Lead Enterprise Architect(m/f/d)

94264 | IT & Tech Engineering | Management | Allianz Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 8,800 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow.

Allianz Services is a company which belongs to the legal entity, Allianz Technology SE.

Role Overview

The Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in defining and implementing the technology strategy and architecture for Allianz Services. This position requires a strategic thinker with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, technology and a strong understanding of the insurance industry. The Enterprise Architect will directly report to our Global CIO and collaborate with various stakeholders across locations to ensure alignment between business objectives and technology solutions, driving outcomes. In this role you will be working within the Allianz Services Retained IT organization, contributing to the IT strategy of Allianz Services embarking on a new journey as an independent OE. The position offers an excellent platform to get broad exposure to different lines of business, and to work with an OE with one of the highest AES score in the group.

What You Do

• Working with Business and IT, develop a strategic vision for IT landscape for Allianz Services, which enables and accelerates business transformation and innovation.
• Design and implement enterprise architecture framework, principles and strategies that align with Allianz Services’s business goals.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, not limited to automation and AI for their applicability and potential impact on business operations.
• Run the IT Architecture Board for Az Services ensuring adherence to defined architecture models, standards, and guidelines.
• Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with business strategies.
• Represent Allianz Services in Group Architecture bodies.
• Work closely with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into architectural solutions.
• Drive the development and execution of the IT landscape roadmap, with a strategic horizon of 2 and 5 years.

What You Bring

• Deep knowledge and experience as an Enterprise Architect in a global organization, preferably within the insurance or financial services industry.
• Outcome based thinking, Lead by example, ability to lead cross functional teams to achieve outcomes.
• Strong track record of successfully delivering large-scale IT projects.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Broad Technical Knowledge in Cloud, Data Centre, workplace and network technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Familiarity with insurance-specific technologies and platforms.
• Experience in EA documentation standards and tools (e.g. ADOIT).
• Understanding of infrastructure, including cloud services and virtualization technologies.
• Highly motivated, dynamic, and self-driven individual.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and handling ad-hoc requests.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask effectively.
• Solid interpersonal skills, capable of building relationships with peers and other departments, and the ability to motivate and influence key stakeholders to drive change.
• Fluent in English; additional language skills are a plus.
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.

What We Offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

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 customers first and at the center 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 customers 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.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.