Senior Data Security Engineering Lead – DLP & Access

Allstate Insurance Company; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Two paid volunteering days each year

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Allstate NI is seeking a Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering, to lead a team responsible for data protection products and enterprise security controls across cloud platforms and the SDLC. The role combines leadership with hands-on technical direction to deliver scalable, automated security solutions that protect sensitive data while enabling business use.

You will shape policy automation, data discovery/classification, and access controls, driving delivery, reliability, and measurable

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software, data, or security engineering with ownership of production systems.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineers while contributing to technical design, code reviews, and complex engineering work.
• Deep knowledge of data protection, including DLP, data discovery/classification, information protection, data access controls, and data governance.
• Comprehensive understanding of cloud, SaaS, CASB, and enterprise data protection architectures.
• Strong scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, YAML, JSON.
• Proven ability to build policy-as-code driven security solutions and automated delivery pipelines.
• Experience transforming manual administration into scalable, automated operating models.

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, solution design, and critical implementation work.
• Guide the engineering of capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, and Data Access, including policy automation and access controls.
• Develop and advance policy-as-code workflows, reusable control patterns, and automated testing and deployment.
• Automate control lifecycle activities, including validation, drift detection, reporting, alerting, and health checks.
• Own reliability, adoption, and continuous improvement of the team’s products and controls.
• Translate complex data security requirements into scalable technical solutions and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Data security engineering

Team leadership

Policy as code

Cloud architectures

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

REST APIs

Data governance

Automation

Tools

Terraform

YAML

JSON

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Allstate NI is seeking a Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering, to lead a team responsible for data protection products and enterprise security controls across cloud platforms and the SDLC. The role combines leadership with hands-on technical direction to deliver scalable, automated security solutions that protect sensitive data while enabling business use.

You will shape policy automation, data discovery/classification, and access controls, driving delivery, reliability, and measurable