Managing Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Software Engineer Associate Manager architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer Associate Manager plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature. The Software Engineer Associate Manager selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates medium to large teams. Additionally, they confer with and advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day to day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
• Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product
• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behavior and coaching of Product Engineers.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 12 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Hands on experience in Mainframe Technologies and Products like COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM
• Hands-on experience with Propagator code base, and writing code abiding to Propagator Infrastructure and standards
• Experience debugging code using IBM Debugger
• Experience developing code using IBM RDZ
• Experience in testing Propagator code changes and executing model runs
• Experience with CICS, IMS DB would be beneficial
• Experience with any scripting languages like REXX would be beneficial
• Understands microservices and event driven patterns

Skills

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $95,700.00 - 170,925.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.  

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

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