Senior Chapter Lead

A chapter lead is a responsible for continuously developing the skills and professionals of their chapter members. Chapter Leads help build the profession of their Chapter members working in Agile Squads and enable these with the skills and tools needed to build the most robust solution. For this role in Cluster Security Awareness and Transparency (SAT) team, the incumbent is expected to have relevant understanding of Information Security domains, security awareness and training, basics cloud security knowledge and Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) area.

You will

• Lead a team of individuals within a specific discipline or function, providing guidance, mentorship, and support for their professional growth.
• Act as role models for Agile with the aim of inspiring, training, and encouraging Chapter members to use Agile working practices to undergo personal further development and to express their own ideas.
• Balance their Squad and line duties. In addition, they are responsible for developing skills within the Chapter, designing, and enforcing standards of their profession, and building capabilities through knowledge sharing.
• Works closely with capacity planning, utilization and forecast with Product Owner (PO), Cluster Product Owner (CPO), Scrum Masters and Tribe Lead.
• Be responsible to drive people process of Cluster SAT function in-line with financial targets of the function and contribute towards overall productivity and delivery efficiency.
• They serve their people and their Areas, and the Agile Squads to foster a learning organization and make people awesome.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to discuss career development (Personal Development plan), challenges, and provide constructive feedback. Provide ongoing performance feedback through regular check-ins and performance reviews.
• Collaborate with team members to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Monitor team performance, ensuring the right balance of workload and resources. Allocate resources effectively to meet project deadlines and deliverables.
• Conduct mid-year and annual performance reviews, assessing individual and team progress, offering constructive feedback, and adjusting goals as necessary.
•  Address performance issues early and work with individuals to create action plans (PIP) for improvement.
• Be responsible for the further development of the competencies and soft skills of respective team members (referred as squad members).
• Identify training and development needs in collaboration with POs, CPO, L&D team, and providing opportunities for team members to acquire new skills.
• Works in tandem with Product Owners, Cluster Product Owner, Tribe Lead and Scrum Masters to understand the short- and long-term resource planning and skill landscape strategy to ensure fine balance of right skills at right level is maintained across the chapter(s).
• Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members, ensuring the team has the right skills to meet business needs.
• Collaborate with other Chapter Leads and functional teams to ensure cross-functional alignment and to share best practices.
• Focuses on right upskilling, cross-skilling, and personal development plan of each chapter member.
• Joins hands to drive overall people engagement in the chapter and overall Cluster SAT members.
• Responsible to handle grievances or concerns arising from squad members and meet effective resolution.
• Actively drive agile transformation and foster end-to-end ownership mindset within the function.
• Responsible for housekeeping (e.g., resource management, access management, timecards) according to local regulations.
• Responsible to maintain a safe and inclusive environment where chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment and learn from failure.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership regarding team performance, challenges, and resource needs.
• Point of contact for security and assurance, and other regulatory topics including Asset Risk Assurance, Privacy Impact Assessments, IT DR, BIA, Security Audits, Authorization concept and other regulatory (DORA, VAIT) topics for SAT cluster.
• Promote work-life balance and support the well-being of team members.

Your skills

• You enjoy working with people - individually and in groups and are solution-oriented, proactive, independent, structured and reflective. You communicate clearly, can adapt flexibly to a counterpart and are enthusiastic about new topics.
• You have an agile mindset, live agile leadership (servant leadership) and agile methods.
• You will quickly build an understanding of the content in order to address the concerns of the employees of your chapter.
• You deal successfully with external service providers or are ready to learn the ropes.
• Advantageous: You have already gained experience in people management in the past (e.g., technical or disciplinary, #lead or similar leadership training)
• Had adequate knowledge of Information Security and its related IT landscape.
• Work Experience with Information Security and ticketing solutions e.g. Archer, Zscalar, Phishme tool, SNOW, JIRA etc.
• Having work experience of  people management and is a must and experience in Agile transformation or equivalent would be an added advantage.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience

Your benefits

· 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 to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teachAbout Allianz Technolog

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 13,000 employees located in 22 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

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