Product Owner APAC_2218

The OPUS application is the primary policy management and administration application for multiple lines of business serving 5 distinct regional operating entities in the APAC region.
The Product Owner is responsible for the delivery of their agile team (comprising business analysts, developers and testers).  This is achieved by managing and prioritising the product backlog and defining the vision of the product according to the partners.  You will need to understand customers, market, competition, and identify trends and opportunities in each of these areas with the objective of maximizing the value of the product delivery in an agile framework.

What You Do:

• Prioritise backlog epics/user stories to be completed by delivery team according to guidance from product management and business leaders.
• Conduct backlog grooming to ensure the team has a sufficient number of well-understood user stories ready for development and to ensure completeness of requirements prior to development according to the team definition of ready.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners and mange dependencies for portfolio level delivery.
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings, iteration reviews/planning, and backlog refinement sessions.

• Work closely with the Product Manager to develop and maintain the product backlog, ensuring regular PM/PO synchronization.

• Support the full policy lifecycle processing within the OPUS application, from quotations and policy issuance to claims, settlements and financial reporting.
• Engage in UPI planning.
• Ensure the implementation of DORA for Regional OPUS application.
• Gather audit evidence for internal and external auditors.
• Manage vendor relationships, including TCS Status Report meetings and External Resource Onboarding/Offboarding.
• Attend HK Midcorp Portal (AQUA) Monthly Meetings.
• Regularly provides updates and creates transparency towards the customer on what the Scrum Team will work on next.
• Ensures that product increments are delivered in high quality and iteratively considering customer and stakeholder feedback, thus ensuring continuous product improvement.
• Identify and provide solutions for product-related impediments.
• Operate within an agile framework using agile principles and practices, while also applying specific practices from waterfall project management if necessary.

What You Bring:
• Agile mindset.

• Experience of the insurance market in areas such as Aviation, Property, Entertainment, Marine, Engineering, Financial lines or Liability.
• Critical thinking generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, and communication.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Relevant work experience in leadership, management, or other relevant areas.
• Experience in an Global company operating in an Agile delivery model desirable.
• Basic knowledge of AI technologies, 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 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 balancing family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. Access to over 10,000 on-demand learning resources and programs supports you in taking control of your career development.

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. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.

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 agency or search firm recruiters. When we engage with recruitment agencies, the partnership 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 is ultimately employed by Allianz.