The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why now is an exciting time to join our team. As a leader in a corporation with 83,000 employees and agency force members, you'll have a hand in transforming not only Allstate but a dynamic industry. You'll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.
You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards - a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.
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Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life's uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For 89 years we've thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever's coming next - to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We've been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don't follow the trends. We set them.
Job Summary:
The Principal Software Engineer has accountability for leading the discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions that enable business outcomes in compliance with enterprise target state architectures. As a player coach and true technologist, the Principal will lead critical groups with significant Allstate technology responsibilities. Direct groups that are more heavily resourced with more senior staff and are responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of Allstate s technology. The Principal Software Engineer is expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment that support Allstate technologies. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to lead in the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage the running of Allstate's technology applications in production, and ultimately are accountable for the success of Allstate technologies that include digital products through achieving KPIs. The Principal leads an outcome-based delivery organization, highly matrixed, and globally dispersed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for leading the solutioning and technology implementations of outcomes driven by enterprise commitments and strategic roadmaps as part of Allstate's digital transformation.
- Determines and establishes and leverages strong/trust-based relationships across technology, product stakeholders, vendors, and other partner organizations.
- Integrates by leading cross shore product teams to deliver modern technology solutions that enable business opportunities and/or solve problems.
- Accountable for leading the evolution of scalable strategic visions.
- Achieves organization financial targets and ensure viability of decisions are financially grounded.
- Achieves results through the management of teams that are responsible for strategic and critical pieces of architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
- Act as an authority in software best practices and be relied upon to propagate these in the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
- Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters.
- Integrates business plans by building foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job has supervisory duties.
Education and Experience:
- 4 year Bachelors Degree (Required)
- 12 or more years of experience (Preferred)
- In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Functional Skills:
- Experience with Agile software methodologies and test-driven development (TDD), as well as the ability to find fulfillment in building innovative products a plus
- Experience with GENAI preferred
- Technical aptitude affords familiarity with software development and engineering best practices
- Experience architecting and implementing secure enterprise-scale applications
- Experience establishing competitive intelligence capabilities in support of new market opportunities
- Experienced in product strategy, product vision definition, product roadmaps, product discovery and KPI definition and measurement
- Experienced in leading large-scale cross-shore delivery
- Expertise in building and leading global product teams, and implementing highly iterative software development practices leveraging extreme programming practices
- Proficiency in leading organizational change strategies encompassing people, processes, and technology to support digital transformation
- Ability to manage relationships and influence at VP level and above
- Adept at seeking out and creating digital ecosystems and forging relationships with academia, government bodies, and private sector
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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