IT Product Owner

About The Role
Join our dynamic team as an IT Product Owner within the Allianz Retail Global Services department Core Tribe. This position is critical to ensuring smooth, timely, and high-quality software development delivery across our global retail platform. As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for maximizing the customer's value of the product resulting from the work of the team, aligning closely with stakeholders across multiple hierarchical levels to define and prioritize the product backlog.

What You Do

• Define, prioritize, and manage the product backlog to maximize value delivery for the Core Tribe's retail solutions, ensuring alignment with the product vision and goals.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, development teams, and other tribes to ensure a clear understanding of product vision and requirements.
• Translate business needs into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications, ensuring alignment with global Retail Platform strategy and architectural guidelines.
• Lead sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions, ensuring the team is prepared with clear, actionable items.
• Monitor product delivery performance and proactively resolve impediments affecting the development cycle.
• Validate and accept deliverables, ensuring they meet quality standards and business expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across processes, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Manage cross-tribe dependencies and coordinate with global teams to ensure cohesive end-to-end delivery.
• Support change management activities, including training materials, user communication, and rollout planning.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; Master's is a plus.
• Proven experience (3–5+ years) as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role within software development environments.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe), with certification preferred (CSPO, PSPO, SAFe PO/PM).
• Experience working in complex international environments, preferably within financial services or insurance.
• Solid understanding of backend and frontend components, APIs, data flows, and system integrations.
• Ability to convert business needs into clear, structured requirements and user stories.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholders across multiple countries and domains.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and a proactive mindset toward delivery and quality.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Fluency in English; additional languages (such as Spanish or German) are an 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, delivering IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries worldwide, Allianz Technology is tasked with running, optimizing, transforming, and innovating 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 centers, 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.

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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.

89689 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent