Principal Software Product Engineer- Hybrid

Allstate; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus

Pension

Hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Volunteer days

Cycle to work

Job summary

Allstate NI seeks a Principal Engineer to build and lead TORC's engineering capability, delivering scalable control platforms and enterprise-scale solutions.

You will translate strategy into execution, drive engineering roadmaps, and collaborate with Product Security, Security Operations, Architecture, and Product teams to enable resilient, secure, and automated TORC products at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Legal right to work in the UK is required.
• Minimum 5 years in software/platform engineering and at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, APIs, system integration, automation, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development.
• Proven record of leading engineering teams, setting strategy, delivery, and operations.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale technology initiatives balancing business outcomes, governance, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead TORC's engineering organization, including talent, operating model, and practices.
• Deliver USC platform engineering for scalable control measurement, reporting, and evidence management.
• Translate strategy into engineering roadmaps and delivery plans; guide implementation decisions.
• Partner with ProdSec and SecOps to align security capabilities with TORC products.
• Lead organizational transformation and foster collaboration across TORC, ACC, and broader teams.

Skills

Legal right to work in UK

5+ years software engineering

Senior engineering leadership

Cloud-native architecture

APIs and system integration

Automation and observability

Secure software development

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise-scale delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree or equivalent (preferred)

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

Technology Operations, Risk & Compliance (TORC) is ACC’s first-line operating system for controls, risk management and remediation, compliance, and resilience. TORC operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology operations, risk, controls, compliance, resilience, and enterprise transformation, turning ACC priorities and enterprise obligations into measurable controls, actionable intelligence, accountability, and sustained risk reduction.

TORC is entering the next phase of that evolution: engineering risk and control capabilities that operate at enterprise scale. A cornerstone of this work is the Unified System of Controls (USC), a strategic ACC product intended to provide a sustainable command-and-control capability for controls, bringing together control expectations, procedures, measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, ownership, and accountability. The Principal Engineer will help build the engineering function required to make that ambition real.

The Principal Engineer, TORC Engineering is a highly senior technology leadership role responsible for building and leading TORC's engineering capability and driving the engineering execution of significant ACC strategic products, beginning with the Unified System of Controls.

The Principal Engineer will translate established strategy, product direction, architectural standards, and business requirements into executable engineering solutions. The role works within Allstate's architecture guardrails and partners with the appropriate Architecture functions on architectural direction and decisions.

The role will also establish close engineering partnerships with Product Security (ProdSec) and Security Operations (SecOps) across ACC, leveraging and integrating their capabilities into TORC products where appropriate and avoiding creation of parallel security engineering capabilities.

Key responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership & Capability Building

• Build and lead TORC’s engineering organization, including talent, operating model, engineering practices, and technical capability.
• Establish a high-performance engineering culture focused on quality, security, automation, reliability, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Develop future engineering leaders and create scalable, reusable engineering capabilities across the organization.

Unified System of Controls (USC) Delivery

• Provide engineering leadership for the USC platform, delivering scalable solutions for control measurement, reporting, workflow, evidence management, and decision support.
• Drive the transition from manual, point-in-time controls to automated, continuous, and data-driven capabilities.
• Ensure solutions are secure, reliable, interoperable, and built for enterprise scale.

Strategy-to-Execution Leadership

• Partner with Product and Architecture leaders to translate strategic priorities into engineering roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Guide technical implementation decisions, balancing scalability, feasibility, risk, and business outcomes.
• Provide engineering expertise throughout product discovery, planning, and execution.

Executive & Organizational Leadership

• Make sound decisions on complex technical and business challenges.
• Influence and communicate effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders across Allstate.
• Lead organizational and technology transformation while driving accountability and sustainable change.
• Foster collaboration across TORC, ACC, and broader technology teams.

Business & Technology Stewardship

• Connect engineering investments and decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Leverage modern technology, AI, and automation responsibly to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and control management.

What Success Looks Like

Success is not simply delivering a technology solution. It is establishing engineering as a durable capability within TORC.

The Principal Engineer will have:

• Built a mature, high-performing TORC engineering function with clear accountability, strong talent, disciplined engineering practices, and an outcome-oriented culture.
• Delivered significant engineering capabilities supporting the Unified System of Controls and demonstrated that USC can operate as a sustainable enterprise product.
• Created strong working relationships across Platform Consulting, Digital Product, Architecture, Product Security, Security Operations, and other ACC engineering functions.
• Established reusable engineering capabilities that can scale to additional TORC and ACC strategic products.
• Increased the use of automation, integration, telemetry, and continuous measurement within TORC products.
• Demonstrated that complex risk and control challenges can increasingly be addressed through sustainable engineering rather than additional manual process.
• Established TORC Engineering as a trusted, high-impact technology partner within ACC.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants mustdemonstratethey 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 of progressive experience in software engineering or platform engineering,
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior engineering leadership role.
• Hands on experience with modern engineering practices, including cloud native architecture, APIs, system integration, automation, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development.
• Previous experience of leading engineering teams, with responsibility for technology strategy, delivery, people leadership, and engineering operations.
• Demonstrated success building, scaling, or transforming engineering organisations, including implementing engineering standards, operating models, delivery practices, or capability-development initiatives that improved performance, quality, or delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale technology initiatives across product, platform, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, and engineering functions, balancing business outcomes, technical requirements, and governance obligations
• Significant experience delivering enterprise-scale applications, platforms, or digital products, supporting large user populations, business-critical processes, or complex technology ecosystems.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy and product roadmaps into engineering execution, delivering large scale initiatives from concept through implementation and operational support.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional programmes involving multiple teams, technology domains, and senior stakeholders, managing dependencies, priorities, risks, and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience presenting technology strategy, delivery progress, risks, and investment decisions to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field required.
• Master's degree or equivalent advanced technical experience preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role has supervisory responsibilities

Posting date: Monday 9th November 2026 [11.59pm]

Automation, Data Integration, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Executive Leadership, Leadership, People Leadership, People Management, Platform Engineering, Product Roadmap, Software Engineering, Technology Leadership, Technology Strategies, Technology Transformation

Shape the Future of Insurance with Cutting-Edge Tech and a People-First Culture

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?

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

Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.