Head of Developer Experience & AI Tools

Allstate Insurance

Illinois

On-site

USD 199,000 - 274,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Allstate Insurance seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the Developer Experience organization, shaping technical strategy and adoption of tools, platforms, and capabilities used to build, test, deploy, secure, and operate software. This hands-on leader partners with engineering teams to improve productivity and deliver scalable, secure solutions that drive business outcomes.

The Director role emphasizes culture and travel to local offices, championing AI-assisted development and modern engineering

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
12+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering organizations, platform engineering teams, or developer experience functions.
Hands-on experience building software and working directly with developer platforms, automation tools, and cloud-native technologies.
Experience leveraging GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted engineering tools, large language models, and emerging agentic development capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the vision, technical strategy, and execution of Allstate's Developer Experience program, ensuring engineers have access to modern, secure, and efficient development tools and platforms.
Serve as a trusted advocate for the engineering community by gathering feedback and driving improvements to reduce friction and increase productivity.
Remain actively engaged in software engineering practices, contributing to technical discussions, prototypes, automation initiatives, and platform improvements.
Evaluate, validate, and govern developer tools, plugins, frameworks, and platform capabilities for security, reliability, and scalability.
Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development and emerging agentic capabilities.
Partner with engineering leaders, architects, platform teams, and product stakeholders to create a seamless development experience.
Drive innovation through experiments, proof-of-concepts, and assessments of emerging technologies.
Establish metrics and KPIs focused on developer productivity, platform adoption, engineering satisfaction, and operational excellence.
Build and lead high-performing teams while fostering technical excellence, learning, and customer-centric thinking.
Influence enterprise-wide engineering standards and technology decisions across the SDLC.
Lead globally distributed teams to deliver modern engineering capabilities with speed, quality, security, and reliability.