IT Control Assurance Lead_3272

Overall Objectives of Job: (If multiple sections, accord weightage to each section)

The Assurance Function Lead is accountable for building and operating the internal readiness and control-assurance capability within Allianz Technology of America’s IT organization. Reporting directly to the CISO, this role acts as the senior point of accountability for the Assurance Operating Model across policy operationalization, control solutions development, evidence readiness, and assessment preparation. The Lead consolidates the responsibilities of Service Owners into a single leadership function, driving compliant-by-design principles across IT service domains.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in IT governance, risk, compliance, or security assurance roles within large, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading an internal IT audit readiness, GRC, or control assurance function.
• Proven track record of translating security policy requirements into actionable IT control frameworks and BAU processes.
• Experience managing or leading teams responsible for evidence collection, control testing, or compliance reporting.
• Prior exposure to Allianz ARS processes, TMC controls, or equivalent group-level IT compliance frameworks is strongly preferred.

Role & Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior accountable owner for the ARS internal readiness function, ensuring continuous assessment preparedness across all in-scope IT services.
• Lead the operationalization of Group IT CISO policy and Target Measure Catalog (TMC) control updates coordinating communication, solution design, implementation planning, and execution across IT teams.
• Embed ARS control requirements into the design and build of new and changed services, working with Architecture, Project Managers, and Service Owners to ensure security is designed into Services from inception.
• Own and maintain the overall control solutions and documentation framework defining control solutions, onboarding of services to those control solutions including the onboarding to common capabilities and the enablement of automation.
• Oversee BAU evidence creation and assessment preparation activities, instilling evidence collection as a routine discipline and managing the evidence repository.
• Execute the ARS process on behalf of the Service Owners.
• Manage and develop a team of Assurance Function Team Members, providing direction, coaching, and quality oversight across their control and evidence workstreams.
• Serve as the primary liaison to the ARS Team, Security Governance, and DIRM on issues, risks, and assessment outcomes, ensuring timely issue resolution and risk mitigation.
• Drive continuous improvement, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual effort in compliance activities.
• Maintain escalation accountability for control findings and non-compliance, reporting status to the CISO and Head of IT as appropriate.
• Define and maintain operating procedures, training materials, and onboarding content for the Assurance Function.

Key Result Areas

• ARS - Ensure timely completion of all ARS assessment cycles, Maintain continuous assessment readiness for ARS audits, Achieve satisfactory and improving assessment outcomes
• Operationalize Group IT CISO policy and TMC control updates within defined timelines, Maintain an up-to-date and auditable control solutions & documentation framework, Embed ARS control requirements into all new and changed services
• Ensure BAU evidence creation is complete and audit-ready at all times. Maintain an organised, accessible, and well-governed evidence repository, Drive automation and AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual compliance effort
• Serve as the effective senior liaison with ARS Team, Security Governance, and DIRM
• Manage and actively develop all Assurance Function team members, Build a high-performing, self-sufficient assurance team
  
  

  Good to have :

  •  Having a basic understanding or exposure to AI tools would be a plus.
  • Familiarity with basic AI tools is considered an advantage.
  • Basic knowledge or experience with AI tools will be beneficial.
  • Exposure to AI tools, even at a basic level, is a value-add.A fundamental grasp of AI tools will be an added benefit.

  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 abroadWe 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 fosteredFlexible 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
  What We Offer
  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 with running, optimizing, transforming, and innovating 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.

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. 

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. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of 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. 

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