Agile Coach (f/m/d)

The Agile Coach (f/m/d) for Investment Data Area will mentor and guide an Area and its teams/Squads in adopting and improving Agile practices. In your role, you will enhance Squad collaboration, efficiency, and adherence to Agile principles, facilitating continuous improvement and fostering a culture of innovation. By providing training, support, and strategic advice, Agile Coaches help the Area management and Squads to deliver high-quality products while adapting to changing business needs.

The Investment Data Area is the home for AllianzGI’s investment management related data products like, e.g. Benchmark & Market Index Data, Issuer & Security Information, Investment Key Figures, Performance & Attribution Data, etc.

As an Agile Coach, you are embedded in AllianzGI’s Agile Center of Enablement (CoE) and responsible for one Area. In close collaboration with the Area Business Lead and Area Tech Lead, you play a key role in positively challenging agile teams to stay focused on business outcomes and delivering customer value. Embedding yourself within the teams using a hands-on approach to support Agile Masters and Squads for successful delivery. Taking the lead in developing the agile capabilities of the Area, you help the team to fully capitalise on the strengths of a scaled agile set-up and remain firmly on a path of continuous improvement and learning.

As an experienced change leader, you understand the strategic importance of nurturing a strong agile mindset and enduring agile ways of working across the organisation. Furthermore, you are capable of leading and supporting this journey, identifying opportunities, and removing roadblocks where required. With the Agile CoE colleagues you further bring Agile transformation and enablement into AllianzGI globally.

This position will be based in Frankfurt or Munich.

What you will do

• Agile way of working: Identify and develop agile skills/capabilities across Squads, Chapters, and CoEs within the Area
• Agile role model: Foster the culture of self-organizing and autonomous agile teams and be the agile role model, guiding the teams in adoption of agile principles and values
• Agile impact: Enable Area Leads, Product Owners, Agile Masters and the teams/ Squads to deliver business impact, including development and implementation of agile metrics and reporting
• Driving: Drive Area level agile events such as the quarterly business review (QBR). As needed, participate in Squad events together with Agile Masters
• Coaching: Provide leadership and guidance for the entire Area as a supporter of the shared leadership team, working hand-in-hand with the Area Business Lead, Area Tech Lead, Chapter leads and Agile Masters
• Enablement: Coach and support Product Owners, Agile Masters, Chapter Leads, CoE Leads, and Tech- and Product Area Leads to live up to their target role profile
• Training: Coordinate and deliver training at all levels to increase agile awareness, the ability to deliver change, and help creating an agile mindset with different approaches
• Expedite: Facilitate Retrospectives, 1:1 sessions and workshops to continuously improve team dynamics and help to tackle impediments that cannot be resolved by the Squads and teams alone
• Drive Improvement and Transformation: Support the organization’s transition, drive continuous improvement and learning, and align with the ONE target vision

What you bring

• Educational Background: Excellent university degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, with a strong understanding of data-driven business strategies
• Asset Management Expertise: Deep passion for financial markets and a comprehensive understanding of the Asset Management value chain, front-to-back is a differentiator
• Enabling Experience: 10+ years of work experience in an enabling role in a business, consulting or IT related role
• Agile Expertise: Proven track record in agile way of working, agile methodology and frameworks like SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, Design Thinking or other
• Agile certification: An agile certification (e.g. Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Project Management, Kanban, etc.) and/or the equivalent hands-on experience in operationalising scaled agile frameworks
• Change Experience: Proven track record in driving (agile) transformation in organisations, building teams and driving continuous improvement (incl. providing training and coaching)
• Data Proficiency: Significant experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or similar roles, with a focus on leveraging data to drive business outcomes is a differentiator
• Tooling: Expert in applying JIRA, Confluence and further agile tool set (e.g., Miro) to support rapid and high-quality delivery
• Planning, Budgeting and Backlog Prioritization: Skill in driving quarterly planning cycles, managing budgets, and preparing agile decision making
• Language Skills: Fluent in English and German both written and spoken, with additional languages considered an advantage

What we offer

• We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
• Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
• Family support (relocation/ childcare facilities)
• Company share purchasing plan
• Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subvention Jobticket)
• Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
• Self-guided learning & development
• … 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 goal is to actively shape the future of investing for all our clients, wherever their location and whatever their objectives.

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.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

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. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position.  If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request to recruiting@allianzgi.com

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. 

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90649 | Operations | Professional | n.a. | Allianz Global Investors | Full-Time | Permanent