Claims Digital Business Data Architect (Remote)

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.

 

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

 

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for aiding in or leading the development and implementation of complex consulting projects. Represents the business area in strategic planning activities and provides recommendations based on best practice benchmarking, data analysis and forecasting. Consults with clients to identify current and future business needs of large scale complex end-to-end processes. Provides oversight for research, design, build, testing, deployment, analysis, administering, and maintaining environments.

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Demonstrates understanding of business unit and/or industry systems, processes and requirements
• Represents the business area in strategic planning activities with senior level executives.
• Understands departmental cost structure and touch points to other areas. Initiates implementation of solutions that positively impact profitability and operational efficiencies.
• Gathers and analyzes business and stakeholder requirements. Collects and analyzes process data to initiate, develop and recommend business practices and procedures.
• Applies best practices when summarizing, consolidating, and presenting findings and recommendations to senior leaders and officers.
• May direct the work of other staff members or lead a virtual cross functional team.
• Manage efforts to implement hardware and software technology components by analyzing the current system environment using technical tools and utilities, performing complex product customization, and developing implementation and verification procedures to ensure successful installation of systems hardware/software.
• Collaborates with service engineers, technology, architects, vendors, and business clients to ensure that the modified hardware and software technology components interact appropriately.
• Ensures successful completion of projects by supporting organizational objectives and anticipating future impacts and needs for adaptations and changes in end-to-end processes at a global or enterprise level.
• Initiates and supports business optimization efforts to enable effective and efficient delivery of valued services.

Functional Skills:

 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office- Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Demonstrates mastery of facilitation in challenging situations of a difficult nature.
• Ability to influence others
• Experienced internal consultant, both in terms of client relationships as well as staff interaction and acts as a mentor to others.
• Involves stakeholders from other functional areas in problem resolution, influencing others outside of area of responsibility to act.
• Provides employees with a line of sight between their work and these corporate goals and strategy
• Mastery of communications in practical applications of a difficult nature with the ability to express ideas concisely and in an easily understood manner.
• Adapts management style according to situation and people, fostering a positive and productive environment.

Preferred Technical Skills:

 

• Proficiency in Tableau: Extensive experience creating and managing reports in Tableau, with a deep understanding of Tableau’s functionality, including data connection, data blending, calculations, and dashboard creation
• Data Analysis Skills: Excellent data analysis skills with the ability to ext