Business Analyst

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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.

**JOB PURPOSE/ROLE**

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 tech savvy Business Analyst (f/m/d) for our Wealth Management Technology team, with a strong focus and experience on API management using API management platform (e.g. Apigee or others). The position offers the opportunity to play a vital role in the optimization, harmonization and further global build-out of our Digital Asset Management service offering, including gaining new partnerships, e.g. actively contributing to RfPs we participate in and lead the direct communication with potential new business partners for the technology part, in particular in South East Asia.The position is based in our Singapore office.

In addition to becoming part of Wealth Management Technology team and reporting to Head of Wealth Management Technology in this role, you will automatically join an open-minded, business and tech combining team committed to make “simplicity at scale” happen. In this cross-functional Digital Investment Engine team we are passionate about putting AllianzGI’s unique knowledge to our distribution partners with the means of state-of-the-art technology (cloud-based API services). We have already successfully established our services in the European market and are now looking forward to expanding into Asia together with engaged personalities who want to either join our existing team in Europe or enhance our team presence in Asia and who are keen on driving forward AllianzGI’s Digital Business across borders - globally

**Role & responsibilities**

Grow our technology:

- Contribute to the API roadmap and build-out of our API offering
- Detailed analysis of technical requirements, design and implementation of technical solutions in close collaboration with solution architects, developer and devops experts
- Assist in creating conceptual technical specifications and ensure fit of the proposed solutions with both the business requirements and the group / corporate governance and standards
- Coordinate delivering of technical components in closely cooperation with internal teams and our international external IT Service-Partners
- Support production rollouts through communication and coordination with the responsible departments and suppliers

Grow our business:

- Strong support in promoting AllianzGI API offering, active participation in RfPs / proposals/ pitches and be the first point of contact for our partners for technical matters
- Close cooperation and partnership with the business, mainly Digital Business & Distribution, to support the API strategy from an IT perspective, identify and propose solutions for business need

**Experience & knowledge**
- Experience in technical business analyses and design in major IT projects (with agile approach), including but not limited to building business cases, technical requirement analysis, solution proposal, test planning and coordination, and delivery of associated documentations
- Proven strong analytical skills, passion for innovative development topics and solution-oriented approach
- Strong communication skills as well as ability to promote ideas and concepts with various stakeholders, from business departments, IT experts to IT management
- Ability to describe complex systems and technical processes clearly and succinctly, in a way that is understandable for business users, colleagues and implementation partners spread across the globe
- Experience with Apigee or other API management platforms
- Experience with cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Service
- Familiar with the cooperation with different cultures and virtual teams
- Relevant Information Technology degree or 5+ years of work experience in this flexible and fast-changing environment
- Fluency in English and Mandarin required, further languages would be highly beneficial

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