Principal Software 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 Engineering Director has accountability for leading the discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions that enable business outcomes in compliance with enterprise target state architectures. The incumbent has direct leadership over critical groups with significant Allstate technology responsibilities. Directs 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 Software Engineering Director 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 Director leads an outcome-based delivery organization, highly matrixed, and globally dispersed.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters.

• Integrates business plans by building foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.

• 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.

• Accountable for leading the solutioning and technology implementations of outcomes driven by enterprise commitments and strategic roadmaps.

• 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.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Required)

Experience

• 12 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Functional Skills

• 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

• Experience with Agile software methodologies and test-driven development (TDD), as well as the ability to find fulfillment in building innovative products a plus

• Adept at seeking out and creating digital ecosystems and forging relationships with academia, government bodies, and private sector

• 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

Skills

Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented

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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