Principal Engineer; Hybrid

Position: Principal Engineer (Hybrid)

At Allstate great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from lifes 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.

Your role in the team

The Principal Engineer leads Allstates Developer Experience organization driving the technical strategy adoption and continuous improvement of the tools platforms and capabilities engineers use to build test deploy secure and operate software. As a hands-on technical leader and advocate for the developer community this individual partners closely with engineering teams to reduce friction improve productivity and enhance the overall development experience.

The Principal Engineer champions modern engineering practices AI-assisted development and emerging agentic technologies while leading high-performing teams responsible for delivering scalable secure and innovative solutions that enable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the vision technical strategy and execution of Allstates Developer Experience program ensuring engineers have access to modern secure and efficient development tools and platforms.
• Serve as a trusted advocate for the engineering community by continuously gathering feedback understanding developer pain points and driving improvements that reduce friction and increase productivity.
• Remain actively engaged in software engineering practices contributing to technical discussions prototypes automation initiatives and platform improvements.
• Evaluate validate and govern developer tools plugins frameworks and platform capabilities before enterprise adoption to ensure security reliability and scalability.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development including Git Hub Copilot and emerging agentic engineering capabilities identifying opportunities to improve developer effectiveness and software quality.
• Partner with engineering leaders architects platform teams and product stakeholders to create a seamless and consistent development experience across the enterprise.
• Drive innovation through experimentation proof-of-concepts technical demonstrations and continuous assessment of emerging technologies.
• Establish metrics and KPIs focused on developer productivity platform adoption engineering satisfaction and operational excellence.
• Build and lead high-performing teams while fostering a culture of technical excellence learning innovation and customer-centric thinking.
• Influence enterprise-wide engineering standards best practices and technology decisions that enhance the software development lifecycle.
• Lead globally distributed and cross-functional teams to deliver modern engineering capabilities that enable speed quality security and reliability.

Skills & Capabilities

• Developer-first mindset with a passion for improving the engineering experience.
• Ability to influence technology strategy and drive adoption of new tools and practices across the enterprise.
• Proven change leadership and experience leading engineering transformation initiatives.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across engineering product and business teams.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience and developing high-performing teams.
• Effective communicator with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value.
• Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and product strategies to align with evolving business objectives and operational priorities.

Essential Criteria

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience (Java)
• A minimum of 5 years of experience leading engineering organizations platform engineering teams or developer experience functions.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building software and working directly with developer platforms automation tools and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong understanding of mainstream languages such as python and java script
• Experience leveraging Git Hub Copilot AI-assisted engineering tools large language models and emerging agentic development capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical leaders and drive adoption of new technologies and engineering practices.
• Experience presenting technical concepts facilitating demonstrations and engaging directly with engineering communities

Desirable Criteria

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related technical field.
• Previous experience working in large complex IT organisation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date: Sunday 6th September 11.59pm

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Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Development Experience Emerging Technologies Engineering Practices…