Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Scrum, Project
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you guide teams in adopting Agile methodologies, conduct training sessions, optimize workflows, and assist in planning and prioritization within the Investment Data area.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Agile Coach for the Investment Data Area drives the Area and its Squads in adopting and improving Agile practices, enhancing collaboration, efficiency and adherence to Agile principles.
- Durch Schulungen (z. B. Agile Arbeitsweisen, JIRA usw.), praktische Unterstützung und Beratung helfen Agile Coaches dem Bereichsmanagement und den Squads, qualitativ hochwertige Produkte zu liefern und sich gleichzeitig an sich ändernde Geschäftsanforderungen anzupassen.
- As an Agile Coach, you are embedded in AllianzGI's Agile CoE and responsible for one Area.
- In close collaboration with the Area Business Lead and Area Tech Lead, you play a key role in transforming agile teams to stay focused on business outcomes and customer value while maintaining agile tool- and mindset.
- Embedding yourself within the teams with a hands-on approach, you help Agile Masters and Squads capitalise on the strengths of a scaled agile set-up and stay on a path of continuous improvement.
- As an experienced consultant and change leader, you understand that products differ in agile maturity and the importance of a common basis for the entire area, including aligned Jira setups.
- You lead this journey, identifying opportunities and removing roadblocks, and bring Agile transformation into AllianzGI globally with the Agile CoE.
- Beyond coaching, you act as the Area's hands-on delivery driver - diagnosing bottlenecks, structuring corrective action plans, and driving execution with the rigor of a consultant and the accountability of a delivery owner, even without formal reporting authority.
- Agile Delivery Excellence: Own area-level delivery performance - predictability, flow, throughput, and business outcomes - intervening directly where squads are off track.
- Führen Sie den Delivery-Governance-Rhythmus des Bereichs (z. B. Area Sync) und fördern Sie die Akzeptanz von Delivery-Praktiken, Metriken und Berichterstattung, die datenbasierte Entscheidungen unterstützen (inkl. JIRA).
- Agile role model: Foster a culture of self-organizing, autonomous agile teams and act as the agile role model, guiding Squads in adopting agile principles and values.
- Coaching: Act as trusted advisor and de facto delivery lead for the Area's shared leadership team, working hand-in-hand with the Area Business Lead, Area Tech Lead, Chapter leads and Agile Masters.
- Driving: Facilitate area-level agile events such as the QBR, and regularly participate in Squad ceremonies with Agile Masters to actively unblock delivery, not just observe.
- Agile impact: Enable Area Leads, POs, Agile Masters and teams to deliver significant business impact, including data-driven development of agile metrics and reporting (e.g., JIRA).
- Hands-on Squad Enablement: Provide hands-on support to Squads in establishing effective delivery practices: backlog management, planning, prioritisation, dependency management and delivery tracking in Jira.
- Diagnostic & Advisory: Apply structured problem-solving to assess delivery maturity and operating-model gaps, translating findings into concrete, time-bound improvement plans - as an external consultant would.
- Training: Coordinate and deliver training at all levels to increase agile awareness, ability to deliver change, and help create an agile mindset.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Educational Background: Excellent university degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or related field, with a strong understanding of data-driven business strategies.
Qualifications
- Asset Management Expertise: Deep passion for financial markets and understanding of the Asset Management value chain, front-to-back, is a differentiator.
- Agile expertise: Proven track record in agile ways of working and frameworks (SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, Design Thinking, etc.), with excellent JIRA and agile tool expertise (e.g., MIRO).
- Comfortable making driving decisions and holding teams accountable despite having no formal line authority.
- Consulting Skills: Structured, hypothesis-driven problem-solving; strong executive communication and stakeholder management; ability to build business cases and influence decisions.
- Tooling: Expert in Jira, Confluence and other agile tools (e.g., Miro) to support rapid, high-quality delivery.
- Planning, Budgeting and Backlog Prioritization: Skill in driving quarterly planning cycles, managing budgets and enabling agile decision-making.
- Language Skills: Fluent in English and German, with additional languages considered an advantage.
- AI skills such as Microsoft Copilot.
Experience
- Enabling Experience: 10+ years in an enabling role in business, consulting or IT.
- Agile certification: An agile certification (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Kanban, etc.) and/or equivalent hands-on experience in implementing scaled agile frameworks.
- Delivery Leadership: Proven experience improving delivery performance, predictability, transparency and execution within agile organisations, with strong understanding of flow-based delivery, dependency and backlog management.
- Change Experience: Proven track record driving (agile) transformation, building teams and continuous improvement.
- Data Proficiency: Significant experience in Data Governance or Data Management, with a focus on leveraging data to drive business outcomes, is a differentiator.
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What we offer
- We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours).
- Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans.
- Family support (relocation/ childcare facilities).
- Company share purchasing plan.
- Programme for mental health and wellbeing.
- Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subsidized Jobticket).
- Karrierechancen innerhalb der gesamten Allianz Group.
- Self-guided learning & development.
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Benefits
Higher Take-Home Pay
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
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About Your Employer
Allianz SE
Allianz is a great place to work for people who want to take initiative and grow within the company. With a strong global presence, Allianz is always looking for ways to improve and stay ahead of the competition. The company truly cares about its 85 million customers and 142,000 employees. Allianz fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation, where employees are encouraged to perform to the best of their abilities and challenge the status quo. If you're looking for an exciting and supportive work environment, Allianz is the place for you.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
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Agile Coach
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
