Position Summary:
The Allianz Technology Digital Resilience team is driving Security, Resilience and Compliance of our Global operations.
The Digital Resilience Officer is responsible for safeguarding the organization’s digital infrastructure against cyber threats and ensuring the continuity of digital operations.
This role involves developing and implementing resilience strategies, managing risks and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. The Digital Resilience Officer collaborates with various departments such as Corporate Information Security, IT, Risk, Privacy to enhance the security and robustness of digital systems, while also acting as a risk champion to promote a strong risk culture within the organization.
Your Key Responsibilities as Local Digital Resilience Officer
Risk Management:
- Implement and maintain effective risk controls aligned with the Risk Policy Framework, ensuring integration into operational processes and compliance with regulatory obligations for Spain.
- Lead identification, assessment and management of risks across the applications and services of your location.
- Act as Partner to the Head of Branch informing them about the local risk and compliance level.
- Partner with Service and Control owners to enhance risk management maturity, streamline assurance processes and manage customer audit requests.
- Support Third Party Risk Management activities locally, coordinating with global TPRM and local stakeholders in the areas of Procurement, Information Security, Data Privacy and others.
Customer Alignment:
- Strengthen risk management relationships with customers (Operating Entities), serving as the primary contact between local Allianz Entities and Allianz Technology Branch on matters of Risk and Compliance.
- Document and ensure compliance with local requirements for control and compliance obligations, assessing new requirements appropriately.
- Lead management and prioritization of audit demands and support the branch in responding to audit requests, maintaining consistent process documentation and reliable status tracking to facilitate audit preparation.
Compliance:
- Conduct compliance benchmarking exercises within the Branches, identifying deviations from corporate policy and tracking ownership and approved deviations.
- Ensure compliance with internal- and external contractual obligations across service functions from the Allianz Technology branch and global functions.
IT Governance:
- Ensure local adoption of global IT policies and document any necessary deviations.
- Act as key point of contact for contracting activities of intercompany services, maintaining documentation up to date, steering checkpoints with global counterparts and local teams.
- Coordinate service design process and work with local Service Owners to complete and update service templates and information.
Digital Resilience Community:
- Act as a risk champion, collaborating with other safeguarding functions and the 2nd Line to enhance risk culture within the branch.
- Engage with global risk communities to shape the future of digital resilience within the organization.
Qualification, Experience and Skills:
- Years of experience: more than 3 years of expertise in Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Governance Compliance
- Education: degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Law, with a focus on IT or Cybersecurity
- Proven experience in digital security, resilience and risk management.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, standards and best practices (e.g., ISO, NIST, DORA, etc.).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of incident response and recovery procedures
- Familiarity with local and global regulatory requirements and compliance standards.
- Data-driven mindset with experience in data analysis and interpretation.
- Strong communication skills in English (written and verbal)
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 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.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, 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.
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.
