Senior AI & Data Engineering Lead

Allstate Foundation; Illinois City (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop and peripherals provided

Monthly connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate seeks a Managing Engineer for Risk Data & AI to lead teams that design, build, and operate data products, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities that support risk and compliance decisions.

This hands-on leader blends technical excellence with people leadership and delivery ownership, ensuring scalable, reliable, secure solutions with measurable business impact across enterprise data platforms and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data, analytics, or AI engineering experience with hands-on development in Python and/or Java, and delivery of production-grade AI solutions.
• 2+ years leading engineers with technical guidance across architecture, design, code reviews, engineering standards, and delivery coaching.
• Experience with APIs, backend services, data pipelines, and analytical/reporting systems.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled applications, Generative AI solutions, or intelligent automation capabilities.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience with Generative AI frameworks, large language models, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise data and vector databases.
• Experience working in agile environments delivering data, analytics, or AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team delivering data products, AI-enabled applications, intelligent automation capabilities, and enterprise data platforms.
• Set technical direction across data engineering, AI engineering, application development, deployment, and operational support.
• Act as a hands-on leader contributing to architecture, design decisions, AI solution patterns, and critical-path development.
• Own production outcomes including system reliability, data quality, application performance, model effectiveness, and operational health.
• Partner with Digital Product Managers, data teams, AI teams, and engineering organizations to align roadmaps, priorities, and delivery outcomes.
• Drive modern engineering practices including TDD, CI/CD, observability, MLOps, automated testing, and responsible AI implementation.
• Translate business, risk, and compliance requirements into scalable data, analytics, and AI-powered solutions and reusable engineering patterns.
• Influence adoption of enterprise data standards, AI engineering best practices, and platform-integrated capabilities.
• Lead agile execution with a strong focus on measurable business outcomes, engineering excellence, and continuous delivery.

Skills

API Design

CI/CD

Data Analytics

DevSecOps

Generative AI

IT Leadership

Software Development

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

Allstate seeks a Managing Engineer for Risk Data & AI to lead teams that design, build, and operate data products, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities that support risk and compliance decisions.

This hands-on leader blends technical excellence with people leadership and delivery ownership, ensuring scalable, reliable, secure solutions with measurable business impact across enterprise data platforms and AI initiatives.