Allianz - Project Manager

Description:

Highly skilled and results-driven IT Project Manager to lead the integration of insurance IT systems across multiple platforms and business units.

This role is pivotal in aligning technology solutions with business objectives, ensuring seamless data flow, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance within the insurance domain.

You will be responsible for planning, executing, and overseeing IT projects to ensure they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.

You will coordinate with cross-functional teams, manage resources, and communicate project progress and challenges to stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end project delivery for insurance systems integration, from initiation through deployment and post-implementation support.

- Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams including developers, business analysts, QA testers, and external vendors.

- Ensure integration of core insurance systems such as policy administration, claims processing, underwriting, CRM, and financial platforms.

- Monitor project risks and issues, implementing mitigation strategies and escalation protocols.

- Facilitate stakeholder communication through regular status updates, steering committee

meetings, and executive reporting.

- Ensure compliance with industry regulations (e.g., APRA, GDPR, HIPAA) and internal governance standards.

- Drive change management and user adoption strategies across impacted business units.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.

- 10-15+ years of experience in IT project management, preferably within the insurance or financial services sector.

- Proven experience with systems integration projects involving legacy systems, cloud platforms, APIs, and middleware.

- Strong understanding of insurance operations and workflows.

- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Confluence).

- PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certification preferred.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Your Benefits:

- 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

About Allianz Technology:

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group.

With more than 11,000 employees located in 20 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.

We oversee the full digitalization spectrum from one of the industrys largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

D&I statement:

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment.

We are interested in your strengths and experience.

We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.