Platform Consultant Expert - (Hybrid)

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited

Belfast City District

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

13 hours ago

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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

Rust

Elixir

Spring Boot

Git/GitHub

IntelliJ

VS Code

Tools

IntelliJ

VS Code

Git/GitHub

Spring Boot

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

This role sits within Allstate Cyber Operations & Platforms as part of a set of Digital Product Teams responsible for building and operating a cohesive, scalable Security Operations platform ecosystem. This ecosystem spans:

Agentic Cyber Platforms (ACP): Operationalizing AI as a core cyber capability through shared platforms, orchestration patterns, and governance-by-design.
Security Data & Observability (SD&O): Engineering and managing the Security Operations Data Plane, enabling high-fidelity telemetry, analytics, and AI-ready data.
Tooling & Platform (T&P): Ensuring security tooling is integrated, governed, and aligned as part of a unified platform rather than disconnected solutions.

Together, these capabilities enable secure, scalable, and intelligence-driven cyber operations by design.

The Platform Consultant defines and drives architecture patterns, integration standards, and ecosystem strategy across AI platforms, security data, and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as a coherent, reusable, and governed platform ecosystem, enabling safe, scalable adoption through well-defined “paved roads.”

You will translate operational intent into enterprise-scale platform design, ensuring interoperability between AI systems, data platforms, and tooling while minimizing fragmentation and maximizing reuse.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Standards

Define architecture, design patterns, and integration standards across AI, data, and tooling.
Establish APIs, data models, security controls, and observability requirements.

Data & AI Enablement

Ensure high-quality, structured data for AI (lineage, consistency, readiness).
Set standards for safe AI use (explainability, auditability, controlled actions).

Tooling & Integration

Design unified integration across tools and platforms.
Ensure tools produce consistent, high-quality, AI-ready data.

Paved Roads & Adoption

Build scalable, reusable solutions as the default (“paved roads”).
Drive standardization, reduce duplication, and guide adoption.

Strategy & Decision-Making

Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and governance-driven.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Partner across teams (ACP, SD&O, T&P) for platform alignment.
Influence teams to drive simplification, reuse, and consistency.

Essential Criteria

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 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms to include:
Object-oriented (Java & Javascript required and at least one other language)
Procedural / systems (e.g. Go, Rust, C)
Functional (e.g. F#, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell)
Experience using modern development tools (e.g., IntelliJ or VS Code, Git/GitHub, Spring Boot) and designing robust RESTful APIs
A minimum of 3 years hands on expertise in architecting and delivering large scale distributed systems, such as cloud native microservices on Docker/Kubernetes, deployed on modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent), ensuring scalability, high availability, and performance
Demonstrated success as a high impact technical advisor to multiple engineering teams, with proven ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers in best practices with proven leadership responsibilities.
Expert level knowledge of Agile/XP and DevOps methodologies, including paired programming, test driven development (TDD), and CI/CD automation, with a track record of using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Desirable Criteria

Experience with agentic AI platforms, governance, and safe-action design
Familiarity with security operations ecosystems and analyst workflows
Experience with:
Telemetry and observability systems
Data lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks
Canonical data models and analytics-ready datasets
Background in tooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)
Experience aligning AI, data, and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date: Monday 5th October (11:59pm)

Skills

Architectural Patterns, Cloud Platform, DevOps, Ecosystems, Microservices Architecture

Why join us?

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. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.

What do you get in return?