Allstate
Lead Engineering Manager
Posted on Jul 25 Remote, IL 73 views
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 Lead Engineering 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. Sr. Engineering Managers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Sr. Engineering Manager architects 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Education and Experience:
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Functional Skills:
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Notes:
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.
Skills
Agile Software Development Lifecycle, Customer Centricity, Engineering Mindset, Inclusive Leadership, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Learning Agility, Management of Employees, Managing Engineering Teams, People Performance Management, Relationship Management, Results-Oriented, Role Management
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $134,400.00 - 217,350.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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.®
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Job Description
The Lead Engineering 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. Sr. Engineering Managers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Sr. Engineering Manager architects 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leverage and influence key stakeholders
- Manage teams that are responsible for strategic and critical pieces of product roadmap or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
- Frequently advise others on product and engineering matters.
- Build foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals
- Expert ability to view the organization as a whole
- Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, managing engineer’s other peers, and key stakeholders.
- Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and helps translate user features into viable solution
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with input working in close partnership with the product and engineering managers
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- This job has supervisory duties.
Education and Experience:
- 4-year Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred)
- 10 or more years of experience (Preferred)
- In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.
Functional Skills:
- Advanced ability to influence leadership
- Excellent written/verbal communication and facilitation skills for communicating at all levels; including strong presentation skills with ability to shift narrative to different stakeholders
- Demonstrated business acumen and experience leading multi-functional activities with accountability for budgetary and resource allocation
- Ability to influence, motivate, and manage direct reports, matrix reports, and cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to present key information objectively and collaborate effectively with management
- Ability to remain flexible/change agile, proactive, resourceful and efficient
- Ability to integrate cross-functional issues and balance competing priorities effectively
- Experience with Agile software and test-driven development, as well as the ability to find fulfillment in building innovative products a plus
- Workflow flexibility and strong teamwork skills
- A natural aptitude for teaching and learning from others in a collaborative team environment
#LI-MK1
Notes:
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.
Skills
Agile Software Development Lifecycle, Customer Centricity, Engineering Mindset, Inclusive Leadership, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Learning Agility, Management of Employees, Managing Engineering Teams, People Performance Management, Relationship Management, Results-Oriented, Role Management
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $134,400.00 - 217,350.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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.®
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
