HDI Group is a large European insurer (24,000 employees, €45.5B premium income) in the midst of significant technical transformation. The stack reveals a hybrid environment—Oracle and SQL Server are being replaced while PostgreSQL and AWS CDK adoption accelerates alongside a SAP S/4HANA migration to cloud. Active hiring across engineering (211 roles) and data (43) teams, combined with projects centered on CI/CD, cloud industrialization, and transactional risk expansion, signals a shift from legacy monolith toward distributed, API-driven architecture. Pain points around AI integration, claims automation, and DORA compliance suggest the company is prioritizing developer velocity and regulatory modernization in parallel.
Notable leadership hires: Software Development Lead, Insurance Mathematics Lead, Department Head, Head of Operations, Head of UX
HDI Group operates as one of Europe's largest insurance groups, offering industrial liability, property, and commercial coverage across domestic and international markets. The organization is structured around decentralized business units—each responsible for underwriting, claims, and product development in their segment—operating under the parent Talanx Group. Current technical priorities center on cloud migration (AWS, Azure, SAP Rise), modernizing claims and sales processes through automation, and building risk analytics capabilities. The company maintains a substantial engineering and operations workforce, with active development of new transactional risk insurance products and expansion into additional jurisdictions.
Core: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Java/Spring Boot, Azure, AWS. Adopting: AWS CDK, SAP S/4HANA, PostgreSQL. Modern ops: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps. Analytics: Power BI, dbt.
Germany (headquarters: Hannover) and United States. Most hiring activity concentrated in Germany given domestic operational base.
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