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.

Your role in the team

The Lead Engineer – Security Engineering will be the direct leader responsible for the day-to-day development, implementation, and support of security controls across multiple product security engineering teams, working with global stakeholders. This position requires a strong, well-rounded technical leader who can quickly learn the overall business and technology processes supported by the teams, and who is eager to grow skills within the security engineering landscape, including secure software development, cloud security, application security, and modern Dev Sec Ops practices. The role demands hands-on expertise in security engineering, along with solid integration and compliance knowledge.

Lead Engineers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Lead Engineer architects and designs secure digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of secure software. They own and manage running their applications in production and are accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs, including security metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex security engineering matters.
• Build foundation to translate security strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
• Manage teams responsible for strategic and critical security architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.
• Act as an authority in secure software best practices and propagate these throughout the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole, especially in terms of risk and security posture.
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders to drive adoption of security controls and practices.

Specific to Security Engineering Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and productizing security controls to address complex business and technology challenges.

• Working directly with business and technical teams to assess and provide security technology support.

• Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes, with a focus on security risks and mitigations.

• Deep knowledge of technical details, integration, and functions of security tools and platforms (e.g., IAM, SIEM, vulnerability management, cloud security).

• Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades, influencing the security product roadmap.

• Identifying and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities, especially in security operations.

• Providing technical or functional leadership for team members in security engineering.

• Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for secure development and operations.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software or security engineering
• A minimum of 3 year's experience in technical leadership or managerial role.
• Deep understanding of secure software development, vulnerability management, cloud security, application security, and modern security engineering practices.
• Experience with secure software configuration and development, including secure APIs, authentication/authorization, encryption, and threat modeling.
• Experience working with modern security frameworks, tools, and methodologies (e.g., Dev Sec Ops, CI/CD security, cloud-native security).
• Deep understanding of technology best practices in areas of secure development and compliance.
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile SCRUM methodologies, and secure SDLC.

Desirable Skills:

• Prior accountability for security KPIs such as vulnerability SLAs, incident rates, control coverage, and posture improvements.
• Experience owning systems end-to-end in production, including reliability and operational security.
• Experience conducting post-incident reviews and driving systemic improvements.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job does have supervisory duties.

Posting date: Monday 27th April 2026 {11.59pm}##

Application Security, Product Security, Security Architecture Design, Vulnerability Management

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.Why join us?

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence—recent winners of ‘Best Use of Cloud Services’ at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility.

We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

We offer:

• A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts

• Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D

• Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth

• A people-first culture with flexible working options

Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.