Principal Software Engineer

Allstate Foundation; Illinois; On-site; USD 199,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the TORC engineering function and drive enterprise-scale software delivery. You will partner with Product Security and Security Operations to embed security into TORC products, while establishing an engineering culture centered on quality, automation, and measurable outcomes.

The role requires 12+ years of leadership in large-scale tech programs, ability to translate strategy into roadmaps, and a track record of transforming engineering practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field required.
• Master's degree or equivalent advanced technical experience preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive technology and engineering experience preferred.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-scale software, platform, or engineering capability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and translate strategy into execution.

Responsibilities

• Build and mature TORC's engineering capability including talent, practices, operating model, delivery discipline, and competencies.
• Provide senior engineering leadership for the USC, translating product direction into scalable technology.
• Lead engineering delivery of capabilities supporting control measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, and insights.
• Translate strategy and product direction into executable engineering roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and an engineering foundation that scales TORC and ACC products.

Skills

Executive Leadership

People Leadership

Software Engineering

Automation

Data Integration

Enterprise Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

Technology Operations, Risk & Compliance (TORC) is ACC's first-line operating system for controls, risk management and remediation, compliance, and resilience. TORC operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology operations, risk, controls, compliance, resilience, and enterprise transformation, turning ACC priorities and enterprise obligations into measurable controls, actionable intelligence, accountability, and sustained risk reduction. TORC is entering the next phase of that evolution: engineering risk and control capabilities that operate at enterprise scale. A cornerstone of this work is the Unified System of Controls (USC), a strategic ACC product intended to provide a sustainable command-and-control capability for controls, bringing together control expectations, procedures, measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, ownership, and accountability.

Job Summary

The role will also establish close engineering partnerships with Product Security (ProdSec) and Security Operations (SecOps) across ACC, leveraging and integrating their capabilities into TORC products where appropriate and avoiding creation of parallel security engineering capabilities. The Principal Engineer will help build the engineering function required to make that ambition real.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the TORC Engineering Function

• Build and mature TORC's engineering capability, including the talent, engineering practices, operating model, delivery discipline, and technical competencies necessary to deliver enterprise-scale products.
• Establish an engineering culture centered on quality, automation, reliability, security, reuse, observability, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization capable of solving complex technology, risk, and control problems.
• Establish clear engineering accountability and decision rights while developing future technical leaders and strengthening engineering capability across the organization.
• Create reusable engineering patterns and capabilities that enable TORC to scale beyond individual solutions.

Deliver the Unified System of Controls (USC)

• Provide senior engineering leadership for the Unified System of Controls, translating its product direction and requirements into scalable, production-grade technology.
• Lead engineering delivery of capabilities supporting control measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, workflow, integration, accountability, and decision-grade insight.
• Enable the movement from point-in-time and manually intensive control processes toward sustainable capabilities supported by automation and continuous telemetry.
• Ensure USC engineering is designed for enterprise scale, sustainability, interoperability, security, reliability, and reuse.
• Establish an extensible engineering foundation that can support additional TORC and ACC strategic products over time.

Translate Strategy and Product Direction into Engineering Execution

• Partner with Digital Product leadership to convert product vision, priorities, and outcomes into executable engineering roadmaps and delivery.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to determine how capabilities should be implemented within established enterprise technology and architecture direction.
• Bring an engineering perspective into product discovery, helping teams understand technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, scalability, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Maintain strong discipline between strategy ownership, product ownership, architecture accountability, and engineering execution.

What Success Looks Like

Success is not simply delivering a technology solution. It is establishing engineering as a durable capability within TORC.

The Principal Engineer will have:

• Built a mature, high-performing TORC engineering function with clear accountability, strong talent, disciplined engineering practices, and an outcome-oriented culture.
• Delivered significant engineering capabilities supporting the Unified System of Controls and demonstrated that USC can operate as a sustainable enterprise product.
• Created strong working relationships across Platform Consulting, Digital Product, Architecture, Product Security, Security Operations, and other ACC engineering functions.
• Established reusable engineering capabilities that can scale additional TORC and ACC strategic products.
• Increased the use of automation, integration, telemetry, and continuous measurement within TORC products.
• Demonstrated that complex risk and control challenges can increasingly be addressed through sustainable engineering rather than additional manual process.
• Established TORC Engineering as a trusted, high-impact technology partner within ACC.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field required.
• Master's degree or equivalent advanced technical experience preferred.

Experience

• 12+ years of progressive technology and engineering experience preferred.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-scale software, platform, or engineering capability.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially transforming engineering teams and engineering practices.
• Experience delivering secure, enterprise-scale applications or platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead highly complex initiatives spanning multiple organizations and technology domains.
• Experience translating strategy, product direction, and business requirements into engineering execution.
• Demonstrated success operating with senior executives and influencing across organizational boundaries.

Leadership & Functional Capabilities

• Exceptional engineering depth, with significant experience delivering secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise technology.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, APIs, data integration, automation, cloud, telemetry, observability, reliability, and secure engineering practices.
• Ability to assess highly complex technical and business challenges, evaluate implementation options and tradeoffs, and make sound decisions in high-pressure or time-sensitive environments.
• Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to translate strategy and desired outcomes into executable engineering roadmaps, standards, reusable patterns, and delivery disciplines.
• Ability to communicate complex engineering concepts in clear business language and influence senior executives, engineering leaders, peers, and cross-functional partners without relying solely on positional authority.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across highly matrixed and distributed environments, building alignment among product, platform, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, and engineering stakeholders.
• Experience leading significant technology, engineering, or operating-model transformation and establishing the practices required to sustain change.
• Strong talent and capability-building skills, including coaching, role clarity, accountability, upskilling, and development of future technical leaders.
• Sound judgment regarding the application of modern technology, AI, and automation, including the ability to balance innovation, business value, security, and risk.
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to measurable business outcomes through analytical rigor, technology fluency, and disciplined execution.

Why This Role Matters

TORC's next evolution depends on our ability to engineer solutions to risk and control problems that historically relieve process, manual intervention, and point-in-time visibility.

The Principal Engineer will be the senior engineering leader responsible for helping make that transition real.

This leader will build the engineering capability behind TORC, deliver foundational products such as the Unified System of Controls, and connect Product, Platform, Architecture, ProdSec, SecOps, and engineering execution to create sustainable technology solutions that improve how Allstate understands and manages control and technology risk.

Skills

Automation, Data Integration, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Executive Leadership, People Leadership, Software Engineering

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 199,000.00 - 274,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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

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