Overview
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, advocating for seat belts, airbags, and graduated driving laws, and establishing industry leadership in pricing sophistication, telematics, device and identity protection.
We are hiring multiple Managing Engineers to join our Cyber Platform Engineering organization within Allstate Cyber Operations & Platforms. This posting represents an opportunity to be considered for one of several engineering leadership roles aligned to a shared mission: building secure, scalable, and operationally mature platform capabilities that strengthen cyber operations.
Focus Areas
- Agentic Cyber Platforms (ACP): Build platform services, orchestration capabilities, and guardrails that enable secure, reliable, and scalable AI adoption across cyber operations.
- Tooling & Platform (T&P): Lead engineering for integrated tooling, shared services, and automation capabilities that improve consistency, interoperability, and workflow efficiency.
- Security Data & Observability (SD&O): Engineer telemetry pipelines, observability controls, and data services that support analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled decision‑making.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, and operation of production‑grade engineering capabilities that support cyber operations at scale.
- Build reliable, secure, and observable services, tools, platforms, or data pipelines aligned to shared engineering standards.
- Own service and platform lifecycle expectations, including reliability, operational readiness, observability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner across product, platform, and engineering stakeholders to shape architecture, integration design, and delivery sequencing.
- Drive platform maturity through automation, reuse, standardization, and strong operational discipline.
- Coach and develop engineers while building high‑performing teams with strong execution and systems thinking.
Essential Skills
- Legal right to work in the UK; Allstate does not provide sponsorship.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or distributed systems delivery.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience leading engineering teams or technical delivery in product‑based environments.
- Experience operating production systems, services, tools, or pipelines with strong expectations around reliability, observability, security, and maintainability.
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, automation, cloud‑native engineering practices, and scalable platform design.
- Experience building reusable services, workflows, platforms, or data capabilities that support multiple teams or operational use cases.
- Ability to balance technical depth, delivery execution, operational rigor, and people leadership in complex environments.
Desirable Skills
- Additional depth in AI platforms, security tooling, telemetry engineering, or observability strongly valued depending on alignment to the specific role.
- Familiarity with cyber operations, security workflows, or high‑sensitivity operating environments preferred.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This role has supervisory responsibilities.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary and corporate bonus scheme.
- Pension scheme.
- Annual performance‑related pay reviews.
- Life assurance and income protection.
- Flexible working options and hybrid working.
- Private medical and dental insurance.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Discounted gym membership.
- Two paid volunteering days per year.
- Cycle to work scheme.
