Security Engineering Senior Manager

Allstate NI; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus

Pension

Hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Cycle to work

Job summary

Allstate NI in Belfast is seeking a Lead Engineer - Security Engineering to lead day-to-day development, implementation, and support of security controls across multiple product teams. You will build secure digital products and own production deployments.

The role demands hands-on leadership, deep expertise in secure software development, cloud security, DevSecOps practices, and the ability to align security with business goals and KPIs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' software or security engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years in technical leadership or management.
• Deep knowledge of secure SDLC, cloud security, and DevSecOps.
• Experience with secure APIs, authentication/authorization, encryption, and threat modeling.
• Experience with TDD, Agile SCRUM.

Responsibilities

• Advise on complex security engineering matters.
• Translate security strategy into actionable goals.
• Lead teams responsible for strategic security architecture.
• Promote secure software practices across the organization.
• Drive security posture and risk management.
• Design and implement secure controls across products.

Skills

Security engineering

Technical leadership

DevSecOps

Secure software development

Cloud security

Vulnerability management

Threat modeling

Agile SCRUM

TDD

Tools

IAM

SIEM

Vulnerability management tools

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Lead Engineer - Security Engineering

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.

The role

The Lead Engineer - Security Engineering will be the direct leader responsible for the day-to-day development, implementation, and support of security controls across multiple product security engineering teams, working with global stakeholders. This position requires a strong, well-rounded technical leader who can quickly learn the overall business and technology processes supported by the teams, and who is eager to grow skills within the security engineering landscape, including secure software development, cloud security, application security, and modern DevSecOps practices. The role demands hands-on expertise in security engineering, along with solid integration and compliance knowledge. Lead Engineers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Lead Engineer architects and designs secure digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of secure software. They own and manage running their applications in production and are accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs, including security metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex security engineering matters.
• Build foundation to translate security strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
• Manage teams responsible for strategic and critical security architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
• Act as an authority in secure software best practices and propagate these throughout the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole, especially in terms of risk and security posture.
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders to drive adoption of security controls and practices.
• Specific to Security Engineering Responsibilities: Designing, implementing, and productizing security controls to address complex business and technology challenges.
• Working directly with business and technical teams to assess and provide security technology support.
• Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes, with a focus on security risks and mitigations.
• Deep knowledge of technical details, integration, and functions of security tools and platforms (e.g., IAM, SIEM, vulnerability management, cloud security).
• Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades, influencing the security product roadmap.
• Identifying and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities, especially in security operations.
• Providing technical or functional leadership for team members in security engineering.
• Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for secure development and operations.

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 5 years of experience in software or security engineering
• A minimum of 3 year's experience in technical leadership or managerial role.
• Deep understanding of secure software development, vulnerability management, cloud security, data security, and modern security engineering practices.
• Experience with secure software configuration and development, including secure APIs, authentication/authorization, encryption, and threat modeling.
• Proven experience operating within a DevSecOps model, with hands-on responsibility for designing, building, securing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting production services through their full lifecycle
• Deep understanding of technology best practices in areas of secure development and compliance.
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile SCRUM methodologies, and secure SDLC.

Desirable Skills

• Prior accountability for security KPIs such as vulnerability SLAs, incident rates, control coverage, and posture improvements.
• Experience owning systems end-to-end in production, including reliability and operational security.
• Experience conducting post-incident reviews and driving systemic improvements.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does have supervisory duties.

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. At Allstate, we work hard to help people live a good life every day. Allstaters are dedicated to serving clients, customers, and communities, which allows employees to find meaning and value in their work. Allstate offers an environment that fosters innovative thinking where you'll be able to explore your ideas and feel proud of the work you do. Allstate helps protect nearly 16 million households with auto, home, life, and retirement products. We want every professional connected to Allstate to be committed to giving our customers the best and that means finding the best talent. We want you to be our next great addition.

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Skills Cloud Computing, Compliance, Enterprise IT, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Security Engineering, Security Solutions, Security Tools, Software as a Service (SaaS)

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