Head of IAM Delivery (2 year contract)

At Allianz, we're proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire people who can further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you will lead the execution and delivery of Identity Access Management initiatives across Allianz Australia. Your role works closely with the Head of IAM Governance and the IAM programme to oversee delivery activities, including prioritisation, enablement, stakeholder engagement, and reporting to senior leadership.

Let's care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

About the role:

• Champion and pilot emerging IAM capabilities, including adaptive authentication, passkeys/phish-resistant MFA, cloud identity, Zero Trust, and secrets management.
• Translate proven innovations into guard-railed patterns, integrating them into the roadmap while balancing user experience, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the IAM strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring alignment with Allianz Group standards and internal risk appetite.
• Establish and govern an IAM Design Authority to mandate security patterns and maintain traceability from risks to controls to outcomes.
• Drive IAM architecture decisions in collaboration with enterprise/solution architects and security engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions.
• Maintain enterprise security patterns for SSO/MFA/Conditional Access and extend patterns for API authentication and secrets management where applicable.
• Lead the IAM delivery team and oversee end-to-end execution, including application onboarding, lifecycle automation, and PAM enablement.
• Prioritise initiatives based on risk, business value, and compliance; manage dependencies, milestones, budgets, and resource capacity.
• Monitor KPIs and roadmap outcomes; prepare executive and board-level reporting on progress milestones.
• Embed IAM controls into delivered capabilities, ensuring audit-grade evidence, ongoing control effectiveness, and compliance with Allianz Group standards.

About you:

• 7+ years experience leading IAM delivery with experience managing cross-functional teams, external service providers, and enterprise-scale identity programmes.
• Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies and programme management.
• Sound ability to analyse our needs and develop appropriate solutions.
• Deep experience in an identity governance or identity and access management role for a complex, matrixed organisation, or consulting to the financial services industry. Experience with IAM and PAM products.
• Tertiary qualifications (preferred) in a business, commerce, IT, security, or other relevant discipline. Hold relevant professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, SABSA SCF, TOGAF, CCSP or equivalent.

Benefits and perks:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive team and bring your authentic self to work every day! 
• Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible and remote work options and workplace adjustments, with support for your work/life balance. 
• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness plans and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

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About Allianz Group 

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 for 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.  

Adjustments and support  

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@allianz.com.au for a confidential conversation.  

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers