Product Owner (hybrid or remote)

• About Us

   

  The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

   

  You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

   

  Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight). Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

   

  Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance. 

   

   

  Location

   

   

  Belfast/ Derry-Londonderry/ Strabane/ Remote, GB

   

   

  Your role in the team

   

  We are excited to announce the opportunity to join the Allstate Canada Group Integrations Enablement Team within Allstate Canada (ACG) whose vision is to improve, simplify and modernize ACG integrations.

  We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Product Owner to play a key role within this global team which will comprise members from Allstate Northern Ireland, Allstate Canada Group and Allstate India.

   

   

  Responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

   

  • Understanding and managing the team vision, goals and objectives
  • Prioritizing and managing backlog items
  • Creation and refinement of the Product Vision and KPIs
  • Identifying and shaping Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Communicating sprint goals to the team
  • Maintaining a holistic product view helping to keep the scrum team focused on the Product Vision and KPIs
  • Developing Scrum requirements in collaboration with the scrum team using the most appropriate method and style
  • Critically reviewing all requests to determine viability, alternatives, and value to the customer.
  • Analyzing tradeoffs between usability and technical viability
  • Actively participating in the definition, sizing and estimation of epics, stories and tasks obtaining requirements from stakeholders at all levels and writing epics and stories to detail these requirements
  • Defining backlog items using most appropriate style and content to right level of detail
  • Story writing – adding details, UX, acceptance criteria and refining stories into suitably sized independent work items
  • Collaborating with the Scrum Master and other teams to deliver high quality releases, pushing stories to meet the definition of done
  • Managing Change
  • Reviewing and accepting work based on story requirements and the definition of done
  • Demoing deliverables to stakeholders at all levels
  • Sharing responsibility for performing exploratory and end-to-end testing
  • Sharing knowledge for maintaining functional testing scripts

   

   

  So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

   

  • All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK'
  • At minimum 4 years’ experience in a technical role including a minimum of 1 years’ previous experience in a product owner/manager OR Business/System Analyst OR Technical Leadership focused role

   

  The successful candidate must also demonstrate competency in:

   

  • Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal & written
  • Be a self-starter who can work unsupervised
  • Ability to work well in a distributed team environment

   

   

  We also have some desirable criteria

   

   

  • Experience with Agile frameworks for example Scrum and PI Planning
  • An understanding of Integrations systems including SpringBoot APIs, Kafka and Talend
  • Experience in coaching, mentoring and guiding team members

   

   

  What we offer

   

  As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

   

  Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

   

  We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

   

  We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

   

   

  Apply Here: https://bit.ly/3L7tHuj 

   

   

  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.

   

   

  The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 6th May 2022