Managing Engineer 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 AIS is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate's technology ecosystem.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Managing Security Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of our next-generation digital security products. In this role, you will create, foster, and lead a community of engineers dedicated to delivering products focused on securing Allstate's digital ecosystem. You will be focused on inspiring innovation while ensuring the delivery of new products within an agile environment. This position blends technical depth, people leadership, and strategic influence. You will manage engineering resources, provide architectural and technical solutions, and ensure high performance through regular coaching and performance reviews. You are accountable for the end-to-end success of digital products, owning their performance in production and driving outcomes aligned with key KPIs.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a global engineering team of engineers, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development.
• Inspire and influence peers, direct reports, and stakeholders to achieve business objectives and embrace change.
• Influence and innovate new solutions to challenging security problems.
• Embrace an approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as needed (test/learn/iterate).
• Provide meaningful/thoughtful feedback on others as requested.
• Facilitate and participate in agile ceremonies, including daily standups, inception and iteration planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate closely with product managers to ensure technical input informs product scope and delivery.
• Partner in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders with the customer needs and wants in mind.
• Actively contribute to software development efforts, writing, reviewing, and guiding code to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure implementations.
• Balance technical leadership with hands-on coding to drive project success and mentor the team through example.
• Serve as an expert in the domain of information security engineering.
• Participate in the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product; actively help the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems.
• Satisfy all administrative-type requirements such as timesheets, performance management process, annual compliance, security training, etc.

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 4 years' experience delivering secure, scalable technology solutions with measurable impact (e.g., reduced vulnerabilities, improved system uptime).
• A minimum of 3 years hands-on coding experience in production environments (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript) with contributions that improved performance or security benchmarks.
• A minimum of 1 year's experience operating as a 'coach' partnering & mentoring early in trade software engineer peers across a broader technology organization.
• Experience of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test-driven development.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated testing and monitoring frameworks that decreased production incidents.
• Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for distributed apps.

Desirable Skills:

• Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and MITRE attack framework.
• Familiarity with Threat Modeling or industry threat modeling frameworks such as STRIDE.
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience with behaviour-driven development.
• Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to leverage them for productivity gains.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has supervisory duties.

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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're 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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