Digital Product Manager - Kafka
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
About Allstate:
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs.
Role Overview:
The Product Management (Technical) Expert is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate's growing product portfolio. We are seeking an experienced Digital Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, governance, and adoption of our enterprise Confluent Kafka Event Streaming Platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the enterprise Confluent Kafka platform.
- Partner with business stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, data platform teams, and security organizations to prioritize platform capabilities and enhancements.
- Drive adoption of event-driven architecture and streaming technologies across the enterprise.
- Manage product backlogs, prioritization, feature planning, and release management activities.
- Establish governance standards for topic management, schema evolution, data retention, security, and platform onboarding.
- Lead platform modernization initiatives involving cloud-native streaming, real-time analytics, AI/ML integration, and data sharing capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform scalability, resiliency, observability, performance, and self-service capabilities.
- Define and track key product metrics including platform adoption, producer/consumer growth, throughput, platform health, and customer satisfaction.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 12+ years of experience in Product Management, Data Platforms, Middleware, Integration Technologies, or Event Streaming solutions.
- Strong experience with Confluent Kafka and enterprise event streaming platforms.
- Proven experience managing platform products and driving enterprise-wide technology adoption.
- Deep understanding of event-driven architecture, publish-subscribe patterns, stream processing, and real-time data integration.
- Experience working with Agile product management frameworks and roadmap planning.
- Strong understanding of Kafka ecosystem components including Kafka Brokers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Control Center, ksqlDB, and Stream Processing.
- Experience defining platform governance, security, compliance, and operational standards.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with observability platforms including Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.
Leadership & Soft Skills:
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive strategic initiatives.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to balance business priorities and technical requirements.
- Experience leading large-scale platform transformation programs.
- Strong facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Skills
Product Management, Confluent Kafka, Data Integration, Product Strategy