Group Technical Architect (AI Engagement Manager)_3095

Allianz Commercial; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Bonus scheme

Pension

Employee shares program

Employee discounts

Lifelong learning

Job summary

Allianz Technology's AI Factory is seeking an Engagement Manager to translate OE pain points into funded AI projects, shaping demand and steering engagements from idea to handover. The role sits within the AI Use Case Delivery team and collaborates with Forward Deployed Engineers and global verticals.

You will lead multiple engagements, manage senior stakeholders up to CTO level, and own the OE relationship post go-live in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English; strong stakeholder and executive communication skills.
• Experience translating business problems into delivered software, preferably in regulated environments.
• Ability to shape and manage roadmaps and delivery programs across large organizations.
• Experience leading delivery programs with cross-functional teams and multiple engagements.
• Knowledge of AI technologies and practical agentic concepts is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Form and lead engagements between Allianz OE and AI Factory teams, scoping use cases and shaping demand.
• Shape and execute OE demand, match reusable building blocks to pain points, secure funded engagements.
• Steer multiple engagements across full lifecycle, transfer learnings between engagements.
• Cut scope when necessary and validate assumptions quickly to keep projects aligned.
• Own handover to run teams and maintain OE relationships beyond go-live.

Skills

English fluency

Stakeholder management

Roadmap shaping

Delivery leadership

Business problem translation

AI knowledge basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/management/technology

Job description

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 Use Case Delivery team is the AI Factory's delivery engine for agentic and AI-native solutions across Allianz Operating Entities. It accelerates high-return AI initiatives through dedicated squads, a defined lifecycle from Idea to Handover, and a growing library of reusable AI building blocks that turn one OE's solution into the next OE's head start.

The AI Engagement Manager is the AI delivery interface between the AI Factory and the Operating Entities (OEs). The role turns OE and group pain points into deliverable, funded AI projects and steers several engagements in parallel. Where the Forward Deployed Engineer is the technical core of the squad, the Engagement Manager shapes the engagement and steers it to production: scoping the use case, shaping and executing demand, steering delivery, 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 half-pizza squad with the Forward Deployed Engineers per OE engagement, together with the local IT or global vertical people who know the core systems.
• Shape and execute OE demand: make AI Factory capability visible early, match reusable building blocks (MVS) against the OE's actual pain points, and turn this into a funded 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-run handover to the global service or local IT team, with the run team involved during delivery so the handover is real.
• Own the OE relationship after go-live 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.
• Fluent in English
• Basic to solid knowledge of AI technologies, agentic principles, and their practical use.

What We Offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working, including 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 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 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. Our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.