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

We are seeking a skilled Mainframe Developer to manage, maintain, enhance, and support critical mainframe applications. The role includes development, testing, production support, CI/CD deployments, incident management, automation, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will bring strong mainframe technical expertise, ownership across the software development lifecycle, and a willingness to learn and adopt AI-driven solutions.

Primary Skills

• Mainframe, SAS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS

Secondary Skills

• Python, GitHub Copilot, Prompt Engineering. Microsoft Fabric, AI-Assisted Development Tools

Key Responsibilities

1. Application Development & Support

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance mainframe applications.
• Provide production support, troubleshoot incidents, resolve defects, and ensure application reliability and performance.
• Participate in testing, validation, deployments, and post-deployment support.

2. Project Delivery & Collaboration

• Collaborate with business partners, product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver quality solutions.
• Participate in product discussions, assess application impacts, write technical stories, estimate work, and support prioritization.
• Communicate changes, risks, impacts, and dependencies clearly and proactively.
• Work independently and within cross-functional teams with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. 

3. Operational Excellence

• Drive automation and process improvements to reduce manual effort, risk, and cost.
• Support maintenance activities, upgrades, infrastructure changes, disaster recovery testing, and critical production events.
• Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.

4. Software Engineering Practices

• Apply engineering best practices including code reviews, unit testing, secure coding, source code management, CI/CD, and maintainable design.
• Take ownership of solutions from design and development through deployment and production support.
• Continuously refactor and improve codebases for maintainability, performance, and reliability.

5. Business, AI & Innovation Focus

• Understand business processes and ensure technology solutions align with business outcomes.
• Demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and a continuous learning mindset.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, Generative AI, ML, intelligent automation, or AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering, testing, operations, and productivity.

Additional Requirements

• Flexible to support project, deployment, maintenance, production, and disaster recovery activities outside normal working hours when required.
• Demonstrates accountability, ownership, and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions and customer outcomes.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 8-12 Years
  

Shift Timing

• Monday - Friday | 1:00 PM IST - 9:30 PM IST (Allstate India Shift)

Preferred Location

• Bengaluru India (Allstate India) but but ANA/ANI also OK

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

Primary Skills

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Recruiter Info

About Allstate

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.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.