Azure Product Manager (Cloud)
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 21, 2019
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- Category
- IT , Executive / Management
- 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
Think Technology- Think Allstate
We build solutions that touch 16 million customers on a daily basis.
You will work alongside people as passionate as you, focused on delivering the best possible user experiences.
You will work in a highly collaborative environment primed to adapt to an ever-changing landscape and which places technology solutions at its core.
You will thrive, you will think differently, you will challenge convention and have the freedom to act with integrity, intention and speed; you will be at the forefront of developing capabilities in support of Allstates global business model; you will deliver results and you will leave things better than you found them.
Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures (ATSV) team is embarking on a journey to move Application computing to leverage various Cloud provider services. As a result, our Cloud Engineering, Design & Security Team are setting up a Cloud Data Center.
CEDS is responsible for establishing the design & reference architecture for workloads on Private & Public Cloud. This includes incubating new application patterns, evolving existing, and proving their functionality and ability to scale through proof of concepts.
As an Azure Product Manager, you will contribute by helping prioritize the backlog, provide input into essential services priority based on feedback from the customer which will all feed into Azure cloud roadmap and strategy that you will own and manage.
Allstate is looking for a Cloud Product Manager to drive an Agile Cloud Engineering team focused on developing products for Allstates both internal and external customers. Our engineers code all day, every day, on a cloud platform, in a pairing environment, unhindered by meetings and emails.
With your Product Mindset you will be the key focal point of your product bringing customers needs back to the team to build out your products strategy and implement it.
You will be creating Epics and Stories based on customer feedback and problem statements and will know the definition of done.
You will then bring these Epics back to the team where you and the Product Owner will work together towards breaking them out into manageable tasks and prioritize them for implementation and delivery.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include (but aren't limited to):
- Establish, constantly improve, and execute product development and delivery (with quality, stability, and financial management) while maintaining a highly engaged, energized, and efficient team of 7-10 engineers, designers, and analysts.
- Assist in driving culture change becoming a customer-centric delivery team (business and technology; 24/7 available website).
- Drive and maintain a product roadmap; manage and prioritize Technical Debt; strike a balance between delivering features and technical health.
- Manage the relationship with business/product stakeholders; collaborate closely with the Product Owner to understand the voice of the customer.
- Promote a one team (business and technology) mentality while distributed across multiple physical locations.
- Align and deliver upon the defined product value (KPIs).
Job Qualifications
Ideal person:
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Teamwork, the ability to work with both local and remote team members.
- Demonstrate an ability to bridge technology knowledge gaps between IT staff and corporate staff such as Legal, Compliance and Audit organizations.
- Show how you are passionate about software engineering.
- Demonstrate measuring success by delivering working software and end user satisfaction.
- Show an understanding of the culture changes needed when changing focus from technical platforms to customer needs.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of cloud services, deployment models, and distributed systems.
- Essential Criteria
- 5+ years experience in fast-paced organization performing as a Product Manager/Product Owner/Engineering Manager, with software development background
- Understanding of an Azure and/or AWS Cloud Data Center
- A high-energy, expert communicator to both technical and non-technical team members, brimming with positive, proactive energy and dynamic leadership skills with ability to motivate teams
- Ability to act as a data-driven decision maker who blends sound business judgment with strong analytical thinking
Desirable Criteria
- Understanding of an AWS and/or Azure Cloud Data Centre
- Previous infrastructure and/or network experience
- Experience bringing customer problem statements back to the Cloud Engineering team for Epic and Story creation
- AWS and/or Azure Certifications
- Experience managing backlog and building reports and views using Jira or with a similar agile management tool
Travel Requirements
- 1 2 trips to Northbrook, IL anticipated annually
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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Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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