Platform Consultant Expert (Hybrid)
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Job Summary
At Allstate great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from lifes 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:Agentic Cyber Platforms (ACP): Operationalizing AI as a core cyber capability through shared platforms orchestration patterns and governance-by-design.
Security Data & Observability (SD&O): Engineering and managing the Security Operations Data Plane enabling high-fidelity telemetry analytics and AI-ready data.
Tooling & Platform (T&P): Ensuring security tooling is integrated governed and aligned as part of a unified platform rather than disconnected solutions.
Together these capabilities enable secure scalable and intelligence-driven cyber operations by design.
The Platform Consultant defines and drivesarchitecture patterns integration standards and ecosystem strategyacross AI platforms security data and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as acoherent reusable and governed platform ecosystem enabling safe scalable adoption through well-defined paved roads.
You will translate operational intent intoenterprise-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 andguideadoption.
Strategy & Decision-Making
Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.
Ensure solutions are scalable secure andgovernance-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
- All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms toinclude:-
Object-oriented (Java &Javascriptand 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 onexpertisein 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 witha track recordof using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality
Desirable Criteria
Experience withagentic AI platforms governance and safe-action design
Familiarity withsecurity 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 intooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)
Experience aligningAI data and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job does not have supervisory duties.
Job Posting End Date: Sunday 16th August 2026 11.59pm
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Architectural Patterns Cloud Platform DevOps Ecosystems Microservices ArchitectureWhy join us
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstates European Digital Centre of Excellence a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. Were recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100 employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards and weve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.
Were 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. Youll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths certifications and mentoring opportunities. Whether youre 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:
- Corporate bonus scheme
- Pension scheme
- Annual performance-related pay reviews
- Life assurance and income protection
- Flexible working options
- Hybrid working
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym membership
- Two paid volunteering days each year
- Cycle to work scheme
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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About Company
The Allstate Corporation is the largest publicly held personal lines property and casualty insurer in America. Allstate was founded in 1931 and became a publicly traded company in 1993. Allstate offers car insurance, home, property, condo and renters insurance, plus insurance for rec ... View more
