Applications Integration Lead

Allianz Global Investors; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career opportunities within Allianz

Learning and development opportunities

Mental health and wellbeing programs

Company share purchasing plan

Job summary

Allianz Global Investors is hiring an Applications Integration Lead in Singapore to ensure Day 1 readiness and to plan post-close migrations across Distribution, Investment, Operations, and Enablement. You will map the application landscape, define treatment for each app, and provide clear risk reporting to governance.

The role leads the workstream for a multi-country separation and migration program, coordinating with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Data, and IT teams to deliver a controlled

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant technology delivery experience, including leadership of application or technology products.
• Strong understanding of asset management business processes and applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across functions and regions.
• Sound understanding of application architecture, hosting models, interfaces, data flows, cloud migration and service transition.
• Strong planning, decision-making and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively through ambiguity, evolving scope and competing priorities.
• High standards of integrity, risk awareness and delivery discipline in a regulated environment.
• AI skills: Microsoft CoPilot, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Generative AI/ GenAI.

Responsibilities

• Build the authoritative application inventory covering business and technology owners, hosting, key interfaces, data dependencies, criticality and country usage.
• Agree each application’s Day 1 treatment: standalone operation, TSA-supported service, migration or retirement.
• Confirm Day 1 application requirements for each in-scope country, addressing local regulatory, operational resilience and business continuity requirements.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Data, Information Security and Outsourcing on data, access, licensing, retention, privacy and third-party service considerations.
• Develop and manage the post-close application migration roadmap, aligning with target architecture, cloud migration, TSA exit milestones and business priorities.
• Lead application scoping and design workshops with internal stakeholders, counterpart teams and service providers, turning decisions into actions and deliverables with clear owners.
• Identify, track and resolve cross-workstream dependencies across infrastructure, identity and access, data migration, end-user technology, testing, cutover and operational support.

Skills

Leadership

Application integration

Stakeholder management

Cloud migration

Data dependencies

Risk reporting

Regulatory awareness

AI skills

Job description

Join us now as Applications Integration Lead in Singapore within the Engineering & Delivery team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that business applications across Distribution, Investment & Operations, and Business Enablement are ready for Day 1 and that the post-close migration is planned and delivered in a controlled manner. Working across Investment, Distribution, Data, Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, HR and country teams, the role establishes a complete view of the application landscape, defines the appropriate treatment for each application, and provides clear readiness, dependency and risk reporting to programme governance.

The Applications Integration Lead is accountable for leading the application workstream for a multi-country M&A separation and migration programme.

What You Do

• Build the authoritative application inventory covering business and technology owners, hosting, key interfaces, data dependencies, criticality and country usage.
• Agree each application’s Day 1 treatment: standalone operation, TSA-supported service, migration or retirement.
• Confirm Day 1 application requirements for each in-scope country, addressing local regulatory, operational resilience and business continuity requirements.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Data, Information Security and Outsourcing on data, access, licensing, retention, privacy and third-party service considerations.
• Develop and manage the post-close application migration roadmap, aligning with target architecture, cloud migration, TSA exit milestones and business priorities.
• Lead application scoping and design workshops with internal stakeholders, counterpart teams and service providers, turning decisions into actions and deliverables with clear owners.
• Identify, track and resolve cross-workstream dependencies across infrastructure, identity and access, data migration, end-user technology, testing, cutover and operational support.
• Maintain the workstream plan, decision log, assumptions, risks, issues and dependencies, with clear owners and escalation routes.
• Define readiness criteria and coordinate testing, cutover, hypercare and service transition for a controlled Day 1 and subsequent migrations.
• Report concise, evidence-based updates to programme governance and the steering committee on readiness, required decisions, delivery risks and mitigations.
• Own key deliverables: application inventory, Day 1 readiness checklist, migration roadmap, dependency and risk tracker, and regular governance updates.

What You Bring

• 6 years+ of relevant technology delivery experience, including leadership of application or technology products.
• Strong understanding of asset management business processes and applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across functions and regions.
• Sound understanding of application architecture, hosting models, interfaces, data flows, cloud migration and service transition.
• Strong planning, decision-making and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively through ambiguity, evolving scope and competing priorities.
• High standards of integrity, risk awareness and delivery discipline in a regulated environment.
• AI skills: Microsoft CoPilot, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Generative AI/ GenAI

What we offer

• Balanced work environment: A dynamic office culture that supports flexibility and collaboration
• Secure your future: Access to pension, retirement, and/or savings plans as applicable to the work location
• Shared success: Company share purchasing plan
• Support for what matters: Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Investments in your career: Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
• Investments in your skills: Comprehensive learning and development offerings, including certifications and professional qualifications
• ... and so much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.

We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.

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.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our clients first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future - for our clients and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of 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.

If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environment.

To Recruitment Agencies

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