Allstate
Principal Platform Consultant – Cyber Resiliency
Key aspects of the role:
- Drive sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers- all while working remote
- No cold calling— Connect through inbound calls and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers
- Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary + uncapped commissions
- Sell reputable products from Allstate and our family of brands
Role overview
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
The Principal Platform Consultant, Cyber Resiliency is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise’s architectural and engineering strategy for its multi-layered recovery solution. Direction will come directly from the Chief Information Security Officer. This role leads a team of three Solution Architects and partners extensively across Allstate Technology Solutions (ATS), Enterprise Risk & Return Management (ERRM), and second-line governance teams, including those shaping the build pipeline through the Business Priority Index (BPI) process.
This Cyber Resiliency leader brings deep solution architecture expertise, a proven record of delivery, and strong cross-functional partnership abilities. This leadership role ensures the organization can rapidly recover essential business processes and platforms from material event disruptions by embedding resiliency into design, delivery, governance, and prioritization practices and building standalone systems for hard failover events. This most qualified leader will be a hands-on engineering practitioner who can direct an enterprise level team of 30-40+ contributors responsible for component level design of necessary network, endpoint, compute solutions to bring the Allstate integrated recovery tech and datacenter-in-a-box to life. This leader should explore instrumentation and automation through AI of resilience platforms and be comfortable prototyping agentic use cases in support of the overall program.
As a Director here at Allstate, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This will require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.
Key Responsibilities
-
Develop and maintain enterprise cyber resiliency architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
-
Lead a team of Solution Architects to design and deliver resilient platform solutions that meet business, security, and operational requirements.
-
Guide implementation of core resiliency capabilities including recovery assurance, immutable backups, segmentation, clean-room recovery, and automated recovery patterns.
-
Partner with second-line functions, including the BPI team, to ensure resiliency requirements are embedded into prioritization, investment governance, and risk processes.
-
Work closely with ATS engineering, SRE, SecOps, IAM, and ERRM to align resiliency architecture with risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and enterprise technology strategy.
-
Support readiness activities such as resilience testing, tabletop exercises, and operational validation of recovery capabilities.
-
Provide executive-level architectural insights, recommendations, and roadmaps to senior stakeholders, including the CIO and risk leadership.
-
Ensure resilience designs support target RTO/RPO objectives, regulatory obligations, and business continuity expectations.
-
Uplift architectural practices across the organization through thought leadership, coaching, and capability building.
Key Job Qualifications & Competencies
-
10+ years of progressively senior experience in solution architecture, platform engineering, cybersecurity, or technology strategy roles.
-
Demonstrated success leading architecture for large-scale, hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
-
A strong delivery track record—driving resilient architecture solutions from design through execution and operationalization.
-
Experience partnering across technology, business, and risk functions in a complex enterprise environment.
-
Experience with resiliency and recovery patterns such as backup/restore, disaster recovery, segmentation, zero trust, or automated recovery workflows.
-
Prior experience leading or mentoring architects or engineering teams.
-
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and drive delivery.
-
Exceptional cross-functional partnership and influence skills.
-
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage CIO- and risk level stakeholders.
-
Ability to lead, coach, and develop senior architects.
-
Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in governance and prioritization processes.
-
Business acumen with the ability to align technology decisions to enterprise risk, value, and outcomes.
#LI-JJ1
Skills
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cloud Platform, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cyber Resiliency, Executive Communications, People Leadership, Ransomware, Solution Architecture, Strategic Thinking, Zero Trust Architecture
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $199,000 – 262,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
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 generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Sales
What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.
How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.
Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
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
The Principal Platform Consultant, Cyber Resiliency is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise’s architectural and engineering strategy for its multi-layered recovery solution. Direction will come directly from the Chief Information Security Officer. This role leads a team of three Solution Architects and partners extensively across Allstate Technology Solutions (ATS), Enterprise Risk & Return Management (ERRM), and second-line governance teams, including those shaping the build pipeline through the Business Priority Index (BPI) process.
This Cyber Resiliency leader brings deep solution architecture expertise, a proven record of delivery, and strong cross-functional partnership abilities. This leadership role ensures the organization can rapidly recover essential business processes and platforms from material event disruptions by embedding resiliency into design, delivery, governance, and prioritization practices and building standalone systems for hard failover events. This most qualified leader will be a hands-on engineering practitioner who can direct an enterprise level team of 30-40+ contributors responsible for component level design of necessary network, endpoint, compute solutions to bring the Allstate integrated recovery tech and datacenter-in-a-box to life. This leader should explore instrumentation and automation through AI of resilience platforms and be comfortable prototyping agentic use cases in support of the overall program.
As a Director here at Allstate, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This will require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.
Key Responsibilities
-
Develop and maintain enterprise cyber resiliency architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
-
Lead a team of Solution Architects to design and deliver resilient platform solutions that meet business, security, and operational requirements.
-
Guide implementation of core resiliency capabilities including recovery assurance, immutable backups, segmentation, clean-room recovery, and automated recovery patterns.
-
Partner with second-line functions, including the BPI team, to ensure resiliency requirements are embedded into prioritization, investment governance, and risk processes.
-
Work closely with ATS engineering, SRE, SecOps, IAM, and ERRM to align resiliency architecture with risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and enterprise technology strategy.
-
Support readiness activities such as resilience testing, tabletop exercises, and operational validation of recovery capabilities.
-
Provide executive-level architectural insights, recommendations, and roadmaps to senior stakeholders, including the CIO and risk leadership.
