Mainframe Engineering Manager
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 26, 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.
The Team
This exciting role sits within the Mainframe Engineering Team of the Infrastructure Services organization, specifically within the System Engineering group.
The role of the Mainframe Engineering Team is to provide our business partners with a reliable, resilient, and modern platform to host their critical batch and online systems. This group supports IBM zSystem hardware, z/OS Operating system, GDPS, CICS, MQ, z/OS Connect, RACF Administration and more.
Job Description
Come join our growing Charlotte, NC Mainframe Engineering team as a people and technical leader of one or more of our mainframe technologies. We are looking for a person with people leader experience in any mainframe technologies and will be flexible in developing our mainframe support organization around yours and our other leaders skills and experience.
This position will have delivery and engineering responsibility for one or more Allstate Mainframe Engineering groups. The best candidates will have experience managing several technology towers but strong candidates managing a single tower will have an opportunity to join our team.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Delivery Lead/Owner for a Mainframe Engineering team.
- Responsible for influencing future strategy for the platform technologies via partnerships with our server, security, database and application architecture teams.
- Ensuring platform availability is maintained to the highest possible standard.
- Ensure platform is prepared for next generation, modernized, and digital workloads as Allstate business systems are transformed to meet current and future needs.
- This role is both a delivery and leadership position and will have accountability for multiple activities, such as employee hiring, development, performance management, recognition and succession planning
The ideal person will be able to demonstrate the following competencies:
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, organized, have excellent communication skills and be an IBM Z advocate. We are looking for a strong leader who will engage and inspire a team of globally dispersed staff member and work with, teach and mentor current and new staff members as Allstate builds our next generation of IBM Z support.
All candidates should also be able to demonstrate a high degree of leadership competence through:
- Ability to self-manage and be highly motivated to deliver results
- Be able to facilitate diverse global teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
- Be able to work effectively across organizational boundaries
- Must be able to influence formally and informally
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with other business groups and navigate complex decision making
- Ability to collaborate well with engineers and clients
Essential criteria
- Previous team manager experience
- Strong knowledge of one or more Mainframe technologies
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture & associated operational requirements in a high availability, reliable, and securable environment.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience establishing and building teams to deliver new technology services
- Demonstrable leadership ability, performing all aspects of people management including talent development and performance management
- Experience working in large global organization &/or financial industry
- 5+ years of mainframe infrastructure management experience
- 7+ years people and team management
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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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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