Platform Security Architect & Strategic Advisor

Allstate Insurance Co.; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Co. seeks a visionary Platform Consultant to fuse engineering excellence with security strategy at scale.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed secure-by-design, perform threat modeling from the ground up, and promote zero-trust architectures across AI, API, and SaaS platforms. You will articulate risk posture to senior leaders, influence cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while advancing platform reliability and performance in an outcome-based delivery

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or architecture with leadership.
• Proven advisory experience guiding multiple engineering teams.
• Expertise in Agile/DevOps, CI/CD, TDD, and automated delivery.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to guide secure platform design and implementation.
• Embed secure-by-design principles and threat modeling throughout SDLC.
• Define security posture to leadership and enable informed decisions.
• Lead innovative security controls and drive secure engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers in reusable design, architecture, and outcome-based delivery.

Skills

8+ years experience

Security architecture

Zero Trust

Cloud microservices

Java/JavaScript

CI/CD automation

Threat modeling

Communication skills

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

OpenAPI/Swagger

IntelliJ/VS Code

Git/GitHub

Job description

Allstate Insurance Co. seeks a visionary Platform Consultant to fuse engineering excellence with security strategy at scale.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed secure-by-design, perform threat modeling from the ground up, and promote zero-trust architectures across AI, API, and SaaS platforms. You will articulate risk posture to senior leaders, influence cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while advancing platform reliability and performance in an outcome-based delivery