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Job Description

This role sits within Allstate Cyber Operations & Platforms as part of a set of Digital Product Teams responsible for building and operating a cohesive, scalable Security Operations platform ecosystem. This ecosystem spans:
Agentic Cyber Platforms (ACP): Operationalizing AI as a core cyber capability through shared platforms, orchestration patterns, and governance-by-design.
Security Data & Observability (SD&O): Engineering and managing the Security Operations Data Plane, enabling high-fidelity telemetry, analytics, and AI-ready data.
Tooling & Platform (T&P): Ensuring security tooling is integrated, governed, and aligned as part of a unified platform rather than disconnected solutions. Together, these capabilities enable secure, scalable, and intelligence-driven cyber operations by design.

The Platform Consultant defines and drivesarchitecture patterns, integration standards, and ecosystem strategyacross AI platforms, security data, and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as acoherent, reusable, and governed platform ecosystem, enabling safe, scalable adoption through well-defined "paved roads."

You will translate operational intent intoenterprise-scale platform design, ensuring interoperability between AI systems, data platforms, and tooling while minimizing fragmentation and maximizing reuse.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Standards

• Define architecture, design patterns, and integration standards across AI, data, and tooling.

• Establish APIs, data models, security controls, and observability requirements.

Data & AI Enablement

• Ensure high-quality, structured data for AI (lineage, consistency, readiness).

• Set standards for safe AI use (explainability, auditability, controlled actions).

Tooling & Integration

• Design unified integration across tools and platforms.

• Ensure tools produce consistent, high-quality, AI-ready data.

Paved Roads & Adoption

• Build scalable, reusable solutions as the default ("paved roads").

• Drive standardization, reduce duplication, andguideadoption.

Strategy & Decision-Making

• Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, andgovernance-driven.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner across teams (ACP, SD&O, T&P) for platform alignment.

• Influence teams to drive simplification, reuse, and consistency.

Essential Criteria

• A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms toinclude: a) Object-oriented (Java &JavaScriptrequiredand at least one other language) b) Procedural / systems (e.g.Go, Rust, C) c) Functional (e.g.F#, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell)

• Experience using modern development tools (e.g., IntelliJ or VS Code, Git/GitHub, Spring Boot) and designing robust RESTful APIs

• A minimum of 3 years hands onexpertisein architecting and delivering large scale distributed systems, such as cloud native microservices on Docker/Kubernetes, deployed on modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent), ensuring scalability, high availability, and performance

• Demonstrated success as a high impact technical advisor to multiple engineering teams, with proven ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers in best practices with proven leadership responsibilities.

• Expert level knowledge of Agile/XP and DevOps methodologies, including paired programming, test driven development (TDD), and CI/CD automation, witha track recordof using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Desirable Criteria

• Experience withagentic AI platforms, governance, and safe-action design

• Familiarity withsecurity operations ecosystems and analyst workflows

• Experience with:a) Telemetry and observability systems b) Data lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks c) Canonical data models and analytics-ready datasets

• Background intooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)

• Experience aligningAI, data, and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

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Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), CI/CD, Cloud Platform, Cross-Functional Leadership, Decision Making, DevOps, IT Solution Design, Java (Programming Language), Platform Architecture, RESTful APIs, Software Engineering, Structured Data, Technical Consulting, Test Driven Development (TDD)

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 134,000.00 - 209,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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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.