130 years of trust, time to shape what's next. Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers - built on over a century of stability, expertise, and financial strength. Allianz Services is where that legacy meets the future. 8,200+ people. Eight countries. Three continents. We deliver specialized services to clients within Allianz Group, powered by AI, advanced analytics, and a mindset that refuses to stand still. From core insurance operations to engineering and consulting services, we reimagine how insurance works. What truly sets us apart are our people and the trusted partnerships we build, anchored in our values of expertise, integrity, and empowerment. We don't support the business. We shape it.
Role overview
The Information Security Officer (ISO) is a key role within Allianz Services, accountable for the information security posture supporting Allianz businesses in Portugal and Spain. This includes oversight of ISMS activities, security risk identification, assessment, prevention, and remediation — encompassing services delivered by third parties.
The ISO provides strategic advice to regional management and local Allianz Services functions on information security risk areas, ensuring alignment with organizational and regulatory requirements.
What you do:
- Oversee the Information Security function in Portugal and Spain, serving as the central contact for all IS matters across business, partners, customers and safeguarding functions.
- Ensure compliance with Group-wide IS framework, regulatory requirements, and industry standards across all Allianz Services projects and throughout the full-service life cycle, including external parties and outsourcing partners.
- Support local and regional leadership in IS governance requirements, organizational structures and annual compliance reporting.
- Manage security risks by conducting risk assessments, evaluating effectiveness of security controls, addressing policy deviations and developing mitigation strategies.
- Provide IS consulting and stakeholder engagement, liaising with regional/central IS teams, contributing to the global ISO community and promoting security awareness.
- Contribute to third-party management by defining contractual security provisions and ensuring security standards are met by partners and providers.
What you bring:
- University degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Extensive IT background with 3+ years of experience in Information Security and/or risk management
- Strong knowledge of IT security technology, architecture, processes, and information security management systems (e.g., ISO 27001), including relevant industry standards, control frameworks and local regulatory requirements
- Professional experience in supplier and third-party management, including Cloud providers and IT outsourcing, with a proven ability to define and monitor contractual information security provisions
- Demonstrated experience in people management and/or project management within complex enterprise environments
- Fluency in Portuguese and English
- Preferred: CISSP, CCSP, TOGAF, SABSA or equivalent certifications; Microsoft Security Certifications (SC-300, MD-102, MS-102); experience in Financial Services, Insurance, or highly regulated industries.
- We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.
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
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.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for 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. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.