Product Engineering in Winnipeg

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. 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 You're 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.

Role Designation: Hybrid.

Benefits:

• 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

Overview: 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Accountabilities:

• Take care of the Guidewire BillingCenter 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.

Qualifications:

• Guidewire Certified to a minimum of Guidewire Specialist Configuration or Integration Developer
• 5 or more years' experience in Guidewire BillingCenter Engineering role.
• Strong knowledge with SDLC, Agile and/or other recognized software development and project management methodologies.
• Technical Experience with Guidewire BillingCenter systems.
• Technical Experience with system integrations, Guidewire Gosu, Integration Gateway Apps, Guidewire Upgrades and Guidewire Cloud Ski updates to align with evolving business needs.
• Knowledge in developing custom plug-ins, batches, messaging, and web services.
• Knowledge of Integration Technologies such as Java Spring, REST, React, Kafka.
• Technical understanding of Billing processing and associated data flows.
• Experience in Batch monitoring and setting up alerts using Datadog.
• Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
• Strong development techniques, such as debugging, testing (Unit, Integration and Contract), Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, coding, use of productivity tools (GIT, JIRA, Confluence, TeamCity, Bitbucket etc.).
• Familiarity with revision control systems Git /GitHub.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, SONAR etc.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to learn rapidly.
• Must be able to adapt to a dynamic environment, make quick decisions under pressure.
• Must be proactive, results-oriented, customer-focused, and attentive to details.
• Strong organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Knowledge on using AI tools and co-pilot.
• Test driven development experience.
• Pair programming experience.

Skills:

• Agile Software Development
• Billing Process
• CI/CD
• Datadog
• Guidewire BillingCenter
• Guidewire Cloud
• Project Management
• Revision Control Systems (RCS)
• System Configuration
• System Integration

Compensation: Expected compensation for this role ranges from $80,900.00 - 129,725.00 annually. Actual salary offered to successful candidates will vary based on their skills and experience.

EEO: Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.