Manager, Platform Engineering (Guidewire)
Location
Markham, ON | Canada
Job description
Who is Allstate:
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. The company is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years and prioritizes supporting employees and fostering an inclusive, welcoming corporate culture. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its "You’re in Good Hands®" promise.
Through our Employee Value Proposition, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.
Role Designation: Hybrid
Benefits to joining Allstate
- 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 reflection day
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Working within the community and giving back!
Job description:
Our team is growing and we are actively looking to hire a motivated, experienced Manager, Platform Engineering to support our ongoing Guidewire Cloud transformation program. Experienced professionals with competency and knowledge in Guidewire implementations are being sought.
Accountabilities:
1. Domain Specific
- Expert in Guidewire with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages,
- algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools)
- Coaches and influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality
- Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members
- Evaluates competencies, skills, and impact of product team engineers
- Coaches for design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools
- Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management in partnership with Product Manager
- Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
2. Strategic Direction
- Assists with settings the strategic direction for the function / span based on business goals and cascades goals and targets to teams.
- Facilitates functional technology strategy discussions with the leadership team and conceptualizes actions / initiatives and builds capabilities.
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the Product Manager
- Reviews team structure and aligns it to deliver on the strategy.
- Improves value creation and introduces new / expanded services as part of the growth strategy.
3. People Management
- Plans and monitors workforce needs and processes for the business area to decide on current and future hiring of direct reports and extended teams.
- Builds engagement by acting on employee feedback.
- Manages team members to accomplish results through effective recruitment, selection, work allocation, goal-setting, performance management, recognition, and employee engagement.
- Plans backups and skill building for critical roles; focuses team members to stay on course for future skills.
- Acts as a coach/mentor to groom the next line of leaders.
4. Systems / Process Innovation
- Encourages outcome-based technology innovation and invention in partnership with stakeholders.
- Replicates enterprise best practices and standards and explores ways to enhance the effectiveness of current systems and processes; oversees corrective actions until closure.
- Partners with stakeholders on the implementation of organizational process improvement initiatives.
- Implements policies and strategies to achieve functional short-term results (1 year or less).
Qualifications:
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineer or equivalent
- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience with Guidewire
- Experience in ensuring ITSM ITIL Practices are followed such as Incident management, Problem Management, Change Management
- 2+ year of experience in leadership roles
- Experience practicing Agile development methodologies.
- Hands-on development proficiency in one of: Java, Gosu, ReactJS, C++, Python or one of these derivatives
- At least 1 full SDLC cycle (inception -> development -> post go live)
- P&C Insurance experience
- Experience with Guidewire enterprise technology implementation
- Guidewire certified (preferably ACE)
Bonus qualification:
- Understand Cloud Technologies and experience in leading Cloud programs
- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum enabler technologies (Jira, Rally, GIT)
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.
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