At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic planning and integration across tech teams to drive impactful outcomes.
- Company: Join Allstate, a leader in protecting families for over 90 years.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Shape the future of technology while making a real difference in people's lives.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in strategic initiatives and team leadership within tech-driven organisations.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s 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 impact—curating 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
- 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 priorities—particularly 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 materials—ensuring 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
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
- Experience within financial services, insurance, consulting, technology, or other regulated industries
This job has supervisory duties.
Posting date: Sunday 23rd August 2026 (11.59pm)
Skills
- Business
- Business Process Change Management
- Business Strategies
- Consulting
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Technologies
- Storytelling
- Strategic Planning
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Principal - Strategic Planning & Integration- Hybrid employer: Allstate Northern Ireland Limited
At Allstate NI, we pride ourselves on being a leading employer in the tech industry, recognised for our innovative culture and commitment to employee growth. Our hybrid working model, competitive benefits package, and focus on continuous learning ensure that you can thrive both personally and professionally while contributing to meaningful projects that protect families and their belongings. Join us in Belfast, where your work will have a real impact, and you'll be part of a team that values collaboration and excellence.
Contact Details:
Allstate Northern Ireland Limited Recruitment Team
