Principal Engineer, Database as a Service
About The Position
The Principal Engineer leads Allstate’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) organization, driving the technical strategy, adoption, and evolution of enterprise database platforms that support critical business applications across the company. This role will help modernize Allstate’s traditional database environment while advancing next-generation database capabilities that support cloud adoption, automation, and AI-enabled business needs. As a hands-on technical leader, this individual partners closely with engineering, security, infrastructure, architecture, and product teams to strengthen existing SQL Server and Oracle environments, expand modern database platforms, and improve developer productivity through automation, self-service, and Infrastructure as Code. The Principal Engineer plays a highly visible role in shaping Allstate’s future data platform ecosystem, influencing senior technical leaders, and enabling scalable, resilient, secure, and AI-ready database services. As a Director 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 may require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in enterprise database platforms and modern data infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
- Ability to influence enterprise technology strategy and drive adoption of new technologies and engineering practices.
- Proven change leadership and experience leading large-scale modernization or transformation initiatives.
- Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across engineering, architecture, security, and business teams.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience and developing high-performing engineering organizations.
- Effective communicator capable of translating complex technical concepts into business value.
- Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and product strategies to align with future platform and business needs.
- 12+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years leading large-scale enterprise database platforms, platform engineering initiatives, or modernization programs.
- Experience operating in large, complex enterprise environments and designing highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms supporting business-critical applications.
- Deep expertise in enterprise database platforms, including significant experience with SQL Server and/or Oracle environments supporting business-critical applications, along with exposure to modern database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or cloud-native database services.
- Strong experience with automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, DevOps, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience building, transforming, or modernizing self-service platforms and operational automation capabilities.
- Proven ability to influence enterprise technology strategy, architecture decisions, engineering roadmaps, and senior technical stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure, and product leaders to deliver enterprise-scale technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and drive organizational change through influence and hands-on technical leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or leading Database as a Service (DBaaS) platforms.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud-native database technologies.
- Experience enabling database platforms or data infrastructure that support AI, machine learning, analytics, or emerging enterprise AI use cases; exposure to AI-enabled operations, vector databases, or LLM infrastructure is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and modern cloud architectures.
- Experience leading large-scale cloud migration or enterprise database transformation initiatives.
- Understanding of FinOps, platform economics, operational excellence, and platform adoption metrics.
- Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and partnering with technology providers to align platform capabilities with future business and engineering needs.
- Industry certifications in cloud, database, architecture, or related disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Lead the vision, technical strategy, and execution of Allstate’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) platform across both traditional enterprise databases and emerging cloud-native capabilities.
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader and senior engineering resource for database architecture, platform modernization, and technical execution.
- Drive the stabilization, standardization, and modernization of critical SQL Server and Oracle database platforms.
- Advance Infrastructure as Code, APIs, automation, and self-service capabilities to improve database delivery, consistency, and operational efficiency.
- Help define and build next-generation database capabilities that enable AI, analytics, and future enterprise platform priorities.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, product, and senior technology leaders to align database platform investments with enterprise priorities.
- Influence highly visible technology decisions across senior technical leadership, principal engineers, officers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Establish metrics and KPIs focused on platform reliability, automation adoption, developer experience, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Establish enterprise standards for database security, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers, architects, and technical leaders while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, modernization, and continuous improvement.
- Influence vendor roadmaps and strategic technology partnerships to align platform capabilities with evolving business and engineering needs.
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
