Security Engineering Lead Engineer (Hybrid) in Belfast

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.

Your role in the team

The Lead Engineer – Security Engineering will be the direct leader responsible for the day-to-day development, implementation and support of security controls across multiple product security engineering teams, working with global stakeholders. This position requires a strong, well-rounded technical leader who can quickly learn the overall business and technology processes supported by the teams, and who is eager to grow skills within the security engineering landscape, including secure software development, cloud security, application security and modern DevSecOps practices. The role demands hands-on expertise in security engineering, along with solid integration and compliance knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex security engineering matters.
• Build foundation to translate security strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
• Manage teams responsible for strategic and critical security architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
• Act as an authority in secure software best practices and propagate these throughout the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole, especially in terms of risk and security posture.
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders to drive adoption of security controls and practices.

Specific to Security Engineering Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and productizing security controls to address complex business and technology challenges.
• Working directly with business and technical teams to assess and provide security technology support.
• Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes, with a focus on security risks and mitigations.
• Deep knowledge of technical details, integration and functions of security tools and platforms (e.g., IAM, SIEM, vulnerability management, cloud security).
• Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades, influencing the security product roadmap.
• Identifying and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities, especially in security operations.
• Providing technical or functional leadership for team members in security engineering.
• Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for secure development and operations.

Essential Skills

• Legal right to work in the UK; no sponsorship provided.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software or security engineering.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a technical leadership or managerial role.
• Deep understanding of secure software development, vulnerability management, cloud security, application security and modern security engineering practices.
• Experience with secure software configuration and development, including secure APIs, authentication/authorization, encryption, and threat modeling.
• Experience working with modern security frameworks, tools and methodologies (e.g., DevSecOps, CI/CD security, cloud-native security).
• Deep understanding of technology best practices in areas of secure development and compliance.
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile SCRUM methodologies and secure SDLC.

Desirable Skills

• Prior accountability for security KPIs such as vulnerability SLAs, incident rates, control coverage and posture improvements.
• Experience owning systems end-to-end in production, including reliability and operational security.
• Experience conducting post-incident reviews and driving systemic improvements.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does have supervisory duties.

Benefits

• 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.

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 completes AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.