Cloud Services Lead Architect - Java & Microservices

Allstate Foundation; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Software Engineer Lead Consultant to architect and design digital products, own production operations, and drive KPI success across distributed systems. You will lead backend development, ensure secure REST APIs, and guide a team in modern cloud environments.

Experience with Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, microservices, CI/CD, TDD, and container orchestration is preferred. The role emphasizes technical leadership, teamwork with product managers, and delivering scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development or technical leadership.
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Participate in inception and iteration planning with product manager.
• Participate in daily standups across teams.
• Coach the team in paired programming and test-driven development.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
• Provide system design and architecture leadership for team decisions.
• Monitor key systems, analyze logs and traces, and respond to outages.

Skills

AWS

Apache Kafka

API Development

Back-End Development

Cloud Platform

Code Reviews

Git

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Unit Testing

Problem Solving

Java

CI/CD

TDD

Education

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Gradle

Artifactory

Job description

Allstate is seeking a Software Engineer Lead Consultant to architect and design digital products, own production operations, and drive KPI success across distributed systems. You will lead backend development, ensure secure REST APIs, and guide a team in modern cloud environments.

Experience with Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, microservices, CI/CD, TDD, and container orchestration is preferred. The role emphasizes technical leadership, teamwork with product managers, and delivering scalable