Forward Deployed Engineer_3202

Allianz Technology; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allianz Technology is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the technical core of a squad bringing AI into business processes for Allianz OEs. You will adapt existing MVS and AI Building Blocks, or build custom components and solutions for production deployment.

Collaborating with AI Engagement Managers and IT teams, you will design, implement, and scale AI services across backend, frontend, data, and ops while ensuring security and compliance in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Shipping production-grade software across a large stack (backend, frontend, data, and ops).
• Adapt to unfamiliar codebases, domains, and partner environments.
• Cloud-native stacks and DevOps (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes) experience.
• Working knowledge of Python, APIs, and vector databases; LLM/agent framework integration.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and English fluency.

Responsibilities

• Be integrated with domain experts to translate problems into production AI solutions.
• Reuse and extend MVS/AI Building Blocks to design and implement custom services.
• Ship solutions across stacks, owning development to production deployment.
• Ensure security, compliance, and reliability; set up CI/CD, containers, and IaaC as needed.
• Document, operationalize, and scale by contributing patterns back to the catalog.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

About The Job

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are the technical core of a squad that brings AI into real business processes. You, partner directly with Allianz Operating Entities (OEs) and ecosystem, building production-ready solutions ideally by readapting existing Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and AI Building Blocks or by creating custom components and solutions for the OE’s. Together with the AI Engagement Manager you form a team with local IT team or global vertical team for their know-how of core systems and customer pain-points – to move from discovery to deployment at speed.

What You Do

• Be integrated with local and global domain experts to understand problems and translate them into production AI solutions
• Reuse and extend MVS/AI Building Blocks to design and implement custom services, integrations, and agents when necessary
• Ship solutions across different stacks (backend, frontend, data/ML, ops), landscapes and setups, owning the path from development to production
• Ensure security, compliance, and reliability; set up CI/CD, containerization, and IaaC as needed.
• Document, operationalize, and scale by contributing new patterns back to the central building-block catalogue to one solution powers the next!

What You Bring

• Hands-on software engineer with a track record of shipping production code across a big stack- backend, frontend, data, and ops.
• Comfortable operating in unfamiliar codebases, domains, and partner environments; identifying issues and delivering value.
• Practical experience with cloud-native stacks and DevOps (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes), testing/observability, and secure coding in regulated settings.
• Working knowledge of the modern data/AI stack (e.g., Python, APIs, vector databases) and integrating LLM/agent frameworks; prompt-first mindset.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; pairs effectively with an AI Engagement Manager and executes with thorough documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
• Fluency in English

106002 | 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.

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