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. From advocating seat belts, airbags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Role Summary
As a Managing Engineer in our Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) Billing team, you'll lead the engineering strategy and delivery for Allstate's enterprise billing platform. This includes modernizing legacy IBM mainframe systems, building greenfield cloud‑native solutions, and ensuring accurate, secure, and scalable billing for millions of policies. You'll manage a team of engineers, drive technical excellence, and partner with stakeholders across Finance, Product, and Technology.
Key Responsibilities
* 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.
* Lead the architecture and technical design of new and existing billing platforms, services, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business OKRs and compliance expectations.
* Collaborate across product, finance, legal, engineering, and risk stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize the roadmap for billing, pricing, reconciliation, and operational workflows.
* Lead and participate in daily standups, cross‑site syncs, and team ceremonies, fostering strong communication and shared ownership across distributed teams.
* Drive and contribute to retrospectives, encouraging open, constructive, and empathetic feedback to support continuous improvement.
* Establish and champion modern DevSecOps practices—including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and cloud‑native deployment—and coach the team in their adoption.
* Lead and participate in knowledge‑sharing sessions, contributing to cumulative engineering excellence and strengthening the broader engineering community.
* Act as a technical anchor for the team, guiding decisions on architecture, tooling, frameworks, microservices patterns, event‑driven design, and scalable system operations.
* Coach engineers at all levels, supporting paired programming, test‑driven development, clean code practices, and operational accountability for production systems.
* Lead and manage a global engineering team of engineers, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, regular one‑on‑one meetings, performance reviews, and career development.
Essential Skills
* Minimum 4 years' experience in backend development using Java Spring Boot, Python or C#.
* Or minimum 4 years experience in one or more of: Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform), Containers (Docker/Kubernetes), or message brokers (Kafka).
* Minimum 1 year experience operating as a ‘coach’ partnering & mentoring early in trade software engineer peers across a broader technology organization.
Desirable Skills
* Hands‑on experience with billing, rating, invoicing, payments, or revenue systems in an enterprise context.
* Experience with managing vendor relationships.
* Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric or similar Data Lakes for analytics and financial reporting.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position will have supervisory responsibilities.
Posting Date
Friday 6th February 2026 11:59pm
Why Join Us?
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, recent winners of ‘Best Use of Cloud Services’ at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We are 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 Offer
* A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts.
* Access to world‑class learning platforms and award‑winning L&D.
* Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth.
* A people‑first culture with flexible working options.
* Be part of a high‑performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under‑represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
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