Assoc. Director - Country AI Engineer

Job description

Lead end-to-end delivery of AI solutions for an insurance business, from ideation and experimentation to production deployment on Azure. You will set technical directions, ensure production quality, and provide mentorship.

Job Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of AI solutions from ideation to production rollout and continuous improvement. Build AI applications across Generative AI, predictive modeling, and analytics depending on business priority. Work with business teams (claims, underwriting, sales, operations) to translate problems into AI solutions. Deploy AI services and pipelines on Azure with focus on reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Set engineering standards for AI development, evaluation, monitoring, and documentation and provide technical guidance and mentorship.

Qualifications

5-10+ years in software/AI/ML engineering with multiple production deliveries. Strong Python and software engineering skills APIs/services, testing, maintainability). Strong understanding of ML fundamentals and practical AI evaluation (for both GenAI and classical ML). Experience delivering solutions on Azure or similar clouds. Experience with Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Search patterns. Azure MLOps/LLMOps practices (monitoring, CI/CD, model lifecycle management).

Experience in insurance, financial services, or regulated environments. Any AI-future skills e.g., ChatGPT, or CoPilot 365, will be an advantage. 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.

We are united by a shared commitment

to put our customers first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions. Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for 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. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.