Mainframe Lead Digital Product Manager (sr. Manager) (hybrid)

Lead Digital Product Manager

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.

The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company's strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen. The Mainframe Lead DPM is driving several strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and optimizing Allstate's mainframe systems. This includes enhancing cyber resiliency through safeguarded storage upgrades, immutable backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while also transitioning legacy workloads to more agile and secure platforms. The role is central to exploring next-generation capabilities such as AI, machine learning, and containerization—leveraging technologies like zCX and z/OS 3.1 to enable on-platform intelligence and scalable automation. These efforts support a broader transformation of mainframe hosting into a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that integrates seamlessly with distributed environments and accelerates business value delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap
• Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape
• Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products.
• Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team
• Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog.
• Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work
• Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders
• Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action
• Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product.
• Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE
• Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team

Essential Criteria

• All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Digital Product Manager
• A minimum of 2 year's coaching and leading teams.
• Must have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentals.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling
• Experience of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing
• Demonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams.
• Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization.
• Strong, proven capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices.
• Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions.

Desirable Experience

• Understanding of the system behaviors, how batch and online transactions work, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirements—especially in regulated industries like Insurance or Finance

Supervisory Experience:

This job does have supervisory duties.

Job posting end date: Wednesday the 27th of August 2025

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 NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence—recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility.

We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

We offer:

• A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts

• Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D

• Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth

• A people-first culture with flexible working options

Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.

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.

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