Platform Consultant Senior Expert (Software Architecture & Enablement Focus)

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

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About The Position

The Platform Consultant – Senior Expert (Software Architecture Focus) designs, evolves, and enables enterprise-scale platforms that support customer-facing and internal engineering teams. This role serves as a hands-on technical authority, blending deep software engineering experience with architecture, technical advisory, and platform enablement. This is not a pure paper-architect role. The ideal candidate has a strong background as a senior software engineer and uses that experience to guide architecture decisions, mentor teams, and ensure solutions scale reliably in enterprise environments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or platform roles
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and/or JavaScript
• Experience with API design and service-based architectures
• Experience operating applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Ability to guide teams through architectural tradeoffs
• Experience working in regulated or risk-aware enterprise environments

Nice To Haves

• Front-end experience (e.g., React)
• Event-driven or integration-heavy system experience
• Exposure to customer communication platforms (chat, SMS, voice)
• Experience influencing strategy in matrixed organizations

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable, reliable platform architectures supporting multiple engineering teams
• Drive architecture and design for customer service and communication platforms
• Act as a technical authority for design decisions, tradeoffs, and integration patterns
• Provide technical guidance, enablement, and advisory support to teams
• Review and influence APIs, system designs, and event-driven integrations
• Occasionally contribute code (approximately 5–10%) to validate designs or unblock teams
• Partner with security, operations, and application teams to ensure production readiness
• Mentor senior engineers and influence direction without direct authority
• Align technical solutions with business and technology roadmaps
• Evaluate emerging technologies and apply industry standards
• Build trust and influence with engineering directors, principal engineers, and design leaders to shape backlogs and engineering practices.
• Apply industry standards and evaluate emerging technologies, sharing relevant insights with the broader engineering community.
• Act as a collaborative thought leader by questioning assumptions and considering downstream implications of technical decisions.

Benefits

• Compensation offered for this role is 160,200.00 - 227,550.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
• The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed