Senior Software Engineer

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Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.

Allstate Benefits is a leading provider of voluntary insurance.  We are committed to providing superior products and services with cutting edge technology, exceptional customer service and compassionate claims administration.  With over 40,000 groups in force and insuring more than 3 million employees, we deliver the promise of the Good Hands every day!
 
The Software Engineer's primary responsibility is to liaison with business and IT teams to understand business needs, Allstate's vision, growth plans, long term strategy and create a future looking, cost effective and robust Solution. The Solution needs to be well architected to tie together business requirements with secure, innovative, scalable and high-performing technologies. The solution Architect will guide the strategic solution from ideation to implementation.  The candidate should bring in experience architecting/re-architecting large enterprise systems along with hands on development skills in integration, application development and UI space. The ideal candidate needs to be technology agnostic, forward thinking and have excellent learnability to be able to understand current landscape, system limitations and scale up in key business areas to an expert level. 
 

    Define and Translate end to end Platform Solution Architecture for Transformation working with both Business and Technology teams – Application Design, Integration Services, Security
    Understate, Translate & resolve Business Process and Problems into future state Industry leading Technology Solutions.  
    Drive Transformation Program and communicate technology strategy to leaders and knowledge workers via roadmaps, conceptual diagrams, solution and runway architecure
    Develop reusable patterns, practices, and reference architectures through research and Proof of Concept builds
    Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Information Architects, Application Architects and various delivery groups in finalizing overall solution
    Provide consultation to teams on the tactical application of reference architectures and the strategic direction of enterprise technology
    Using independent research and analysis of industry and technology trends, provide actionable ideas for innovation and business capability development
    Author reference architectures and positions that support the design, deployment and support of complex systems that deliver business functionality
    Verify conformance to architectural patterns, practices and enterprise/departmental reference architecture
    Identify, evaluate and vet technologies for use in the enterprise technology landscape
    Drive change from within IT through communication with teams regarding processes, standards and culture
    Support vendor selection and analysis process by evaluating vendor architecture's fit within the business and IT landscape
 

Education:
College Degree with technical study or equivalent experience

Experience:
    3+ years technical experience in Solution architecture/design Target State Architecture (TSA)
    Experience with Java/J2EE as part of solution design
    Experience or awareness in AWS or Azure cloud environments including Hybrid cloud.
    Experience and knowledge in web and API including security authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
    Experience working with distributed technologies:
1.    Integration and Design Patterns
2.    Messaging interfaces (MQ, JMS)
3.    Business Process Modeling
    Excellent documentation, communication & team building skills.
    Experience in developing applications using full stack.

Preferred:
    Platform Services Application development – Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices
    Full- stack application development – RESTFUL API's, Angular, Node JS, React, SQL/NoSQL DB
    Data & Analytics – ORACLE/SQL DB, NoSQL DB, Apache Spark, Caching services 
    CI/CD Pipeline services for Build and Automation – Jenkins/Maven, JSON templates
    Hybrid Cloud Native Platform Solution – Knowledge of Containerize Framework, PCF, Kubernetes, Public Private Cloud services, AWS/MS Azure/GCP/OpenShift
    Security – Both App to App and IAM, Authentication/Authorization policy and regulations process and procedures, data privacy 
    Domain knowledge: Benefits Insurance Experience
    Insurance Technology and Tools services

The minimum salary for this position is $90,000. The salary offered will be commensurate with experience.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.

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