Business Analyst Chapter Lead (f/m/d)

As a Business Analyst Chapter Lead (f/m/d), you represent a key leadership role within the Business Enablement Area, responsible for shaping business analytical excellence and enabling high‑quality, value‑driven delivery across Squads. Operating within AllianzGI’s Data & Technology Delivery Model, you will act as both a disciplinary leader and a capability builder, ensuring Business Analysts consistently apply modern, agile, product‑oriented practices.

This role places strong emphasis on cultivating an agile mindset, empowering Chapter members to think iteratively, embrace continuous learning, and work collaboratively within cross‑functional Squads to deliver measurable business outcomes.

This position will be based in Frankfurt.

What You Will Do

• Establish and continuously evolve best‑practice frameworks, methodologies, and tools for business analysis and quality assurance, ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery across all Squads
• Guide Business Analysts in stakeholder engagement, requirements framing, and quality assurance practices; provide hands‑on support for complex topics and ensure customer‑centric, value‑driven analysis
• Partner with Squads to address recurring or cross‑product issues raised by consumers, ensuring root‑cause remediation and alignment across impacted Products
• Create a vibrant learning culture by organizing regular knowledge‑sharing sessions, sharing emerging practices, and promoting cross‑Squad collaboration and professional growth
• Define clear, consistent performance expectations and capability standards for all Chapter members
• Conduct fair, holistic performance reviews linked to delivery context, governance requirements, and business expectations
• Provide structured coaching, continuous feedback, and development planning
• Identify opportunities for Analysts to gain exposure to different Products, develop new skills, and pursue formal training aligned to future capability needs
• Collaborate with Product Owners and the Area Business Lead to allocate analytical capacity effectively across Products
• Recommend adjustments to resourcing based on changing priorities, workload, or skill needs

What You Bring

• Strong academic foundation with a degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, or a closely related field
• Strong familiarity with AllianzGI’s technology and application landscape
• Good understanding of business needs across Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and HR domains, with the ability to identify value drivers, support product strategy, and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow Business and Data Analysts; skilled at fostering continuous learning, capability uplift, and high performance
• Demonstrated strength in building a collaborative, knowledge‑sharing community, promoting best practices and professional growth across the Chapter
• Strong analytical and structured problem‑solving capability, with the ability to break down complex issues, identify root causes, and translate insights into actionable improvements
• Comfortable working in environments with ambiguity, evolving business needs, or complex stakeholder landscapes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to engage effectively with Product Owners, Area Leads, business stakeholders, and technical teams
• Skilled at managing stakeholder expectations, facilitating discussions, and ensuring alignment across multiple functions
• Strong understanding of and commitment to agile values and iterative delivery, enabling Analysts to work effectively within Squads and adapt quickly to change
• Experience coaching teams on agile ways of working or contributing to agile ceremonies is highly beneficial
• Experience with Microsoft CoPilot is desirable
• Fluency in English both written and spoken is required; additional languages are a plus

What We Offer

• We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
• Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
• Family support (relocation/ childcare facilities)
• Company share purchasing plan
• Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subvention Jobticket)
• Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
• Self‑guided learning & development
• Volunteering time
• … and so much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.

We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.

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 clients first and at the centre 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 clients 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.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Global Investors has an in‑house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Global Investors does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters. When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz Global Investors. Finally, please do not contact hiring managers directly.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

How to Apply

Applying is quick and easy. Simply upload your CV, complete your personal details, confirm your consent for AI support in the “Additional Information” section, and submit your application. To support our recruiters, we use Fit Score—an AI‑powered tool that highlights how closely your profile aligns with the role. This helps us review applications more efficiently and focus on what matters most: your skills and experience.

Good to know

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