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At Allianz Global Investors our people enjoy motivating, fulfilling careers. If you are looking for a fast-paced working environment, you are resolved to cultivate and expand your talents and relish a challenge, then join us now!

We are committed to giving our people – experienced and energetic professionals alike – the opportunities and experiences they seek to thrive and gain personal fulfilment. We will work with you to craft your own career, develop your personal growth, and align your achievements with your ambitions.

We are looking for you! We are currently hiring a forward-thinking and results-oriented IT Business Analyst - Marketing Technology (f/m/d). The position is based in our Frankfurt office.

As part of the Change & Delivery function, the Marketing Technology team caters to the technology needs of the Marketing colleagues. From websites and email marketing through handling the document lifecycle up to Marketing Analytics, we advise, discuss, conceptualize, analyze, implement, test, roll out & maintain technologies and solutions that support the Marketing processes around the globe. We are Marketing’s consultants and trusted partners in all things technological, and we need YOU to complement our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the business to identify and propose solutions for business needs
• Ensure fit of the proposed solutions with both the business requirements and the group / corporate governance and standards
• Coordinate and prepare functional and non-functional requirements specifications jointly with the business owners
• Write conceptual specifications and application design documents, based on the user requirements
• Align with architects, integrators, and developers to ensure that the technical specifications meet the requirements
• Perform pre-acceptance testing, and support integration tests as well as user acceptance tests
• Support production rollouts through communication and coordination with the responsible departments and suppliers
• Regularly align with Infrastructure Operations and Production Services to facilitate knowledge transfer and smooth production operations
• Handle external software vendors and internal clients
• Support users in their day-to-day application use, including configuration of business applications

Key Requirements/Skills/Experience:

• Relevant Information Technology degree or related field of study or ideally 5 years of work experience
• Business analysis experience in major IT projects
• Proven strong analytical skills and client focus
• Ability to promote ideas and concepts with stakeholders from various functions and seniority levels
• Ability to describe complex systems and processes clearly and succinctly
• Strong vendor communication and management skills
• Experience in Marketing related digital ecosystems, with a focus on the content and document value chain from planning and production to document distribution
• Experience with further Distribution & Marketing systems such as DXM (Sitecore) and CRM (Salesforce) highly desirable
• Experience and motivation to introduce best practices from other industries into the specific requirements of a financial services institution
• Experience working in agile projects & teams (SCRUM)
• Knowledge in project management is a plus
• Proficiency in English and German (written and spoken)

Technology used in the Marketing space

• 3-tier on premise architectures as well as SaaS-Solutions
• Relational databases (MS-SQL Server) and Azure Data Lake
• Experience with DevOps is an advantage

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager with over 600 investment professionals in over 20 offices worldwide and managing EUR 578 billion in assets. Data as of 30 June 2022

We invest for the long term and seek to generate value for clients every step of the way. We do this by being active – in how we partner with clients and anticipate their changing needs, and build solutions based on capabilities across public and private markets.

Our focus on protecting and enhancing our clients’ assets leads naturally to a commitment to sustainability to drive positive change. Our goal is to elevate the investment experience for clients, whatever their location or objectives.

Putting our clients' needs first, behaving in an open and transparent way and treating people fairly means acting with integrity. We respect difference and diversity and reward individual performance as well as teamwork. We offer a collegial culture based on strong values, taking individual responsibility, and dedication to mastering challenging tasks. To harness the power of innovation, we invest in the development of our employees. We encourage you to make an impact in a diverse, international, technology-enabled, and increasingly agile environment. If you feel inspired to elevate the active asset management experience, this is the place for you.

We are committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing assistance to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you need support to navigate our websites or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to recruiting@allianzgi.com.

Active is: Allianz Global Investors

AllianzGI completed the transfer of investment teams (including 87 Investment Professionals) and USD 101bn of assets they manage to Voya Investment Management as part of a strategic partnership. Two thirds of the assets continue to be managed on behalf of AllianzGI clients outside of the US.