Principal Platform Consultant - Cyber Resiliency

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

7d • $199,000 - $262,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

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