Salary
💰 $141,800 - $219,200 per year
About the role
- Establishes technical strategy for AOR in partnership with Principal Digital Product Manager and Principal Platform Consultant
- Serves as the anchor of 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
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
- Infuses a strong bias for action and speed to market on a consistent basis
- Lifts impediments and distractions
- Influences backlogs outside of their applicable AOR in support of their digital products’ priorities
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
- Owns and drives company priorities needing or expecting technical delivery across AORs
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
- Drives delivery acceleration through reuse of capabilities and smarter, simpler ways to achieve outcomes
- Owns decision to technical approach including deviations from the enterprise standards where needed, but leverages refactoring to align to patterns and standards
- Owns upgrading engineering standards and talent in partnership with other Principal Engineers
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
- Leads, creates, and executes a strong succession plan for Lead and Managing Engineers
Requirements
- 10+ years of Product Management experience (preferred).
- 5+ years in Technical Product Strategy or Product Architecture(preferred).
- 3+ years managing teams of 3–5 direct reports within organizations of 50+ engineers (preferred).
- Proven ability to coach Lead and Managing Engineers, including succession planning.
- Demonstrated success partnering with C-suite and senior executives.
- Experience leading multiple operating units or AORs with enterprise-wide technology strategies.
- Strong decision-making skills in technical approaches; able to manage deviations from enterprise standards and drive refactoring initiatives.
- Background in architecting or leading SaaS platform development and commercialization.
- Hands-on leadership in CI/CD, test-driven development, and paired programming.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for innovation and growth.
- The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
- Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.