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 DescriptionCore Engineering & Platforms (CEP) provides foundational (Core) capabilities, applying a disciplined Engineering first mindset, and advancing scalable, reusable Platforms across the ecosystem This role ensures critical priorities do not operate in silos, acting as the connective tissue, bringing cohesion across CEP by connecting work, signals, and outcomes across a wide set of product domains without introducing additional friction. Streamlining how CEP engages customers across products and services while cultivating strategic vendor partnerships that span multiple technology domains.

The role elevates how CEP communicates its strategy and impact-curating clear, enterprise-relevant narratives for topics such as OKR progress, Operational Risk and Return Committee, technology execution review and board-level discussions that reflect plan of intent, progress to outcomes, and value delivered.

Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities Lead coordinated planning and execution at scale - Lead Planning & Integration across CEP in environments with a high number of distributed product teams, partnering with digital products teams to ensure backlogs are sequenced when needed and consumable across domains (e.g., infrastructure as code transformation or large-scale efforts like large vendor exit requiring coordinated movement across infrastructure, platforms, and product teams). Accelerating delivery on critical outcomes.

Strengthen product partnership and customer signal curation - Partner with Digital Product Managers to support how the voice of the customer is captured, shaped, and reflected in CEP priorities-particularly in the absence of a business architect construct. Streamline engagement to reduce repeated asks and fragmented input across initiatives.

Elevate workforce planning and future readiness - Align workforce planning and capability development by aligning future skill needs and organizational capacity to expected demand, reducing reactive hiring and improving long-term scalability. Influencer stewardship, specialized onboarding bootcamps/spark zones for infra.

Align strategic vendor engagement to enterprise priorities - Support engagement and alignment with key strategic external partners against ATS priorities, ensuring clarity of expectations and value delivery.

Shapes a clear consistent strategic narrative that connects directly to enterprise value - Curate clear, consistent storytelling of CEP strategy, progress, and impact across OKR tracking, ORCC, and board-level materials-ensuring alignment between what is happening and how it is communicated externally.

Supervisory ResponsibilitiesThis job has supervisory duties. Education and Experience Bachelor's degree is preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.10+ years of progressive experience leading strategic initiatives within complex technology-driven organizations, with expertise in industries undergoing large-scale digital transformation, such as financial services, insurance, technology, consulting, or other highly regulated environments.

Enterprise Strategic Planning & Execution:

Demonstrated ability to develop and operationalize enterprise technology strategies, translating complex business objectives into actionable plans that drive measurable organizational outcomes.

Executive Influence & Organizational Leadership:

Proven success in building alignment and influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in complex environments, driving decisions and results without direct authority.

Technology & Product Partnership Experience:

Strong understanding of technology and product operating models, with experience partnering across engineering, product, and business teams to prioritize initiatives and deliver strategic value.

Strategic Storytelling & Communications:

Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling narratives and executive communications that inform decision-making and inspire organizational alignment.

Value Creation of Role/Why Now for the roleCreates a single point of strategic integration across core engineering platforms.

Connects executive priorities to delivery realities across complex environments.

Reduces fragmentation, duplication, and competing asks across teams.

Improves speed of execution by aligning dependencies, decisions, sequencing, and stakeholder engagement.

Strengthens confidence that critical outcomes are being actively steered.

As CEP continues to scale across distributed product domains, this role brings cohesion to how we work across product teams, sequence backlogs that impact on our customers, and reduce duplication across efforts. It also elevates how we capture customer needs and consistently represent CEP strategy and impact across conversations such as OKR Reviews, ORCC, and board-level discussions.

Skills and CapabilitiesPeople Leadership & Talent Development:

Track record of building, developing, and leading high-performing large organizations; establishes clear decision rights, accountability, and operating cadence while developing future leaders and succession pipelines.

Operational Expertise:

Brings strong operational expertise, with a proven ability to optimize processes, drive execution against strategic outcomes, and deliver consistent, high-quality results across complex environments.

Strategic Thinking & Innovation:

Demonstrates strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex business challenges, identify innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Applies forward-looking insights and analytical rigor to optimize processes, enhance performance, and support long-term organizational objectives.

Business Acumen & Analytical Rigor:

Advanced business acumen with strong analytical skills; uses data, insights, and technology fluency to inform decisions and foster a culture of disciplined execution.

Innovation & Process Orientation:

Natural process innovator with strong learning agility and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Influence:

Proven capability to successfully influence decision-makers and collaborators at all levels - upward, downward, and laterally. Able to build alignment, negotiate effectively, and drive outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.

Change Leadership:

Proven ability to lead large, multi-location teams through significant changes, including business transformations, systems implementations, and organizational integrations.

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Résumé du posteL'équipe Ingénierie de base et plateformes (Core Engineering & Platforms - CEP) fournit des capacités fondamentales (Core) en appliquant une approche axée d'abord sur l'ingénierie et en faisant progresser des plateformes évolutives et réutilisables à l'échelle de l'écosystème.

Ce poste veille à ce que les priorités critiques ne fonctionnent pas en vase clos. Il agit comme un vecteur d'intégration en assurant la cohésion au sein de CEP grce à la connexion des travaux, des signaux et des résultats entre de multiples domaines de produits, sans ajouter de complexité ou de friction supplémentaire.

Le titulaire contribue à simplifier les interactions entre CEP et ses clients à travers les différents produits et services, tout en développant des partenariats stratégiques avec des fournisseurs couvrant plusieurs domaines technologiques.

Le rôle vise également à rehausser la façon dont CEP communique sa stratégie et son impact en élaborant des récits clairs et pertinents à l'échelle de l'entreprise pour des sujets tels que le suivi des OKR, le Comité du risque opérationnel et du rendement (ORRC), les revues d'exécution technologique et les présentations au conseil d'administration, démontrant les intentions stratégiques, les progrès réalisés et la valeur générée.

Description du posteResponsabilités principalesDiriger la planification et l'exécution coordonnées à grande échelleDiriger les activités de planification et d'intégration au sein de CEP dans un environnement composé d'un grand nombre d'équipes produits distribuées.

Collaborer avec les équipes de produits numériques afin de s'assurer que les carnets de produits (backlogs) sont priorisés et séquencés lorsque nécessaire et qu'ils sont exploitables entre les différents domaines.

Soutenir des initiatives complexes telles que les transformations d'infrastructure en tant que code (Infrastructure as Code) ou le retrait d'un fournisseur majeur nécessitant une coordination entre les équipes d'infrastructure, de plateformes et de produits.

Accélérer la réalisation des résultats stratégiques prioritaires.

Renforcer les partenariats produits et la collecte des besoins clientsCollaborer avec les gestionnaires de produits numériques afin d'assurer que la voix du client soit recueillie, structurée et reflétée dans les priorités de CEP.Jouer un rôle particulièrement important en l'absence d'une fonction d'architecte d'affaires.

Simplifier les mécanismes de consultation afin de réduire les demandes répétées et les contributions fragmentées dans les différentes initiatives.

Améliorer la planification de la main-d'œuvre et la préparation de l'avenirHarmoniser la planification des effectifs et le développement des capacités organisationnelles en fonction des besoins futurs en compétences.

Réduire le recours à l'embauche réactive et améliorer l'évolutivité à long terme.

Soutenir les initiatives de développement des influenceurs internes, les programmes d'intégration spécialisés (\