Managing Engineer – Security
Allstate
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Belfast • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead and manage a global engineering team of engineers, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development
- Inspire and influence peers, direct reports, and stakeholders to achieve business objectives and embrace change
- Influence and innovate new solutions to challenging security problems
- Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate)
- Provide meaningful/thoughtful feedback on others as requested
- Facilitate and participate in agile ceremonies, including daily standups, inception and iteration planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
- Collaborate closely with product managers to ensure technical input informs product scope and delivery
- Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders with the customer needs and wants in mind
- Actively contribute to software development efforts, writing, reviewing, and guiding code to ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure implementations
- Balance technical leadership with hands-on coding to drive project success and mentor the team through example
- Serves as an expert in the domain of information security engineering
- Participates in the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product; actively helps the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems
- Satisfy all administrative-type requirements such as timesheets, performance management process, annual compliance, security training, etc.
Requirements
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience delivering secure, scalable technology solutions with measurable impact (e.g., reduced vulnerabilities, improved system uptime)
- A minimum of 3 years hands on coding experience in production environments (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript) with contributions that improved performance or security benchmarks
- A minimum of 1 years’ experience operating as a ‘coach’ partnering & mentoring early in trade software engineer peers across a broader technology organization
- Experience of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test-driven development
- Experience designing and maintaining automated testing and monitoring frameworks that decreased production incidents
- Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for distributed apps
- Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and MITRE attack framework
- Familiarity with Threat Modeling or industry threat modeling frameworks such as STRIDE
- Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
- Experience with behavioral driven development
- Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning
- Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to leverage them for productivity gains.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPython.NETJavaScriptAgile methodologiesCI/CD pipelinesautomated testingmonitoring frameworksweb securityAPI security
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationinfluencefeedbackcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic alignmentteam management