Quantitative Data Engineer

What You Will Do as a Quantitative Data Engineer

As a Quantitative Data Engineer at Allianz Global Investors, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the Systematic Equity Team’s data strategy. Your responsibilities will include proactively designing, implementing, and continuously improving data processing workflows for large and complex equity market, fundamental, and alternative data sources within a quantitative equity investment context. You will implement data models and schemas optimized for equity research and portfolio management, ensuring high data quality through validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and automated checks, as data accuracy directly impacts portfolio positioning.

You will understand investment objectives and partner with portfolio managers, quantitative equity researchers, and system architects to translate these into effective technical solutions. Your work will involve designing and operating workflows that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, including compliance with internal data governance standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements. You will build robust, scalable, production-ready applications, owning the full lifecycle from design through deployment and ongoing operation in a production-grade investment environment. Additionally, you will support and enable the production deployment of research data pipelines into live equity trading or portfolio management systems, and maintain metadata, data lineage, and technical documentation to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and auditability.

What You Bring

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline
• 4+ years of professional, hands-on experience in data engineering, quantitative systems development, or a closely related field, ideally within systematic equity investing or asset management
• Proficiency in Python, R, SparkSQL, (T-)SQL
• Professional experience with cloud solutions, data warehousing and data lakes, in particular Databricks and Azure Data Lake
• Strong economic intuition combined with a genuine passion for quantitative investing
• Familiarity with financial instruments and market data vendors
• Experience with time series and panel data
• Knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD practices
• Initiative-driven, hands-on, and ownership-oriented, with a strong focus on continuous improvement of data quality, performance, and code standards; organized, analytical, and detail-oriented
• Ability to work within a dynamic international team and independently
• Proficiency in English both written and spoken, proficiency in German is a plus
• A passion for good quality code
• Service attitude and process orientation

What We Offer

We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities, such as a hybrid model and flexible working hours. We also help secure your future with access to company pension/savings plans and offer family support, including relocation and childcare facilities. Employees can participate in a company share purchasing plan and access mental health and wellbeing programs. Mobility solutions like Jobrad bike leasing and subvention Jobticket are available. You’ll find career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group, along with self-guided learning & development and much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our goal is to actively shape the future of investing for all our clients, wherever their location and whatever their objectives. 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 equal opportunities for all. 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. 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 to recruiting@allianzgi.com. Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

Key skills/competency

• Python
• R
• SparkSQL
• T-SQL
• Databricks
• Azure Data Lake
• Data Engineering
• Quantitative Investing
• Financial Instruments
• Data Quality