL/ELT patterns

SQL

Python

Azure

Data governance

CI/CD for data pipelines

Tools

Databricks

Azure Synapse

Apache Spark

Job description

About The Job

The SimpliFi Data Pool is a central data repository hosted on Azure, designed to unify OE financial data and enhance cost efficiency. It serves as the primary source of accounting and reporting data, ensuring compliance with mandatory reporting requirements. The Data Pool is a key component of the SimpliFi program, integrated with SAP, providing a harmonized data model with Common Core components, including a globally harmonized Chart of Accounts and standardized accounting and reporting processes.

What You Do

• Implement data pipelines in line with established engineering standards — pipeline design patterns, naming conventions, and modelling approaches (e.g. Data Vault). Apply architecture decisions made at Lead level and translate them into working, maintainable solutions.
• Build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and loading. In SimpliFi terms, this means developing and owning flows across Raw Data Vault, Business Data Vault, UJT, and CORE layers — working hands‑on with tools such as Databricks, Azure Synapse and IDMC.
• Responsible for data quality within their pipeline scope — implementing checks, identifying issues early, and resolving them before they propagate downstream. Escalate systemic or cross‑domain issues to the Lead.
• Review code from junior and mid‑level engineers, share best practices and contribute to raising team capability. Act as a day‑to‑day technical reference for less experienced colleagues.
• Work alongside Data Modellers, MDM/RDM specialists, and IT component leads. Translate technical constraints and findings into clear inputs for planning and design discussions.
• Ensure pipelines are built in line with data governance requirements — lineage, classification, and access controls. Support gate processes (e.g. DAB/CCP) by providing accurate technical evidence and documentation.
• Actively participate in sprint planning and delivery cycles — providing effort estimates, flagging technical dependencies, and keeping work moving within their delivery lane.

What You Bring

• Hands‑on expertise building and operating large‑scale pipelines — batch and streaming. Proficiency in tools like Apache Spark, Databricks and cloud‑native equivalents. Experience with ETL/ELT patterns at enterprise scale.
• Practical experience with modern lakehouse/warehouse platforms — Databricks, Azure Synapse, or equivalents. Understanding of partitioning, clustering, query optimisation.
• Deep working knowledge of at least one major cloud Azure — compute, storage, networking, managed services. In enterprise contexts like SimpliFi, Azure is typically dominant (ADLS, ADF, Azure Databricks).
• Solid grasp of modelling paradigms — Medallion, dimensional (Kimball) and Data Vault 2.0. Ability to review and contribute to models, not just implement them. Know how to implement metadata capture, data lineage (e.g. via IDMC or Purview) and access controls. Experience navigating governance frameworks and gate processes.
• Strong SQL (complex transformations, performance tuning), Python (pipeline logic, data quality scripts) and familiarity with PySpark for distributed workloads. Experience implementing DQ rules, profiling and monitoring — ideally with tools like DQX, Great Expectations.
• Understanding of master and reference data flows — how golden records are created, maintained and consumed. Experience with platforms like SAP MDG or Informatica MDM is a strong plus.
• CI/CD for data pipelines (GitHub Actions), version control discipline and infrastructure‑as‑code basics (Terraform). Able to read and contribute to architecture documents and understand layers, zones and data flow patterns across a platform. Can engage meaningfully with architects without needing hand‑holding.
• Familiarity with Machine learning is a strong advantage.

What We Offer

• We offer a hybrid work model recognising the value of striking a balance between in‑person collaboration and remote working, including up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance; 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 is unique.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.