Managing Engineer – Database, Platform

Allstate

Managing Engineer leading Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on-prem and cloud databases at Allstate. Overseeing technical roadmap, team management, and operational leadership.

Posted 6/21/2026full-timeBelfast • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMongoDBMySQLRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
Drive proactive incident prevention.
Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
Lead post incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Corporate bonus scheme
Pension scheme
Annual performance-related pay reviews
Life assurance and income protection
Flexible working options
Hybrid working
Private medical and dental insurance
Access to an employee assistance programme
Discounted gym membership
Two paid volunteering days each year
Cycle to work scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

MySQLRedisMongoDBdatabase administrationdatabase architectureperformance tuningschema designdata modelingbackup/restore strategiesautomation

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical leadershipincident managementcommunicationcollaborationcoachingproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementinfluencingcapacity planning