IT Transformation Manager (m/f/d)

About the Job

Join Allianz as an IT Transformation Manager - Cloud / DevOps within our IT team, reporting to the Head of IT, where you will lead the Cloud and DevOps transformation of our Italian IT landscape and act as the bridge to our AI Transformation program. Our team is responsible for modernizing the way we build, deploy, and run applications, moving towards a modern, automated, cloud-native delivery pipeline aligned with Allianz Technology Group's target platforms and standards.

Cloud / DevOps and AI are two sides of the same transformation: the AI use cases we want to industrialize only scale on a modern, automated delivery pipeline. This role owns both the DevOps roadmap and the connection to our AI Factory, so that the two tracks move as one program rather than as parallel efforts pulling the same teams in different directions. The role also co-leads our Fit / Ways-of-Working transformation, embedding the new engineering and delivery practices into how our teams work every day.

In this dynamic environment, we are seeking an IT Transformation Manager with hands-on cloud and DevOps credentials, proven experience in bringing AI solutions to production, and the ability to lead governance across multiple stakeholders. You will play a crucial role in planning, governing, and delivering the local Cloud / DevOps and AI transformation path within the global program.

If you are passionate about building the engineering foundation that turns AI ambition into production reality, and thrive in a challenging and evolving setting, we invite you to become part of our journey.

What you do

• Define, govern, and deliver the end-to-end Cloud and DevOps transformation roadmap (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, observability, FinOps), ensuring scope, timeline, and budget are met.
• Act as the liaison between the Cloud / DevOps track and the AI Transformation: translate AI industrialization needs into pipeline and platform requirements, and ensure AI use cases move from pilot to production on the standard delivery pipeline.
• Co-lead the Fit / Ways-of-Working transformation, designing and rolling out AI-native, product-oriented ways of working across delivery teams together with the AI Factory and workforce transformation leads.
• Coordinate with Allianz Technology Group platform and AI teams and with local teams to align the Italian Cloud / DevOps roadmap with the Group's target solutions and standards.
• Guide engineering teams in adopting modern practices (DevSecOps, SRE, AI-assisted and spec-driven development), evaluating use cases and supporting their rollout across the application landscape.
• Engage with application owners and the business to prioritize modernization initiatives and to shape the technological solutions that support the business strategy.
• Monitor program performance across both tracks, manage dependencies, risks, and issues, and report status to senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic business goals.

What you bring

• Proven track record in leading Cloud and DevOps transformations at scale, ideally gained at a hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) or in a cloud-native organization. Hands-on understanding of modern software delivery: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers and Kubernetes, platform engineering, observability, and security by design.
• Experience in industrializing AI, ML, or Generative AI solutions (MLOps / LLMOps), with a clear view of what AI workloads require from the delivery pipeline and the underlying platform. Experience in leading ways-of-working or operating model change in IT organizations, with the ability to bring engineering teams along.
• Solid understanding of program and project management practices (scope, budget, risk, and stakeholder management) and of governing technology transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted requirements definition and development methodologies, such as Spec-Driven Design, is a plus. Familiarity with regulatory requirements for cloud and AI in financial services (e.g. DORA, EU AI Act) is a plus.
• Degree in IT, Engineering or Management with at least 10 years of relevant experience, including several years in cloud / DevOps leadership roles.
• Proficiency in navigating infrastructural constraints and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a dynamic team environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with fluency in both Italian and English, written and spoken.
• Areas of Expertise: Cloud and DevOps Transformation; AI Industrialization and Platform Engineering; Ways-of-Working and Operating Model Transformation.

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 to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

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 to run, optimize, transform and innovate 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 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.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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 agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement 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 was ultimately employed by Allianz.

109714 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent