Platform Architect: AI, Data & Tooling

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate NI is transforming its cyber operations platform, shaping architecture across AI, data, and tooling. The Platform Consultant will drive standards, enable scalable, secure, and governance-driven solutions, and partner with ACP, SD&O, and T&P teams to simplify and reuse platform components.

You will translate operational intent into enterprise-scale designs, ensure interoperability of AI systems and data platforms, and guide adoption of reusable patterns while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• Legal right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.
• 5+ years of software engineering in at least 3 paradigms including OO (Java & JavaScript) and at least one other language.
• 3+ years architecting large-scale distributed systems (cloud-native microservices, Docker/Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers; strong leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture patterns across AI, data, and tooling.
• Set integration standards, APIs, security controls, and observability requirements.

Skills

Architectural patterns

Cloud platform

DevOps

Ecosystems

Microservices architecture

Java

JavaScript

Go

Rust

C

F#

Elixir

Spring Boot

Git/GitHub

IntelliJ

VS Code

Tools

IntelliJ

VS Code

Git/GitHub

Spring Boot

Job description

Allstate NI is transforming its cyber operations platform, shaping architecture across AI, data, and tooling. The Platform Consultant will drive standards, enable scalable, secure, and governance-driven solutions, and partner with ACP, SD&O, and T&P teams to simplify and reuse platform components.

You will translate operational intent into enterprise-scale designs, ensure interoperability of AI systems and data platforms, and guide adoption of reusable patterns while mentoring engineers and