Managing Engineer - Security (Hybrid) TLNT1_NI 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 Product Security Engineering designs, builds, and operates enterprise security controls as software products that integrate directly into the SDLC and core enterprise platforms. The organization applies modern engineering practices to create scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly security capabilities that are embedded into the enterprise technology ecosystem and enable secure-by-default behaviours while minimizing friction for product and platform teams.

The Managing Security Engineer is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for leading a team that delivers and operates these security controls in production. This role blends deep technical leadership, people leadership, and delivery ownership: setting technical direction, guiding architecture and design decisions, coaching and developing engineers, and ensuring the team consistently ships high-quality software that achieves measurable security and engineering outcomes. The Managing Security Engineer is accountable for the end-to-end success of the team's security products, including reliability, adoption, and operational health in production.

• Lead and manage an engineering team delivering security controls as software products, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Set technical direction for the team and drive high-quality execution across design, implementation, deployment, and production support of security controls.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader by contributing to architecture and design reviews, guiding technical decisions, performing code reviews, and supporting critical-path implementation as needed.
• Own operational outcomes for the team's products in production, including reliability, performance, and continuous improvement through feedback and learning loops.
• Partner with Digital Product Managers, platform teams, and engineering stakeholders to effect alignment across roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans spanning multiple product portfolios.
• Build and sustain a strong engineering culture that emphasizes modern delivery practices (e.g., test-driven development, paired programming, CI/CD), fast feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Influence and innovate solutions to complex security challenges by translating security needs into scalable engineering approaches and reusable capabilities.
• Facilitate effective agile execution (standups, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives) while maintaining a strong focus on outcomes rather than ceremony.

• 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.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on production coding in modern languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python) and ownership of production systems delivering measurable reliability, performance, or security outcomes.
• A minimum of 2 years' experience leading engineers through hands-on technical guidance, including architecture reviews, design decisions, and code reviews.
• Proven background in building and operating scalable, distributed systems in cloud environments, including microservices-based architectures.
• Track record of designing, evolving, and integrating APIs and backend services, with attention to reliability, scalability, and security considerations.
• Practical application of modern engineering practices such as test-driven development, paired programming, CI/CD pipelines, and operational feedback loops including monitoring and observability.
• Experience operating within agile delivery environments, partnering closely with Digital Product Managers and engineering stakeholders to deliver outcomes.

• Demonstrated depth in security engineering domains such as application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, or secure software development practices.
• Practical experience designing or operating security controls embedded into CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, or shared platform services.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions beyond the immediate team, driving adoption of secure patterns, standards, or reusable capabilities across product areas.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, with a focus on raising engineering quality and long-term team capability.
• Strong organizational awareness and the ability to navigate cross-team dependencies while maintaining delivery momentum and technical integrity.
• Exposure to cloud-native and containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and/or Azure) and the security considerations that accompany them.
• Familiarity with security metrics and operational signals (e.g., control adoption, reliability, incident reduction) used to evaluate engineering and security outcomes.
• Strong mindset of balancing delivery velocity, security rigor, and developer experience, making thoughtful trade-offs appropriate to context.
• Demonstrated commitment to building solutions that balance robust security guarantees with an excellent developer experience, without compromising one for the other.

This role has supervisory responsibilities and serves as the first level manager for a team of engineers.

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.