Principal Strategic Planning & Integration- Hybrid

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

Core Engineering & Platforms (CEP) provides foundational (Core) capabilities applying a disciplined Engineering first mindset and advancing scalable reusable Platforms across the ecosystem This role ensures critical priorities do not operate in silos acting as the connective tissue bringing cohesion across CEP by connecting work signals and outcomes across a wide set of product domains without introducing additional friction.


Streamlining how CEP engages customers across products and services while cultivating strategic vendor partnerships that span multiple technology domains.


The role elevates how CEP communicates its strategy and impactcurating clear enterprise-relevant narratives for topics such as OKR progress Operational Risk and Return Committee technology execution review and board-level discussions that reflect plan of intent progress to outcomes and value delivered.

Key responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities Lead coordinated planning and execution at scale - Lead Planning & Integration across CEP in environments with a high number of distributed product teams partnering with digital products teams to ensure backlogs are sequenced when needed and consumable across domains (e.g. infrastructure as code transformation or large-scale efforts like large vendor exit requiring coordinated movement across infrastructure platforms and product teams). Accelerating delivery on critical outcomes.
• Strengthen product partnership and customer signal curation - Partner with Digital Product Managers to support how the voice of the customer is captured shaped and reflected in CEP prioritiesparticularly in the absence of a business architect construct. Streamline engagement to reduce repeated asks and fragmented input across initiatives.
• Elevate workforce planning and future readiness - Align workforce planning and capability development by aligning future skill needs and organizational capacity to expected demand reducing reactive hiring and improving long-term scalability. Influencer stewardship specialized onboarding bootcamps/spark zones for infra.
• Align strategic vendor engagement to enterprise priorities - Support engagement and alignment with key strategic external partners against ATS priorities ensuring clarity of expectations and value delivery.
• Shapes a clear consistent strategic narrative that connects directly to enterprise value - Curate clear consistent storytelling of CEP strategy progress and impact across OKR tracking ORCC and board-level materialsensuring alignment between what is happening and how it is communicated externally.

Essential Skills:

• 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 of progressive experience leading strategic initiatives within complex technology driven organisations
• A minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience developing and implementing enterprise technology digital transformation business strategy or operating model roadmaps.
• A minimum of 5 years experience leading teams of managers and/or individual contributors.
• Experience working directly with technology product engineering architecture or business leadership teams to prioritise roadmaps allocate resources govern portfolios and deliver strategic initiatives
• Evidence of delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic planning or transformation initiatives
• Experience leading large scale organisational change or transformation programs.

Desirable Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Business Technology Engineering Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience within financial services insurance consulting technology or other regulated industries

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job has supervisory duties.

Posting date: Sunday 23rd August 2026 (11.59pm)

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Skills

Business Business Process Change Management Business Strategies Consulting Digital Transformation Enterprise Technologies Storytelling Strategic Planning

Why 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.