Managing Engineer – Billing in Belfast

At Allstate in Northern Ireland, we’re not just keeping pace — we’re setting it. As 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.

Overview

Your role in the team: 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.

Responsibilities

• Leads the architecture and technical design of new and existing billing platforms, services, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business OKRs and compliance expectations.
• Collaborates across product, finance, legal, engineering, and risk stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize the roadmap for billing, pricing, reconciliation, and operational workflows.
• Leads and participates in daily standups, cross-site syncs, and team ceremonies, fostering strong communication and shared ownership across distributed teams.
• Drives and contributes to retrospectives, encouraging open, constructive, and empathetic feedback to support continuous improvement.
• Establishes and champions modern DevSecOps practices—including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and cloud-native deployment—and coaches the team in their adoption.
• Leads and participates in knowledge-sharing sessions, contributing to the collective engineering excellence and strengthening the broader engineering community.
• Acts as a technical anchor for the team, guiding decisions on architecture, tooling, frameworks, microservices patterns, event-driven design, and scalable system operations.
• Coaches 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.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 4 years' experience in backend development using Java Spring Boot, Python or C#.
• Or a minimum of 4 years experience in one or more of the following: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Containers (Docker/Kubernetes) or message brokers (Kafka).
• A minimum of 1 year's experience operating as a ‘coach’ partnering & mentoring early in trade software engineer peers across a broader technology organization.
• Hands-on experience with billing, rating, invoicing, payments, or revenue systems in 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.

Be part of our team

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.

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.

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.
• 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.