Platform Consultant - Belfast, United Kingdom - Allstate Insurance Company

Allstate Insurance Company

Verified Company

Belfast, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Date Opened:
Mar 22, 2024

Location:
Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB

Company:
Allstate Insurance Company

About Us
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. 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.

Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight).

Join our team and you'll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance.

Location
Northern Ireland

Your role in the team

At Allstate, Data & Intelligent Systems (D&IS) provide technology for Allstate's information strategy, which helps to drive a competitive advantage.

D&IS bring innovation to data management through patented solutions for standardized data exchange, self-service enablement tools, a scaled approach to data cataloging for data discoverability, privacy and compliance-forward enterprise tooling and an internally developed data marketplace.

You will partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager and Digital Product Managers to develop a deep understanding of the current strategic initiative problems and desired vision of the platforms.

You will partner with the Lead Managing Engineers and Managing Engineers to set objectives, priorities, and roadmaps for executing greater engineering excellence.

You will work directly with engineering teams as applicable to identify issues and opportunities for the prioritization of fresh design principles.

You will build trust and influence with other Product Engineers by coding and developing rapid prototypes based on business value opportunities as needed.

You will partner with the broader technology organization to aid the delivery of digital capabilities that create value for consumers and for Allstate, enabling key business outcomes.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Leads with an engineering mindset, leveraging practical coding skills/ability to future proof solutions and achieve intended outcomes
Pair with engineers as needed
Actively participate in incident responses in partnership with Managing Engineer
Facilitating discovery & framing sessions along with other key ceremonies in partnership with Digital Product Managers
Drives design thinking using lean hypothesis frameworks
Orchestrates solutioning across digital products and services
Drives effective root cause analysis and mistake proofing

So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
At minimum 5 years' Full Stack engineering experience using Java

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and:

Experience with testdriven development and writing JUNIT, Integration, Regression, Performance and Load tests

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and:

Expert knowledge in Design and Implementing REST Services, Integration messaging systems like JMS MQ, Kafka etc

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and:

Strong experience and knowledge of backend database integration, JMS, Web Services

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and:

Strong UI skills using one of the major JavaScript frameworks like ReactJS

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and:

Experience in writing SQL queries and stored procedures
Experience of Cloud platforms, such as PCF, AWS
Direct experience with full CI/CD
Background and knowledge of working in an Agile environment

We also have some desirable criteria

ETL experience, specifically with Ab Initio or Python
Experience using Personal Identifiable Information best practices
Good knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, UDP, streaming, routing, latency vs throughput

What we offer

As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you