Head of Enterprise Authentication Engineering (Hybrid)

Allstate Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical and dental

Pension

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Job summary

Allstate NI seeks a highly technical Lead Engineer, Authentication Engineering to guide the design, implementation, and modernization of enterprise authentication platforms. You will oversee MFA, PKI, SSO, vaulting and Zero Trust initiatives, partnering with security, cloud, and AI teams to deliver scalable authentication services.

You will mentor Managing Engineers, drive IaC and automation, and shape engineering standards while aligning with strategy and governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years IT/Eng experience with authentication engineering
• Minimum of 3 years people management
• Strong expertise with Active Directory and Entra ID
• Experience deploying cloud-based solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with automated deployments (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins)

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, roadmaps and prioritization for authentication solutions.
• Lead architecture, engineering and delivery of enterprise authentication platforms.
• Design, implement and modernize MFA, PKI, SSO and vaulting solutions for Zero Trust.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code and test-driven validation.
• Lead large-scale authentication migrations and cross-functional program delivery.

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CyberArk

Job description

Allstate NI seeks a highly technical Lead Engineer, Authentication Engineering to guide the design, implementation, and modernization of enterprise authentication platforms. You will oversee MFA, PKI, SSO, vaulting and Zero Trust initiatives, partnering with security, cloud, and AI teams to deliver scalable authentication services.

You will mentor Managing Engineers, drive IaC and automation, and shape engineering standards while aligning with strategy and governance.