-
Ensure resilience designs support target RTO/RPO objectives, regulatory obligations, and business continuity expectations.
-
Uplift architectural practices across the organization through thought leadership, coaching, and capability building.
Key Job Qualifications & Competencies
-
10+ years of progressively senior experience in solution architecture, platform engineering, cybersecurity, or technology strategy roles.
-
Demonstrated success leading architecture for large-scale, hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
-
A strong delivery track record—driving resilient architecture solutions from design through execution and operationalization.
-
Experience partnering across technology, business, and risk functions in a complex enterprise environment.
-
Experience with resiliency and recovery patterns such as backup/restore, disaster recovery, segmentation, zero trust, or automated recovery workflows.
-
Prior experience leading or mentoring architects or engineering teams.
-
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and drive delivery.
-
Exceptional cross-functional partnership and influence skills.
-
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage CIO- and risk level stakeholders.
-
Ability to lead, coach, and develop senior architects.
-
Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in governance and prioritization processes.
-
Business acumen with the ability to align technology decisions to enterprise risk, value, and outcomes.
#LI-JJ1
Skills
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cloud Platform, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cyber Resiliency, Executive Communications, People Leadership, Ransomware, Solution Architecture, Strategic Thinking, Zero Trust Architecture
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $199,000 – 262,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
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 generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Claims
What We Do:
Your ability to quickly and calmly make smart decisions can make a huge difference in how confident customers feel throughout the claims process. And as you support our customers, we’re there to support you.
How We Support You:
We empower your success starting day one. You’ll have access to everything you need to grow professionally while helping our customers get their lives back on track.
Make An Impact:
Helping customers with their claims is about learning their stories, not just processing their paperwork. You can take pride in the fact that you’re providing invaluable guidance and helping to build continued trust in our company.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
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
The Principal Platform Consultant, Cyber Resiliency is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise’s architectural and engineering strategy for its multi-layered recovery solution. Direction will come directly from the Chief Information Security Officer. This role leads a team of three Solution Architects and partners extensively across Allstate Technology Solutions (ATS), Enterprise Risk & Return Management (ERRM), and second-line governance teams, including those shaping the build pipeline through the Business Priority Index (BPI) process.
This Cyber Resiliency leader brings deep solution architecture expertise, a proven record of delivery, and strong cross-functional partnership abilities. This leadership role ensures the organization can rapidly recover essential business processes and platforms from material event disruptions by embedding resiliency into design, delivery, governance, and prioritization practices and building standalone systems for hard failover events. This most qualified leader will be a hands-on engineering practitioner who can direct an enterprise level team of 30-40+ contributors responsible for component level design of necessary network, endpoint, compute solutions to bring the Allstate integrated recovery tech and datacenter-in-a-box to life. This leader should explore instrumentation and automation through AI of resilience platforms and be comfortable prototyping agentic use cases in support of the overall program.
As a Director here at Allstate, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This will require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.
Key Responsibilities
-
Develop and maintain enterprise cyber resiliency architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
-
Lead a team of Solution Architects to design and deliver resilient platform solutions that meet business, security, and operational requirements.
-
Guide implementation of core resiliency capabilities including recovery assurance, immutable backups, segmentation, clean-room recovery, and automated recovery patterns.
-
Partner with second-line functions, including the BPI team, to ensure resiliency requirements are embedded into prioritization, investment governance, and risk processes.
-
Work closely with ATS engineering, SRE, SecOps, IAM, and ERRM to align resiliency architecture with risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and enterprise technology strategy.
-
Support readiness activities such as resilience testing, tabletop exercises, and operational validation of recovery capabilities.
-
Provide executive-level architectural insights, recommendations, and roadmaps to senior stakeholders, including the CIO and risk leadership.
-
Ensure resilience designs support target RTO/RPO objectives, regulatory obligations, and business continuity expectations.
-
Uplift architectural practices across the organization through thought leadership, coaching, and capability building.
Key Job Qualifications & Competencies
-
10+ years of progressively senior experience in solution architecture, platform engineering, cybersecurity, or technology strategy roles.
-
Demonstrated success leading architecture for large-scale, hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
-
A strong delivery track record—driving resilient architecture solutions from design through execution and operationalization.
-
Experience partnering across technology, business, and risk functions in a complex enterprise environment.
-
Experience with resiliency and recovery patterns such as backup/restore, disaster recovery, segmentation, zero trust, or automated recovery workflows.
-
Prior experience leading or mentoring architects or engineering teams.
-
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and drive delivery.
-
Exceptional cross-functional partnership and influence skills.
-
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage CIO- and risk level stakeholders.
-
Ability to lead, coach, and develop senior architects.
-
Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in governance and prioritization processes.
-
Business acumen with the ability to align technology decisions to enterprise risk, value, and outcomes.
#LI-JJ1
Skills
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cloud Platform, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cyber Resiliency, Executive Communications, People Leadership, Ransomware, Solution Architecture, Strategic Thinking, Zero Trust Architecture
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $199,000 – 262,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
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 generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Benefits
Experience the benefits that make Allstate a great place to work.
*Benefits vary based on position.
Health
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- HSAs and FSAs
- Wellbeing programs
- Free therapy sessions
Retirement
- 401(k) plan
- Pension plan
- Free financial counseling
Work-life balance
- Paid time off
- Work flexibility
Career development
- Talent shares
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
For a full description of Allstate’s benefits visit our benefits page
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