Platform Consultant Senior Expert

Allstate Private Limited; Sacramento, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Connectivity reimbursement for home

Home office setup guidance

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Platform Consultant Senior Expert to lead platform design and data analytics initiatives that drive insurance pricing and underwriting outcomes. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture leadership across a large enterprise.

You will mentor the platform consultant community, align product design to enterprise standards, and collaborate with technology and business leaders to deliver measurable value and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of platform consulting or enterprise architecture experience.
• Strong Insurance domain knowledge and technical expertise.
• Ability to influence architecture direction across a large organization.
• Mentor platform consultant community and align designs to standards.
• Excellent stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Define & execute on Data strategy and analytics needs for Insurance Pricing & UW.
• Manage priorities to support the platform to achieve measurable business impact.
• Conduct stakeholder and risk analysis and guide critical decision-making.
• Influence Discovery and Framing sessions across the ecosystem and apply simplicity.
• Contribute to the overall landscape of platform technical architecture.
• Liaise between technical and business leaders; align roadmaps and strategies.
• Build trust with engineering directors and design leaders; influence backlogs.
• Apply industry standards and emerging technologies; share key findings with the community.
• Be a thought leader influencing technical decisions in a collaborative way.

Skills

Analytics

Business

Platform Architecture

Data Strategies

Design

Technical Architecture

Strategic Direction

Taking Initiative

Prioritization

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

The Platform Consultant Senior Expert engages in solution design for business & technical problems at the platform level. The Platform Consultant has very strong Insurance Domain & technical expertise and is considered a subject matter expert over products and platform, driving the horizontal platform consultant community and contributing to building consistency across the enterprise. They Expert acts as a technical mentor for the platform consultant community and the technical strategy across a large organization. This position is responsible for aligning product design to local and enterprise standards/patterns and can unlock business value while enabling engineering focus. This role interacts with senior leaders in the organization within technology, architecture and business to understand future visions to align strategic direction with tactical needs across the entire ecosystem. This role combines hands‑on engineering capabilities with the ability to lead and influence architecture direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Define & execute on Data strategy and analytics needs for the Insurance Pricing & UW needs
  Expertly manages the priorities, value and time to support the platform to achieve measurable impact to business outcomes
• Conducts stakeholder and risk analysis along with problem solving with the dedicated platform consultant as high priority initiatives arise and critical decisions need to be made
• Influences Discovery and Framing sessions across entire ecosystem. Engages in applying simplicity to achieve desired outcomes
• A key contributor to the overall landscape of technical architecture those platform consultants contribute to
• Liaison between technical leaders and business leaders. Provides direction and guidance of future strategy ensuring the roadmaps for both business and technology align tactically and strategically
• Builds trust and influence with engineering directors and principal engineers, along with our design leaders to influence backlogs and engineering practices
• Demonstrates subject matter expertise and considers input from the Community of Platform in reaching decisions, enabling strategies/patterns and when handling ECC red to green situations
• Applies industry standards and engages in emerging technologies. Filters important findings to the rest of the community
• Thought leader with the ability to influence technical decisions in a collaborative manner by questioning and considering implications

Experience

10 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

Analytics, Business, Business Outcomes, Business Values, Collaboration, Data Strategies, Design, Platform Architecture, Prioritization, Product Design, Solutions Design, Strategic Direction, Taking Initiative, Technical Architecture, Technical Strategy

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 160,200.00 - 227,550.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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

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