Principal Platform Consultant

Allstate; United States; Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tech setup provided

Home connectivity stipend

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Director-level Principal Platform Consultant to lead discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions enabling business outcomes in line with enterprise architectures.

The role directs senior teams, builds company-wide alignment for technology platforms, and drives cohesive, homogeneous IT strategies while fostering an open-source, collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 12+ years of experience preferred.
• Proven ability to lead large, matrixed teams across locations.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure and platform solutions.

Responsibilities

• Advise on complex engineering matters.
• Translate strategy into actionable goals and roadmaps.
• Lead evolution of scalable, strategic visions and architectures.
• Ensure financial viability of decisions and attainment of KPIs.
• Oversee cross-shore product teams delivering modern tech solutions.
• Establish and maintain trust-based relationships across tech, product, vendors.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Innovation & process orientation

Change leadership

Influence

Operational excellence

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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.

This role will focus on setting the strategy and working through initial implementation for how we think of public cloud, private offerings on prem, infrastructure as it relates to GPU farms and AI use cases, mainframe modernization and platform capabilities implemented consistently across infrastructure solutions. Leveraging open source will be critical to the roll out of our fully realized hybrid infrastructure model which will require this leader to have deep ties into the open-source community such that we are active contributors, leaders and consumers of open-source solutions. This role will set direction for multiple product teams to ensure Allstate’s scaled delivery in this space is cohesive and driving towards homogeneity in technologies and simplicity in usage. As a Director you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. You can work remotely and will commute to a nearby office and/or travel for meaningful connection opportunities.

Job Summary

The Principal Platform Consultant has accountability for leading the discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions that enable business outcomes in compliance with enterprise target state architectures. The incumbent has direct leadership over critical groups with significant Allstate technology responsibilities. Directs groups that are more heavily resourced with more senior staff and are responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of Allstate’s technology. The Principal Platform Consultant is expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment support Allstate technologies. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to lead in the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage the running of Allstate technology applications in production and ultimately are accountable for the success of Allstate technologies that include digital products through achieving KPIs. The Director leads an outcome-based delivery organization, highly matrixed, and globally dispersed.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters.
• Integrate business plans by building foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
• Accountable for leading the evolution of scalable strategic visions.
• Achieving organization financial targets and ensuring viability of decisions are financially grounded.
• Achieves results through the management of teams that are responsible for strategic and critical pieces of architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
• Act as an authority in software best practices and be relied upon to propagate these in the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
• Accountable for leading the solutioning and technology implementations of outcomes driven by enterprise commitments and strategic roadmaps.
• Determines and establishes and leverages strong/trust-based relationships across technology, product stakeholders, vendors, and other partner organizations.
• Integrate by leading cross-shore product teams to deliver modern technology solutions that enable business opportunities and/or solve problems.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Required)

Experience

• 12 or more years of experience (Preferred).

Skills and Capabilities

• People Leadership & Talent Development: Track record of building, developing, and leading high‑performing large organizations; establishes clear decision rights, accountability, and operating cadence while developing future leaders and succession pipelines.
• Operational Expertise: Brings strong operational expertise, with a proven ability to optimize processes, drive execution against strategic outcomes, and deliver consistent, high-quality results across complex environments.
• Strategic Thinking & Innovation: Demonstrates strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex business challenges, identify innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Applies forward-looking insights and analytical rigor to optimize processes, enhance performance, and support long-term organizational objectives.
• Business Acumen & Analytical Rigor: Advanced business acumen with strong analytical skills; uses data, insights, and technology fluency to inform decisions and foster a culture of disciplined execution.
• Innovation & Process Orientation: Natural process innovator with strong learning agility and a continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Influence: Proven capability to successfully influence decision-makers and collaborators at all levels - upward, downward, and laterally. Able to build alignment, negotiate effectively, and drive outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.
• Change Leadership: Proven ability to lead large, multi‑location teams through significant changes, including business transformations, systems implementations, and organizational integrations.

Compensation

• Compensation offered for this role is 211,000.00 - 290,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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

Benefits and Perks

• 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.

Remote Working Requirements

• 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.
• To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual.
• Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview.
• If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter.

EEO and Diversity Statement

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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.

To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual.

Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview.

If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter.

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.