Spotlight: Allianz UK, Women in Technology Excellence Awards finalist

'Being shortlisted as Best Employer reflects the work our teams and our Women in Technology network do every day to make Allianz UK a place where everyone can thrive'

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Allianz UK is one of the country's leading insurers, serving millions of personal and commercial customers as part of the global Allianz Group.

Allianz UK is a finalist in the Best Employer of the Year category at the Women in Technology Excellence Awards, which takes place on 26th November.

Our technology function, spanning Retained IT Operations and Transformation, powers everything from customer-facing digital platforms to core systems that process billions of pounds in claims and premiums each year.

We aren't a cloud vendor. We adopt cloud at scale, bringing deep insurance and risk expertise together with modern platforms and an inclusive technology workforce. Women make up 49% of our technology and transformation workforce and hold 42% of executive-level roles.

Cloud solutions and services

Our cloud portfolio is focused on modernising the core of insurance and the way we serve customers. It includes the Guidewire Cloud policy platform, a modern cloud contact-centre telephony platform used across all business lines, and enterprise automation and generative AI capabilities.

Together, they help us tackle the challenges every insurer faces: replacing ageing legacy estates, improving resilience, speeding up change and giving customers faster, more personal service.

Customer success story

Allianz UK became the first UK insurer to launch fully on Guidewire Cloud across an entire insurance line. The cutover happened over a single bank holiday weekend and completed a two-year transformation programme. The work was shortlisted for Technology Collaboration of the Year - Efficiency at the British Insurance Technology Awards.

We’ve also updated our telephony estate with a modern cloud-based platform that supports more than 3,600 customer-facing colleagues. It brings in chatbots, live chat, automated quality assurance and voice-to-text transcription - bringing all of our contact centre colleagues onto the same system and ensuring that our customers have a consistent experience across Allianz UK.

"Cloud and AI are only as powerful as the people who shape them. Being shortlisted as Best Employer reflects the work our teams and our Women in Technology network do every day to make Allianz UK a place where everyone can thrive and build the future of insurance."

Ben Turner, Chief Information Officer, Allianz UK

Industry expertise and innovation

We treat cloud adoption as a business and people transformation, not just a technical one. Our automation team was named Global Winner of the Blue Prism Operational Ingenuity Award. Its governance framework returns more than 300,000 hours a year to the business.

We, like all insurers, are embedding AI into our business and Allianz Group ranks #1 in the 2026 Evident AI Index for Insurance and keeps responsible AI and human oversight at its core. Security is built in through our annual Cyber Security Awareness Month. Skills underpin all of this. Colleagues get 43 hours of protected learning time a year and access to programmes such as Fit4AI and the Operations & IT Academy and a fully funded data apprenticeship cohort of 28 colleagues is under way.

Future vision

The next wave of cloud value will come from agentic AI, cloud-native core platforms and data that is connected securely across the business. We're preparing for it by modernising our core systems, scaling responsible AI and building a diverse, future-ready technology workforce. That includes a Women in Tech (WIT) network of more than 50 members actively involved and contributing, outreach with partners such as Barnardo's and clear career pathways from early careers to leadership.

The Women in Tech Excellence Awards takes place on 26th November in London. Click here to view the list of finalists!