Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team at Allianz. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a lead role in designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure the efficient collection, storage and retrieval of data for analysis and reporting purposes, enabling better insight and informed decision making.

Pay: Circa £74,000. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

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• Leading a Data Engineering Squad designing, developing, testing, implementing and documenting scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines and workflows to efficiently ingest and transform data from different sources.
  
• Working collaboratively with testers to ensure test plans are in place and to agree test packs of data to support system and UAT testing, automating wherever possible.
  
• Ensuring design is compliant with the Allianz Data Strategy and working with peers to maintain and enhance Allianz standards.
  
• Implementing data security measures and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.
  
• Peer reviewing work of colleagues and being accountable for quality for your squad.
  
• Being a subject‑matter expert of infrastructure and configuration for one or more data technologies, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and data quality issues to ensure the accuracy and reliability of our data.
  
• Collaborating with stakeholders and analysts to understand their data requirements and provide them with clean, reliable and accessible data.
  
• Staying up‑to‑date with industry trends and best practices in data engineering to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
  

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• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
  
• Proven work experience as a Senior Data Engineer or in a similar role.
  
• Strong programming experience in Python including PySpark usage and GitHub for version control.
  
• Experience with data modelling and data warehousing, ideally using the Data Vault pattern.
  
• Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), Parquet/Delta files and big data technologies (e.g. Synapse, Spark, Kafka).
  
• Significant hands‑on experience delivering enterprise‑grade solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform using Databricks.
  
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to communicate findings to technical and non‑technical audiences.
  
• Knowledge of data visualisation tools and techniques.
  
• Strong problem‑solving skills and good attention to detail.
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
  
• Ideally some knowledge of the UK Insurance Market.
  

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• Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
  
• Hybrid working.
  
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
  
• Contributory pension scheme.
  
• Development days.
  
• Discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products, including car, home and pet.
  
• Retail discounts.
  
• Volunteering days.
  

We understand the need for 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, we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter, supporting hybrid work patterns that balance the needs of our customers, your personal circumstances and our business requirements.

We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer and hold numerous accreditations such as EDGE certified, Women in Finance Charter membership, Disability Confident, Stonewall Diversity Champion, National Diversity Charter signatories and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neuro‑divergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme. Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies or spoken applications.

We support the government scheme “Access to Work”. Please feel free to ask us about the scheme.

Email:
Contact: Scott Burns

12 November 2025. We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.