Platform Consultant Expert (Hybrid)

The Platform Consultant defines and drivesarchitecture patterns integration standards and ecosystem strategyacross AI platforms security data and tooling. This role ensures the environment evolves as acoherent reusable and governed platform ecosystem enabling safe scalable adoption through well-defined paved roads.

You will translate operational intent intoenterprise-scale platform design ensuring interoperability between AI systems data platforms and tooling while minimizing fragmentation and maximizing reuse.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Standards

• Define architecture design patterns and integration standards across AI data and tooling.

• Establish APIs data models security controls and observability requirements.

Data & AI Enablement

• Ensure high-quality structured data for AI (lineage consistency readiness).

• Set standards for safe AI use (explainability auditability controlled actions).

Tooling & Integration

• Design unified integration across tools and platforms.

• Ensure tools produce consistent high-quality AI-ready data.

Paved Roads & Adoption

• Build scalable reusable solutions as the default (paved roads).

• Drive standardization reduce duplication andguideadoption.

Strategy & Decision-Making

• Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.

• Ensure solutions are scalable secure andgovernance-driven.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner across teams (ACP SD&O T&P) for platform alignment.

• Influence teams to drive simplification reuse and consistency.

Essential Criteria

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.

• A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms toinclude:-

Object-oriented (Java &Javascriptand at least one other language)

Procedural / systems (e.g.Go Rust C)

Functional (e.g.F# