Digital Product Manager - Mainframe (hybrid or remote) in Reading

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.

Your role in the team

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.
The Mainframe DPM will assist with 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

• Provide input on decomposing complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog for the Product Team.
• Assist with managing the product backlog, contribute towards creating an effective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.
• Contribute towards creating the product strategy for one or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.
• Authors, tests, and accepts stories.
• Represent the “voice of the customer”; invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs and habits.
• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.
• Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to provide recommendations on decisions about product strategy.
• Define and manage metrics to measure the success of your efforts and to inform the overall product strategy.

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 3 years’ experience as a Digital Product Manager
• 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
• Previous experience of breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices and effectively communicating innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams.
• Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization.

Desirable Criteria

• 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 Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Closing Date Tuesday the 4th of November 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.

Why join us?

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.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.