Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant

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

Position : Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant (Northbrook, Illinois). Position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere in the United States.

Duties : Lead efforts of medium to high complexity and track delivery of Big Data platforms to make decisions, including the development and recommendation of new Big Data systems for analyzing data. Perform coding and development of advanced analytics solutions to make / optimize business decisions and processes. Integrate new tools with existing and emerging Big Data hardware and software to improve descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Contribute to the structured and unstructured Big Data / Data Science tools. Partner with peers to ensure holistic Big Data solutions for data science community and analytics users. Identify new areas of data, research and Big Data technology that can solve business problems. Utilize effective project planning techniques to break down complex projects into tasks, manage scope of projects, and ensure deadlines are kept. Leverage, contribute to, and use Big Data best practices / lessons learned to develop technical solutions used for descriptive analytics, ETL, predictive modeling and prescriptive "real time decisions" analytics. Serve as an expert and technical leader on the effectiveness of Big Data systems to solve their business problems. Assist in the recruitment, selection, mentorship and development of other team members.

Requirements :

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) & five (5) years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant or related role developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.
• Or, alternatively, a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and seven (7) years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant or related role developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.

Specific skills / other requirements - Experience must include :

Using Big data technologies Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, Spark, Hive, and Kafka to process high volume of structured and semi-structured data;

Working with containerized technologies Docker and Kubernetes; and

Coding and developing prototypes in Python, Java, and SQL languages and using Maven and Jenkins build tools.

Skills

Apache Kafka, Big Data Technologies, Docker (Software), Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hadoop YARN, Java, Jenkins (Software), Kubernetes, Maven, Python (Programming Language), Structured Query Language (SQL)

Compensation

Position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere in the United States.

To apply, submit resume to Allstate Insurance Company, https : / / www.allstate.jobs / job-search-results / Ref Position # : R23413

Salary : $160,555.00 / year

Requisition number : R23413

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

For jobs in San Francisco, please click " here " for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

For jobs in Los Angeles, please click " here " for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

To view the "EEO Know Your Rights" poster click " here ". This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

To view the FMLA poster, click " here ". This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.

It is the Company's policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee's ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.