[Remote] Platform Consultant — Cyber Platforms, Data, & Tooling
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a leading insurance company that has been innovating for over 90 years to meet the evolving needs of its customers. They are seeking a Platform Consultant to drive architecture patterns and integration standards across AI platforms, security data, and tooling, while ensuring the development of a cohesive and scalable Security Operations platform ecosystem. This role involves collaboration across teams to establish best practices and guide the adoption of secure, scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define architecture, design patterns, and integration standards across AI, data, and tooling
- Establish APIs, data models, security controls, and observability requirements
- Ensure high-quality, structured data for AI (lineage, consistency, readiness)
- Set standards for safe AI use (explainability, auditability, controlled actions)
- Design unified integration across tools and platforms
- Ensure tools produce consistent, high-quality, AI-ready data
- Build scalable, reusable solutions as the default (“paved roads”)
- Drive standardization, reduce duplication, and guide adoption
- Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and governance-driven
- Partner across teams (ACP, SD&O, T&P) for platform alignment
- Influence teams to drive simplification, reuse, and consistency
Skills
- A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms to include: a) Object-oriented (Java & JavaScript required and 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 on expertise in 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, with a track record of using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality
- Experience with agentic AI platforms, governance, and safe-action design
- Familiarity with security 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 in tooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)
- Experience aligning AI, data, and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision
Benefits
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
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