Lead Product Engineer - (Hybrid)

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.

Your role in the team

The Product Engineer Lead architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
• 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
• Provides support for software products in user environments
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices

Essential Skills

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• Minimum 4 years' experience as a Software Engineer.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in Python for scripting, automation, and data transformation.
• Minimum 2 years' experience with PySpark for handling distributed data processing workloads.
• Minimum 1 years' experience with Microsoft PowerBI
• Demonstrable professional experience in SQL.
• Has a working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouses, Pipelines, Notebooks) and experience with (CI/CD pipelines, build/test/deploy automation).

Desirable Skills

• Solid understanding of SRE principles applied to data platforms (pipeline reliability, monitoring, CI/CD, incident response, automation/self-healing).
• GitHub for version control, collaboration, and workflow management.
• Datadog for application health and performance monitoring.
• General database fundamentals and query optimization
• Experience with Java.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Why join us?

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility.

We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

We offer:

• A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts

• Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D

• Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth

• A people-first culture with flexible working options

Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.