OE IT Lead for SimpliFI - Allianz - Barcelona

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About the Role

As an OE IT Lead, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering the IT landscape of a dedicated Operating Entity (OE). You will act as a strategic partner to the OE onboarding manager and Business OE lead, collaborating closely with Allianz Technology delivery teams and external vendors.

You will lead the full delivery lifecycle—from onboarding and fit-gap analysis to build, testing, cutover, go‑live, and hypercare—ensuring the OE’s needs are met while aligning with our global IT architecture and standards. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of a global transformation program, influencing how our systems and processes evolve across Allianz.

What You Will Do

Partner with the Global IT Lead and central team on program-related activities.
Own and orchestrate the OE parameterization backlog across all delivery phases.
Coordinate all IT resources supporting the delivery: central teams, OE onboarding teams, local IT, and vendors.
Ensure seamless and high-quality OE IT delivery, collaborating with the OE onboarding manager and retained OE IT teams within Allianz Technology.
Promote alignment with our common core standards, governance model, and enterprise IT architecture.

What You Bring

A solid understanding of OE feeder inventory and OE business processes.
Experience or familiarity with SAP systems.
Strong connections or the ability to effectively collaborate with Allianz Technology project and run teams, as well as external vendors.
Ability to oversee and guide an IT delivery that will later be operated in the run by Allianz Technology.
Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, enabling strong collaboration with OE leaders (CFO, Chief Accountant) and technical teams.
A proactive approach to conflict management, with the ability to mediate across business, development, and operations.
Curiosity and foundational understanding of AI technologies and their practical applications.

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.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform, and innovate the infrastructure, applications, and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks, and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

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.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies:

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies 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.

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