Software Engineer Associate Manager

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

This position is to handle ther DMS - Document Management System of Allstate Benefits team. The primary work will be to handle delivery of day to day business tasks and Exstream migration to Azure. This role also will need to lead and guide team of Exstream developers

Primary Skills:
• OpenText Exstream Version 16x/23x/24x
• Unix Scripting
• Java – Good to have.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product

• Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders

• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups

• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy

• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behavior and coaching of all lab roles.

• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team

• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products

• Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day to day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities

• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager

• Design and develop forms using OpenText Exstream product in high volume and on-demand applications based on specifications.
• Should have strong knowledge in Data Mapping, Page Design, Output Queues, Flow Tables, and PDF-Pass through, Dialogue application packaging.
• Experience in configuration and customization of Exstream objects at multiple levels like messages, table, and frames.
• Experience in print and assembly rules, bar codes, including adding variable data tags.
• Experience in data-processing and post-composition processing of documents using Exstream.
• Should have worked with formula variables, rules, functions, document, and page triggering rules.
• Coding and implementation support of printing, report preparation and generation using OpenText Exstream.
• Experience working with XML files, and various data files, Report creation.
• Working knowledge on print streams like DLF, Empower, AFP, postscripts.
• Solid design, coding, testing, and debugging skills.
• Experience in Unix Scripting.
• Basic knowledge of Java/.NET/Shell scripting.
• Experience in working on Exstream version upgrade projects is good to have.
• Experience in Insurance domain good to have.

Other considerations

• Support on weekends for deployments and production outages as needed

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 9 to 10 Years

Location--Bangalore/Pune
 

Primary Skills

Shift Time

Shift B (India)

Recruiter Info

Sunita M

maabd@allstate.com

About Allstate

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.