Allstate - Chicago, IL
posted 3 months ago
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. The Cloud Product Engineer is a full stack engineer who architects and builds the cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. This role will have the primary accountability of owning, developing, implementing, and operating Allstate's Cloud platforms. As a Technology Specialist specializing in Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services/Azure Open AI, you will be a technical solution expert within our AI solution area organization, working with strategic consumers on establishing their AI Strategy and prioritizing use cases that drive business value with Azure AI Services & Generative AI. In this position, you will participate in strategic technical consumer engagements that will require you to deliver architectural design sessions, pilots/POCs leveraging Azure AI Services and Azure OpenAI Services. You will serve as a thought leader in advocating technology solutions and engineering practices that define the product engineering space. Your responsibilities will include evaluating new products, software, and projects, and leading the effort to adapt these technologies into the platform. You will provide in-depth AI expertise to support the technical relationship with our consumers, including product and solution briefings, creating demos, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting consumer adoption to Azure AI Services. You will recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Azure AI. As a trusted advisor to our consumers, you will help them understand and incorporate AI accelerators into their overall cloud strategy by recommending migration paths, integration strategies, and application architecture that incorporate Azure Studio/AI Search/Azure Open AI. You will demonstrate how Azure AI is differentiated, highlighting the power by working with consumers on POCs, demonstrating features, optimizing AI Solution performance, profiling, and benchmarking. Additionally, you will build repeatable assets to enable other consumers and internal teams, influence Azure AI strategy by leveraging AI Studio, Cognitive Services, Search, and Azure Open AI models, and address security and intellectual property, performance, scalability, and consumer readiness. You will engage in conversations with consumers and collaborate with account and partner teams to drive and qualify new opportunities, understand key technical objections, and resolve technical blockers. Representing developers and key consumers in the product design and lifecycle process, you will champion engineering practices and help teams define and set up frameworks using Terraform and automation. You will also coach junior team members and own, manage, and maintain the high availability designs and engineering for the different platforms across the company. This role requires the ability to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries, facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets. Maintaining and enhancing the existing Terraform codebase and identifying creative solutions for technical support issues will also be part of your responsibilities. Effective communication across groups of diverse backgrounds and the ability to present ideas and solutions are essential for success in this role.