Product Engineering (Guidewire BillingCenter Configuration & Integration)

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. 

Allstate Canada, Financials, have moved to the Allstate Technology Solutions (ATS) model and have an opportunity to support our Transformative Growth plans. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growth area that will help to expand your skill base and give you the opportunity to grow and develop in a new platform.

The successful candidate will help drive the deliverables of the project as well as the harmonization of team needs and capability with delivery requirements and other stakeholders within the delivery ecosystem across multiple functional areas/vendors.

There will also be an opportunity to work closely with the other four Digital Product teams in Financials as a Product family.

• The Product Engineering takes care of the Guidewire BillingCenter by troubleshooting and resolving any degradation of service, application validations and involvement in Major and minor releases along with DR (Disaster Recovery) activity. Will participate in identifying, designing and building of application improvements. 
• The Product Engineering will design and build on product roadmap, production defect fixes, general lifecycle management activities and work closely with peers to ensure the performance, availability, and stability of the application suites.
• Participate in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and lead the team with full enthusiasm.
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
• Conducted analysis and coding for UI and middleware components.
• Implement code refactoring for enhanced reusability and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, testing(unit, Integration, performance)
• Participate in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, quality assurance, and release management
• Serve as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Build, manage the integration of new applications in accordance to Allstate standards and governance

• Guidewire Certified to a minimum of Guidewire Specialist Configuration or Integration Developer
• 5 or more years’ experience in Guidewire BillingCenter Engineering role
• Strong knowledge with SDLC, Agile and/or other recognized software development and project management methodologies
• Technical Experience with Guidewire BillingCenter systems
• Technical Experience with system integrations, Guidewire Gosu, Integration Gateway Apps, Guidewire Upgrades and Guidewire Cloud Ski updates to align with evolving business needs
• Knowledge in developing custom plug-ins, batches, messaging, and web services
• Knowledge of Integration Technologies such as Java Spring, REST, React, Kafka
• Technical understanding of Billing processing and associated data flows
• Experience in Batch monitoring and setting up alerts using Datadog
• Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development
• Strong development techniques, such as debugging, testing (Unit, Integration and Contract), Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, coding, use of productivity tools (GIT, JIRA, Confluence, TeamCity, Bitbucket etc.)
• Familiarity with revision control systems Git /GitHub      
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, SONAR etc.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to learn rapidly
• Must be able to adapt to a dynamic environment, make quick decisions under pressure
• Must be proactive, results-oriented, customer-focused, and attentive to details
• Strong organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively

• Knowledge on using AI tools and co-pilot
• Test driven development experience
• Pair programming experience

Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. 

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This job posting is for a current open role within the organization.