AI Platform Engagement Manager

About the Job

The AI Factory is a central delivery unit at Allianz Technology that builds and deploys AI-powered solutions across the Allianz Group. It runs four pillars, Personal Productivity, AI-Native Ways of Working, Application Rebuild & Modernization, and AI Use Case Delivery, on top of a shared AI platform ecosystem that provides the runtime, governance, observability, and reusable building blocks every solution runs on.

The AI engagement team provides inside the AI ecosystem landscape the platform-related advisory for agentic and AI-native solutions across Allianz Operating Entities. While platform teams provide all AI components and building blocks, the AI platform engagement works close with the OE and the use case delivery teams in order to steer and consult for the onboarding to the AI platform.

The AI Engagement Manager is the AI platform interface between the AI Factory Ecosystem team and the Operating Entities (OEs). Where the Forward Deployed Engineer is the technical core of the squad, the Platform Engagement Manager shapes the onboarding from functional, architectural and systemic perspective and steers it until production: scoping the use platform, shaping and executing with the platform teams, steering provisioning, and owning the OE relationship beyond go-live. It works on the Allianz Technology side while staying close to the OE, and involves the Head of IT or the respective global vertical from day one.

What you do

• Form a squad with the platform teams and the use case delivery teams per OE engagement, together with the local IT or global vertical people.
• Shape and execute OE demand in terms of platform decisions: make AI Factory platform capability visible early, match reusable building blocks (MVS) against the OE's actual pain points, and turn this into a funded platform engagement before the OE reaches outside.
• Steer multiple engagements in parallel across the full lifecycle, transferring patterns, framings, and lessons between them so the next engagement starts smarter than the last.
• Cut scope where it does not earn its place, validate assumptions fast, and correct course as the work unfolds.
• Own the build-to-deploy handover to the global service or local IT team, with the platform team aside during delivery so the handover is real.
• Own the OE relationship after go-live for platform related aspects and prepare structured communications and decision papers for senior stakeholders up to CTO and Board level.

What you bring

• A degree in business, management, technology, or a related field, with experience steering delivery or programmes in a larger organization; knowledge of Allianz Group and Allianz Technology is a plus.
• Senior enough for OE leadership and Head of IT conversations, technical enough to follow the build and cut scope honestly.
• Strong stakeholder, business-framing, and roadmap-shaping skills, with the ability to prepare clear decision materials for executive audiences.
• Experience translating business problems into delivered software, ideally in insurance or another regulated environment.
• An entrepreneurial mindset: comfortable taking ownership and driving topics forward in a build-up environment without waiting for perfect structure.
• Background in IT architecture, IT operations, IT deployments and AI related platform components
• Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is a strong advantage.

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 Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, 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 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.