Sitecore Engineer, Lead Consultant - Remote

Allstate•McCullom Lake, IL

3d•Remote

About The Position

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. Job Description The Sitecore Engineer works to develop customizations and websites on the Sitecore CMS platform and contributes to the maintenance of the Sitecore CMS platform. The Sitecore Engineer is also aware of Sitecore feature roadmaps and understands how to navigate support processes and developer groups to gain insight and influence future direction.

Requirements

5 or more years of experience developing and maintaining customizations and websites on the Sitecore CMS platform (Required)

Nice To Haves

1 or more years of experience developing and maintaining customizations and websites utilizing Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) for Headless Sites on Sitecore 10.x (Preferred)
1 or more years of experience developing and maintaining React-based clients for Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) for Headless Sites on Sitecore 10.x (Preferred)

Responsibilities

Develop overall product planning by contributing to/creating stories for complex features in areas of responsibility, including guiding the story development for other team members who may be learning
Organize, lead and finalize feature review sessions for complex business issues/requirements and document resulting decisions; provide coaching to newer team members on their features and delivery
Create the functional design, leveraging moderate technical skills, to address complex business processes or issues or to address the requirements of a set of product features
Configure or develop within the Sitecore CMS; review and verify operation of new vendor release features. Leverage Sitecore defect resolution procedures and support tools to resolve issues.
Engage in pair-programming and Test-Driven Development full time to develop websites based on the Sitecore CMS utilizing Sitecore Experience Accelerator for Headless sites.
Provide training for other team members and users; assist in developing team bench strength
Use knowledge of integrated requirements to evaluate proposed software products in line with strategic corporate and vendor direction
Support the planning, conduct, and review of module and integration testing for all but the most complex projects
Manage the issues and blockers for assigned features and product stories
In partnership with the business groups and technical teams, provide knowledge and support for resolving technology issues in multiple areas of the business; acknowledged as a subject matter expert in multiple processes and applications