Platform Consultant — Cyber Platforms, Data, & Tooling

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.

Job Description

Who is Allstate: Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to reassure both customers and employees with its “You’re in Good Hands®” promise and is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. To learn more, visit www.allstate.ca. For safety tips and advice, visit www.goodhandsadvice.ca. Through our Employee Value Proposition, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do. Role Designation: Remote Benefits to joining Allstate Flexible Work Arrangements. Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services). Good Office program (receive up to $400 back after purchasing office equipment). Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans. Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions. Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing. Personal days. Tuition Reimbursement. Working within the community and giving back. 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 drives architecture patterns, integration standards, and ecosystem strategy across AI platforms, security data, and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as a coherent, reusable, and governed platform ecosystem, enabling safe, scalable adoption through well-defined “paved roads.” You will translate operational intent into enterprise-scale platform design, ensuring interoperability between AI systems, data platforms, and tooling while minimizing fragmentation and maximizing reuse. Accountabilities: 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, and guide adoption. Strategy & Decision-Making Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions. Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and governance-driven. ​Cross-Functional Leadership Partner across teams (ACP, SD&O, T&P) for platform alignment. Influence teams to drive simplification, reuse, and consistency. Qualifications: 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 Bonus Qualifications: 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 Supervisory Responsibilities This job does not have supervisory duties. Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. #LI-GL1 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

Expected compensation for this role ranges from $ 109,200.00 - 159,200.00 annually. Actual salary offered to successful candidates will vary based on their skills and experience. 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. Allstate Canada Group uses AI technology tools to assist in screening, selecting, assessing, and scheduling interviews with candidates as part of the recruitment process. This job posting is for a current open role within the organization. Apply To This Job