Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering (Hybrid OR Remote)

Allstate NI; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Annual pay reviews

Life assurance and income protection

Flexible working options

Hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Two volunteering days

Job summary

Allstate NI is seeking a Managing Engineer in Data Security Engineering to lead a team building scalable security controls integrated into cloud platforms and enterprise services.

You will own end-to-end delivery, drive architectural direction, and mentor engineers while delivering automated, measurable security outcomes.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years in software, data, or security engineering with production ownership.
• At least 2 years of people leadership while remaining hands-on in design and code reviews.
• Deep knowledge of data protection including DLP, discovery, classification, and access controls.
• Cloud, SaaS, CASB, and enterprise data protection architectures experience.
• Proficient in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, YAML, JSON.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of data security product engineers.
• Set technical direction across architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through code and solution design decisions.
• Drive capabilities in DLP policy, data intelligence, and data access controls.
• Develop policy-as-code workflows, reusable control patterns, and automated testing and deployment.
• Automate control lifecycle activities, including validation and health checks.
• Ensure reliability, adoption, and continuous improvement of products and controls.
• Translate complex data security requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Skills

Data protection

Policy as code

Cloud security

Leadership

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

REST APIs

YAML

JSON

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Your role in the team Product Security Engineering designs, builds, and operates enterprise security controls as software products that integrate directly into cloud platforms, the software development lifecycle, and core enterprise services.

The organization applies modern software and cloud engineering practices to deliver scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly security capabilities that enable secure-by-default behaviors across the enterprise.

The Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, and Data Access. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership, ensuring the team delivers automated, scalable, and measurable solutions that protect sensitive data while enabling appropriate business use.

Key responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team accountable for engineering data security products and controls.
• Set technical direction and drive execution across architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through code and, solution design, key technical decisions, and critical implementation work.
• Guide the engineering of capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, or Data Access, including policy automation, data discovery and classification, and access controls.
• Develop and advance policy-as-code workflows, reusable control patterns, detection logic, platform integrations, and automated testing and deployment.
• Automate control lifecycle activities, including validation, configuration drift detection, reporting, alert enrichment, and operational health checks.
• Own the reliability, effectiveness, adoption, and continuous improvement of the team’s products and controls.
• Translate complex data security requirements into scalable technical solutions and measurable outcomes.

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 of professional software, data, or security engineering experience, including ownership of production systems and technical products.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience leading engineers while remaining actively engaged in technical design, code reviews, and complex engineering work.
• Deep technical knowledge of data protection, including DLP, data discovery and classification, information protection, data access controls, and data governance.
• Comprehensive understanding of cloud, SaaS, CASB, and enterprise data protection architectures.
• Strong scripting and automation proficiency using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, YAML, JSON, or comparable technologies.
• Proven ability to build version-controlled security solutions using policy as code, automated delivery pipelines, APIs, and reusable components.
• Demonstrated success transforming manual, console-based administration into scalable, automated operating models.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview and other enterprise platforms supporting DLP, data discovery and classification, information protection, or data access governance.
• Knowledge of integrating data security capabilities with identity, cloud, SIEM, SOAR, workflow, and enterprise data platforms through APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and drive adoption of secure patterns and engineering standards across product areas.
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and developing emerging technical leaders.
• Understanding of security and operational measures, such as control adoption, detection quality, reliability, and risk reduction, used to evaluate engineering outcomes and guide priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date: Friday 16th October (11:59pm)

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Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey. 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 also invest in you.

At Allstate NI, your career growth matters.

What do you get in return?

• As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes: Corporate bonus scheme Pension scheme Annual performance-related pay reviews Life assurance and income protection Flexible working options Hybrid working Private medical and dental insurance Access to an employee assistance programme Discounted gym membership Two paid volunteering days each year Cycle to work scheme

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