Job Description

Role Description & Responsibilities

Are you energised by turning complex, multi-team technology programmes into predictable delivery for one of the world's largest financial services groups?

If so, this role puts you at the centre of that work. You will own the end-to-end delivery of projects across the Allianz Data Platform and the wider DAP portfolio, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure, translating complex business requirements into clear technical deliverables that engineering teams can act on.The role sits at the crossroads of business, technology, and data, which means the governance you put in place, from risk and dependency management through to status reporting and escalation, shapes how thousands of colleagues across Allianz Group turn data into decisions.To get there, you will facilitate agile ceremonies and cross-team coordination across geographically distributed teams, and work alongside Senior Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Platform Architects to keep delivery aligned with DAP's three-year architecture and delivery roadmap.What we value most is your ability to bring structure to ambiguity, engage credibly with engineers on technical trade-offs, navigate stakeholders, product owners, and vendors, and coach the project managers coming up behind you.

As part of this role you will:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale data, analytics, and AI platform projects, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear technical deliverables, ensuring alignment between stakeholder expectations and engineering outcomes.
• Work closely with new and emerging technologies to improve platform usability, performance, and scalability across the DAP ecosystem.
• Participate in the full development lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing, documentation, delivery, and ongoing maintenance, acting as the connective tissue between workstreams.
• Evaluate and make informed decisions around the adoption of new or existing technologies, tools, and project management methodologies.
• Define and maintain project governance frameworks, including risk management plans, dependency tracking, status reporting, and escalation paths.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and cross-team coordination across geographically distributed teams.
• Coach and mentor junior project managers and support the professional development of team members across the organisation.
• Collaborate with Senior Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Platform Architects to contribute to and align with the DAP's three-year architecture and delivery roadmap.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, product owners, and external vendors or partners.
• Drive continuous improvement in project delivery practices, tooling, and team ways of working.

✅ Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in technical project management, with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional technology projects, ideally within financial services, insurance, or another regulated industry.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture discussions (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) within data, analytics, AI, or platform engineering contexts.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles and the ability to engage credibly with engineering teams on technical topics.
• Experience working with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, SQL, Bash) at a level sufficient to understand technical trade-offs and review technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience in object-oriented or data-oriented programming concepts, enabling effective collaboration with development teams.
• Experience with end-to-end (E2E) Data Product Management, including data governance, quality, and lifecycle management.
• Strong command of agile project management methodologies, including SAFe, Scrum, and/or Kanban.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills in English (additional languages are a plus).

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical project management, ideally within data engineering, analytics platforms, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software environments.
• Experience managing the full software or data product development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing pipelines, and operational support.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, or equivalent.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern data stack technologies (e.g., Spark, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar).
• Experience working in a multinational or globally distributed organisation, ideally within financial services, insurance, or a regulated industry.

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 for equal opportunities for all. And 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.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.