Platform Engineer - Financial Market Data Platform

Allianz SE
München, Germany
22 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

München, Germany

Tech stack

Microsoft Excel
Business Logic
Azure
Communications Protocols
Software Debugging
Linux
Perl
Failover
HTTP Secure
Intrusion Detection Systems
Python
Oracle
Shell Script
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SQL Databases
XML
Data Processing
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Load Balancing
Cloud Platform System
Reliability of Systems
Information Technology
Data Delivery
REST

Job description

As a Platform Engineer, your responsibility is to ensure the reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the IDS Market Data Platform - a complex, Perl-based system used for market data acquisition, processing, and delivery. In this role, you combine technical expertise, market-data domain knowledge, and operational excellence.You will improve system reliability, manage incidents, integrate with vendors, and work closely with stakeholders. You'll also help migrate business logic to a modern cloud platform, building your cloud skills and making a significant impact., * Oversee the daily operations of the IDS Financial Market Data platform, including job control, batch execution, system load balancing, and failover handling.

  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve system incidents, ensuring timely root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
  • Execute planned maintenance activities, deployments, and upgrades to secure ongoing system health and stability.
  • Maintain and optimize vendor and client data delivery workflows, including spooler processes, parsing logic, and file transformation pipelines.
  • Support the transition from the current environment to the new cloud based system, including preparation, knowledge transfer, testing activities, and alignment of operational processes to future state architecture.

Requirements

Do you have experience in XML?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

  • Strong Perl programming expertise, including debugging and maintaining and developing business logic.
  • Solid Linux and Shell scripting skills for operations, automation, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with SQL and Oracle databases, especially in data-processing environments.
  • Understanding of financial market data, including equities, indices, FX, and corporate actions is desirable.
  • Hands-on incident management experience, with strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis abilities.
  • Proficiency with file-based workflows (XML, CSV, Excel) and communication protocols like SFTP, FTP(S), HTTP(S), REST, and SOAP is desirable.
  • Operational experience in mission-critical systems, including batch jobs, load balancing, failover, and maintenance tasks.
  • Python and Azure Cloud experience are beneficial.

Benefits & conditions

  • Benefit from flexible working hours, a home office arrangement and 30 vacation days per year
  • With us, you can expect an intercultural environment with flat hierarchies, a familiar working atmosphere as well as independent work in dedicated teams
  • Become part of a company with start-up spirit that combines the advantages of the Allianz Group
  • Take advantage of our wide range of training and development opportunities and shape your individual career path
  • Benefit, among other things, from annual bonus payments, additional benefits, health initiatives, employee restaurant and a company pension plan

About the company

IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (IDS) unlocks the value of data for the global investment industry: We validate, refine, and link data from a wide variety of sources and make it available for mission-critical processes along all investment strategies and products quickly, worldwide, and at any time. Fund management companies, insurance companies, banks and pension funds can use IDS to access a flexibly scalable data platform as well as all necessary analyses and reports in the desired format. As a 100% subsidiary of Allianz SE, IDS has stood for stability, reliability and certified security in the handling of its customers' data since 2001.

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