We are looking for an AI Investment Engineer to help accelerate the use of AI across our Investments platform. The “Central AI Node” is a senior AI delivery leadership role within Investments at Allianz Global Investors. The role helps accelerate AI adoption across the investment platform by working with AI Nodes in different asset classes, investment teams, and data and technology teams. While asset-class AI Nodes focus on the priorities of their own investment areas, the Central AI Node focuses on opportunities that can be shared, scaled, and reused across multiple teams.
Your focus will be on identifying common challenges across investment teams and developing reusable solutions. Therefore the role combines investment domain expertise with hands-on AI engineering capabilities and contributes directly to solution architecture, rapid prototyping, reusable AI components, code reviews, and the industrialization of scalable AI solutions.
What you will do
Build AI Solutions
- Implement AI solutions and reusable components in collaboration with asset-class AI Nodes.
- Develop prototypes, proofs of concept, reusable AI components, shared frameworks, and the common AI code base.
- Applies engineering best practices through code reviews, testing, documentation, SDLC discipline, and CI/CD practices
Coordinate across asset classes and establish reusable AI Capabilities
- Identifies opportunities that exist across multiple investment teams and develops shared patterns, common foundations, and reusable solutions across asset classes.
- Establish standards and engineering patterns that can be leveraged across asset classes.
- Help avoid duplicate development efforts by creating solutions that can be reused and scaled.
Connect Investment and Technology
- Work closely with Investments leadership, investment professionals, AI Nodes, Product Owners, and technology teams on cross-asset AI topics.
- Help feed AI priorities into area planning, OKRs, roadmaps, and relevant sprint discussions.
- Coordinate dependencies across business and technology functions.
- Align architecture and implementation decisions with business needs and technical standards.
Grow the AI Node Community
- Share knowledge and best practices across AI Nodes.
- Support and coach more junior AI Node colleagues.
- Contribute to the evolution of AllianzGI's AI delivery capability.
What you bring
- Strong understanding of asset management or related financial services fields within an investment context.
- Deep expertise in AI technologies, tools, emerging developments, and implementation approaches.
- Experience in modern enterprise AI software delivery, including code contribution, scalable implementation, code reviews, testing,
- Strong understanding of SDLC practices, software engineering standards, reusable component design, and production-readiness requirements.
- Deep understanding of agile delivery models incl. product ownership, and collaboration between business and technology teams.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional or cross-team initiatives in complex environments.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
- Ability to translate strategic priorities into coordinated delivery activities, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
- Experience guiding, coaching, or functionally leading junior colleagues in complex delivery environments.
Core Competencies
- Change leadership and an adoption mindset to help embed AI capabilities into day-to-day investment processes.
- People and capability leadership, with the ability to coach junior Central AI Nodes and build a consistent, high-quality central AI delivery capability.
- Technical leadership with engineering teams, including a strong understanding of AI implementation, and production-readiness requirements.
- Investment-domain translation, with the ability to connect asset-class needs, CIO priorities, and technology delivery capabilities.
- Cross-functional influencing without direct authority across investment teams, AI Nodes, Product Owners, squads, DT, and the AI CoE.
- Reuse-oriented thinking, with a strong focus on common standards, shared foundations, and the avoidance of duplicated AI development.
What we offer
- We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
- Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
- Family support (relocation/ childcare facilities)
- Company share purchasing plan
- Mental health and wellbeing programs
- Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subvention Jobticket)
- Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
- Self-guided learning development
- … and so much more!
About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.
We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.
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 clients 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 clients 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 background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environment. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position. If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request
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To Recruitment Agencies:
Allianz Global Investors has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Global Investors does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency 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 Global Investors.
Finally, please do not contact hiring managers directly.
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How to Apply: Applying is quick and easy. Simply upload your CV, complete your personal details, confirm your consent for AI support in the “Additional Information” section, and submit your application.
To support our recruiters, we use Fit Score—an AI‑powered tool that highlights how closely your profile aligns with the role. This helps us review applications more efficiently and focus on what matters most: your skills and experience.
Good to know: The Fit Score is a support tool only. At Allianz, technology never replaces human judgment. Every application is carefully reviewed by our recruiting teams, ensuring a fair, thoughtful, and personal hiring process.
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