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
This role sits within Allstate Cyber Operations & Platforms as part of a set of Digital Product Teams responsible for building and operating a cohesive, scalable Security Operations platform ecosystem. This ecosystem spans:The Platform Consultant defines and drives architecture patterns, integration standards, and ecosystem strategy across AI platforms, security data, and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as a coherent, reusable, and governed platform ecosystem, enabling safe, scalable adoption through well-defined “paved roads.”
You will translate operational intent into enterprise-scale platform design, ensuring interoperability between AI systems, data platforms, and tooling while minimizing fragmentation and maximizing reuse.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Standards
Define architecture, design patterns, and integration standards across AI, data, and tooling.
Establish APIs, data models, security controls, and observability requirements.
Data & AI Enablement
Ensure high-quality, structured data for AI (lineage, consistency, readiness).
Set standards for safe AI use (explainability, auditability, controlled actions).
Tooling & Integration
Design unified integration across tools and platforms.
Ensure tools produce consistent, high-quality, AI-ready data.
Paved Roads & Adoption
Build scalable, reusable solutions as the default (“paved roads”).
Drive standardization, reduce duplication, and guide adoption.
Strategy & Decision-Making
Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and governance-driven.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner across teams (ACP, SD&O, T&P) for platform alignment.
Influence teams to drive simplification, reuse, and consistency.
Essential Criteria
A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms to include:-
Object-oriented (Java & Javascript required and at least one other language)
Procedural / systems (e.g. Go, Rust, C)
Functional (e.g. F#, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell)
Experience using modern development tools (e.g., IntelliJ or VS Code, Git/GitHub, Spring Boot) and designing robust RESTful APIs
A minimum of 3 years hands on expertise in architecting and delivering large scale distributed systems, such as cloud native microservices on Docker/Kubernetes, deployed on modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent), ensuring scalability, high availability, and performance
Demonstrated success as a high impact technical advisor to multiple engineering teams, with proven ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers in best practices with proven leadership responsibilities.
Expert level knowledge of Agile/XP and DevOps methodologies, including paired programming, test driven development (TDD), and CI/CD automation, with a track record of using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality
Desirable Criteria
Experience with agentic AI platforms, governance, and safe-action design
Familiarity with security operations ecosystems and analyst workflows
Experience with:
Telemetry and observability systems
Data lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks
Canonical data models and analytics-ready datasets
Background in tooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)
Experience aligning AI, data, and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job does not have supervisory duties.
Job Posting End Date: Monday 22nd June 2026 [11.59pm]
Skills
Architectural Patterns, Cloud Platform, DevOps, Ecosystems, Microservices Architecture
Why join us?
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.
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 also invest in you. At Allstate NI, your career growth matters. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:
Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
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