Product Engineering (Guidewire BillingCenter Configuration & Integration

Job Description

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.

Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to reassure both customers and employees with its Youre in Good Hands promise and is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years.

Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism.

Hybrid.

• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)
• Good Office program (receive up to $400 back after purchasing office equipment)
• Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans
• Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions
• Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing
• Personal days
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Working within the community and giving back

Allstate Canada, Financials, have moved to the Allstate Technology Solutions (ATS) model and have an opportunity to support our Transformative Growth plans. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growth area that will help to expand your skill base and give you the opportunity to grow and develop in a new platform. The successful candidate will help drive the deliverables of the project as well as the harmonization of team needs and capability with delivery requirements and other stakeholders within the delivery ecosystem across multiple functional areas/vendors.

There will also be an opportunity to work closely with the other four Digital Product teams in Financials as a Product family.

• Help drive the deliverables of the project and harmonize team needs and capability with delivery requirements and other stakeholders.
• Participate in identifying, designing and building application improvements.
• Design and build on product roadmap, production defect fixes, general lifecycle management activities and ensure performance, availability, and stability of the application suites.
• Participate in iteration planning meetings ensuring common understanding of each story and backlog items.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and lead the team with full enthusiasm.
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborate in problem solving.
• Conduct analysis and coding for UI and middleware components, implement code refactoring for enhanced reusability and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, testing (unit, integration, performance) and retrospectives to derive actionable items.
• Understand all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, quality assurance, and release management.
• Serve as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrate leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack.
• Establish Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment pipelines and practices.
• Build and manage integration of new applications in accordance with Allstate standards and governance.

• Take care of the Guidewire Billing Center by troubleshooting and resolving any degradation of service, application validations and be involved in major and minor releases along with Disaster Recovery activity.
• Participate in identifying, designing, and building application improvements.

• Guidewire Certified to a minimum of Guidewire Specialist Configuration or Integration Developer 5 or more years' experience in Guidewire Billing Center Engineering role.
• Strong…