Platform Consultant - Cyber Platforms, Data, & Tooling

Allstate Insurance; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 209,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive technology setup

Monthly connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Platform Consultant to join their Cyber Operations team in Illinois. This role focuses on building and integrating scalable Security Operations platforms while translating operational needs into enterprise-level designs. A minimum of five years of software engineering experience across programming paradigms is essential.

The successful candidate will ensure high-quality data for AI and drive adoption of unified solutions. The compensation offered ranges from $134,000.00 to $209,750.00 annually based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers.
• Expert knowledge of Agile/XP and DevOps methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define integration standards across AI, data, and tooling.
• Ensure high-quality, structured data for AI.
• Build scalable, reusable solutions for adoption.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Java (Programming Language)

RESTful APIs

Cloud Platform

DevOps

Software Engineering

Cross-Functional Leadership

Technical Consulting

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

CI/CD

Education

5 years software engineering experience

Experience in 3 programming paradigms (Object-oriented, Procedural, Functional)

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.

Job Description

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. The 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

• 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

• A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms including a) Object‑oriented (Java & JavaScript required and at least one other language) b) Procedural / systems (e.g. Go, Rust, C) 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 a) Telemetry and observability systems b) Data lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks c) 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.

Skills

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• CI/CD
• Cloud Platform
• Cross‑Functional Leadership
• Decision Making
• DevOps
• IT Solution Design
• Java (Programming Language)
• Platform Architecture
• RESTful APIs
• Software Engineering
• Structured Data
• Technical Consulting
• Test‑Driven Development (TDD)

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $134,000.00 - $209,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment‑based visas for this position.

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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.