Operations Support - Solutions Engineer - Lead Consultant
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 23, 2019
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- Category
- Operations
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
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.
Job Description
The Solution Engineer uses knowledge of applications and infrastructure to design application environments to meet current and future business needs.
The Solution Engineer-Lead Consultant undertakes medium complexity projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge. The Solution Engineer-Lead Consultant coordinates with architecture, engineering, application teams, and the business on complex projects to determine requirements and ensure system enhancements are successfully implemented and monitored. The Solution Engineer-Lead Consultant has broad infrastructure knowledge and deep application knowledge.
You Will:
- Collaborate with various architecture and engineering teams to gather requirements and provide solutions that meet performance, availability, capacity and resiliency targets for moderately complex systems.
- Create the high-level technical design for one or more complex projects and difficult maintenance efforts by analyzing and tracing designs to requirements (business and functional) and systems architecture
- Act as the bridge between the application and optimization teams. Lead design reviews, and perform analysis for one or more applications
- Identify systems and technical constraints, potential technology risks, and document possible mitigation strategies for high complexity projects
- Consult on the application of reference architecture and strategic direction of enterprise technology.
Key Responsibilities
- May guide the design deliverables of Systems Analysts and Developers
- Consults with Business Analysts to write functional design for high complexity projects
- Manages design reviews, application design impacts between concurrent releases, and technical walkthroughs
- Understands the technical details, integration, and functions of multiple applications, hardware, and/or software within a team. Executes and enforces best practices. May be responsible to identify and design for non-functional requirements
- Provides technical input and act as point-of-contact during architectural assessments for area applications
- Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Partner with Business Analysts and possibly clients to improve business requirements and business process flows. Evaluates Proof of Concepts (POCs)
- Implements technical process improvements. Manages technical process and application process flows
- Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Maintains understanding of software industry and provide direction for future solutions
- Maintain awareness of current state application environments and business drivers.
- Influence clients and partners to prioritize for enterprise benefit and risk reduction. Adopt technology solutions that leverage existing patterns, practices, roadmaps and Architecture direction.
- Make recommendations for changes to the application environments or architecture
- Provide technical and professional leadership and coach more junior level Solution Engineers.
- Ensure the sharing of appropriate lessons learned. Participate in industry-related conferences and events.
Job Qualifications
- College Degree with technical study or equivalent experience
- 7+ years technical experience in architecture, design or systems engineering
- 4+ years experience in SDLC (requirements, design, build, test, deploy) or similar; applicable technology certifications
- 2-4 years of systems experience
- Knowledge of technical design and writing required
- Knowledge of Web, database, and integration technologies and languages, such as COBOL, PL/1, DB2, SQL, and IMS
- Deep knowledge of Automation tools and practices (RPA, RDA, Web Service integration, OCR, ML, NLP), Blue Prism experience preferred
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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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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