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.
Your role in the team
The Managing Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They drive an engineering approach to the full software lifecycle from development to production and operation. They own and manage their application in production and are accountable for the success of their digital products measured through relevant KPIs.
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In addition to the responsibilities of the 'Managing Engineer' the 'Lead Engineer plans, directs, designs, and executes activities and manages products that are of a complex and critical nature. The 'Lead Engineer coaches, leads, mentors, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates across their suite of digital products. They support and advise the engineering team on policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget and priorities.
The 'Lead Engineer' will lead through example to demonstrate best practice and adoption of key technologies to drive quality and delivery of Digital Products across their domain. Engineering excellence is at the heart of all they do as well as advocating and driving outcome-based iterative delivery. They take a holistic systems view and use their impact and influence to shape the backlog, not just of their own digital products teams but of partners across the organization.
Key Responsibilities (Managing Engineer)
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
- Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in to writeting software and building products
- Serves as an expert on one or more business domains and is a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and sharessharing that knowledge across organizations
- Partners in with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders to drive collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
- Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
- Provides support for software products in user environments
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices delivering Engineering Excellence
Key Responsibilities (Lead Engineer)
- Participate in product scoping, discovery, and framing, and inceptions providing technical input, and helpensuring that s translate user features requirements are translated into system design
- Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with Digital Product Manager (product DPM) Leadsmanagers, other peers and key stakeholders. The Lead Engineer ensures that all teams are aligned and committed to the Digital Product model and the delivery of value to the business
- Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product demonstrating Engineering Excellence
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
- Serves as the anchor of for 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
- Maintains an active interest in developing technologies and how they can deliver value for Allstate and its family of companies
**Please note there are multiple opportunities across these two roles.
Essential Skills
- All candidates must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy
- A minimum of 4 years (Managing Engineer) or a minimum of 5 years (Lead) experience
- Experience in event based/stream processing (eg Kafka or similar)
- Experience in building large scale performant applications using a modern development/software stack (eg Java/DB/NoSQL/REST/Full Stack)
- Experience of 'Shift left' philosophy and CI/CD for development and deployment aligning with best practices for security
Desirable Skills
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), eg (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- Experience in Containerization (eg Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience in Cloud Native (eg AWS, GCP)
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job does have supervisory duties.
Closing Date: Friday 18th October 2024
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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.
What we offer
As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.
Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.
We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.
We encourage a better work life balance and you'll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
Posting End Date:
10 October 2024