87915 | Project Management | Professional | Non-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 8,000 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 Flying Expert BA is a highly experienced analyst deployed in the most strategic phases of business transformation programs. This role focuses on requirements elicitation, process modeling, stakeholder alignment, and early validation to ensure strong business foundations. The Flying Expert BA enables delivery readiness for up to six product teams.
What you do:
- Contribute to Sprint 0 requirements and bundles definition
- Lead process mapping and impact assessments
- Facilitate workshops with global/local stakeholders to gather requirements and insights, ensuring comprehensive understanding and alignment
- Translate business needs into clear, validated requirements
- Support backlog shaping alongside the Product Owner
- Drive early testing readiness (e.g. Functional Testing scenarios, data definitions)
- Develop comprehensive documentation, including business requirements, user stories, and process flows
- Utilize Jira to track project progress, manage tasks, and ensure timely delivery of milestones
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth transition and implementation for new OE
What you bring:
- 5+ years in BA roles within transformation or system delivery programs
- Profound experience with liaising multiple stakeholder groups, incl. Product Managers,
- Product owners, Architects and agile teams – also towards demanding OEs.
- Strong experience in Sales Insurance sector and preferably modern state-of-the-art CRM systems
- Proven experience in Sprint 0 / early-stage delivery setup
- Skilled in process modeling, stakeholder mgmt, and discovery facilitation
- Able to align global goals with local realities
- Proficiency in English at a professional/business level - verbal and written
- Strong communication skills to effectively engage with development teams, business, and management, demonstrating the ability to handle a variety of activities independently
- Able to upskill and support other team Business Analysts in order to strengthen team capabilities and improve overall performance
- Willingness to travel internationally as required to meet product and stakeholder needs
- Familiarity with software development processes and lifecycle, including Agile and Waterfall methodologies and DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Proficiency in Jira and Confluence.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the big picture and align business analysis with organizational goals
- Initiative: Proactive in identifying opportunities and taking the lead in driving solutions
- Adaptability: Ability to adapt to change and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, able to adjust to changing priorities and environments
- Preferred: experience in BMP Sales and its capabilities
- 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. 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 diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We 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 ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.