Chapter Lead

About the Job

The Chapter Lead combines hands-on delivery leadership — as an experienced Tech Lead — with people leadership for the chapter. They strengthen engineering practices and drive strategic enablers such as AI and DevOps (examples that may evolve over time), while growing their people through coaching, development, and succession planning, and building communities that elevate the way teams work.

What you do

• Act as an experienced Tech Lead within a squad, owning delivery outcomes hands-on.
• Champion key strategic enablers aligned with the Commercial vertical’s priorities (e.g., AI, DevOps), guiding teams — together with tribe and product leaders — on embedding them into delivery practices and ways of working.
• Drive communities of practice that promote continuous learning and cross-team collaboration, standardizing and sharing best practices, design patterns, and tools.
• Lead end-to-end people leadership for the chapter: hiring and onboarding, ongoing feedback and coaching, and promotion/succession readiness.
• Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive chapter culture that supports engagement, retention, and professional growth.
• Coordinate with tribe, product, and other chapter leads on capability mapping, ensuring the chapter's talent supply matches current and future delivery needs.

What you bring

• At least 8 years of professional experience in software development; hands-on coding today is not required, but prior hands-on experience is.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in an IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, from architecture and systems design to quality and delivery practices.
• Solid experience to AI-assisted software development.
• People management experience — coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
• Ability to operate effectively across variable time allocation between people leadership and delivery work, depending on chapter size and project load.
• Financials or product ownership or service management experience is a plus.

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.

106071 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent

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.