Senior

AI-Native Delivery Lead - Payco

Barcelona, Spain · Hybrid

About the Job

Payco is Allianz Technology's next-generation global platform for payments, collections, and financial subledger capabilities. Built by a small and highly dynamic team, Payco embraces AI-native software development practices from the ground up, leveraging AI coding assistants, automation, and modern engineering approaches to accelerate delivery and innovation.

As AI-Native Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of the platform, ensuring that business objectives, technical quality, and delivery milestones are successfully achieved. You will work closely with architects, engineers, business stakeholders, and AI-enabled development teams to establish efficient ways of working, remove delivery obstacles, and continuously improve how software is designed and delivered in an AI-first environment.

This role combines delivery leadership, technical understanding, stakeholder management, and team coordination within a fast-paced and evolving technology landscape.

What you do

Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Payco platform, ensuring successful execution against agreed timelines, quality standards, and business objectives.
Coordinate a cross-functional team of architects, engineers, product stakeholders, and AI-assisted development workflows to deliver scalable payment, collection, and financial solutions.
Drive project planning, prioritization, resource allocation, risk management, and dependency tracking across technical and business workstreams.
Promote and implement AI-native software delivery practices, including AI-assisted development, specification-driven delivery, automated quality controls, and agent-output validation.
Facilitate technical discussions and challenge solution design decisions, architectural trade-offs, and implementation approaches where appropriate.
Establish and continuously improve delivery processes, governance models, and team collaboration practices to support an agile and high-performing environment.
Build strong relationships with stakeholders and provide regular updates on progress, risks, milestones, and delivery outcomes.

What you bring

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Extensive experience (8+ years) in software delivery, project management, program leadership, or technology consulting environments.
Proven experience leading cross-functional technology teams and delivering complex software solutions in agile environments.
Solid understanding of modern software architectures and technologies, including cloud-native platforms, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
Familiarity with payments, collections, finance, accounting, or subledger platforms is considered a strong advantage.
Strong interest in AI-native software development, including hands-on exposure to AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, or AI-enabled delivery practices.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with fluency in English.

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 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 to run, optimize, transform, and innovate 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.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, 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.

To Recruitment Agencies:

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

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