Lead Engineer - Classic Products-2

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.

The Software Engineer Senior Manager is the direct leader of more critical groups with significant responsibilities. These groups may sometimes be more heavily resourced with more senior staff or more staff in general or be responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of the architecture or product. Software Engineer Senior Manager are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Software Engineer Senior Manager architectures 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.

• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters
• Build foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals
• Manage 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
• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders

• 10 or more years of experience Java and Cobol
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring boot, including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, OpenAPI spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.
• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including MicroServices architectures.
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (MongoDB, caching) and Kafka messaging.
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc ) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools .
• Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model.
• Experience with Python is a plus..

• This job has supervisory duties of up to 5 people

• Computer Science
• Continuous Integration Software
• People Management
• Relationship Building
• Software Development
• Waterfall Model