Senior Data & AI Engineering Lead

Allstate; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a senior leader to design, build, and operate data, analytics, and AI capabilities that support risk and compliance decisions. You will guide production systems, data platforms, and AI-enabled applications across teams.

Lead agile execution with a focus on measurable business outcomes, establish engineering standards, and drive modern practices such as CI/CD, testing, observability, and responsible AI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data, analytics, or AI engineering experience with hands-on development in Python and/or Java, delivering 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.

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.

Skills

Python

Java

APIs

Data pipelines

AI engineering

CI/CD

MLOps

Prompt engineering

Tools

Vector databases

LLMs

RAG frameworks

Job description

Allstate is seeking a senior leader to design, build, and operate data, analytics, and AI capabilities that support risk and compliance decisions. You will guide production systems, data platforms, and AI-enabled applications across teams.

Lead agile execution with a focus on measurable business outcomes, establish engineering standards, and drive modern practices such as CI/CD, testing, observability, and responsible AI.