Lead Data Security Engineer – DLP & Data Access (Hybrid)

Allstate; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus

Pension

Private medical

Dental insurance

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Volunteering days

Cycle to work

Job summary

Allstate NI in Belfast is seeking a Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and operating capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, and Data Access within cloud platforms and the SDLC.

This role combines people leadership with technical direction, ensuring automated, scalable solutions that protect sensitive data while enabling appropriate business use, through policy‑as‑code and integrated security controls.

Qualifications

• Legal right to work in the UK for Allstate employment; no sponsorship provided.
• At least 4 years of professional software, data, or security engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• At least 2 years of experience leading engineers while remaining actively engaged in design and code reviews.
• Deep knowledge of data protection, including DLP, data discovery and classification, and data access controls.
• Understanding of cloud, SaaS, CASB, and enterprise data protection architectures.
• Strong scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, YAML or JSON.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high‑performing team accountable for engineering data security products.
• Set technical direction and drive end‑to‑end execution across architecture, design, implementation, deployment and production support.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through code, solution design, and critical implementation work.
• Guide capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence or Data Access, including policy automation and access controls.
• Develop policy‑as‑code workflows, reusable control patterns, detection logic, and automated testing and deployment.
• Automate control lifecycle activities including validation, drift detection, reporting and health checks.
• Own reliability, effectiveness, adoption, and continuous improvement of the team’s products and controls.

Skills

Data Security

Security Engineering

Job description

Allstate NI in Belfast is seeking a Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and operating capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, and Data Access within cloud platforms and the SDLC.

This role combines people leadership with technical direction, ensuring automated, scalable solutions that protect sensitive data while enabling appropriate business use, through policy‑as‑code and integrated security controls.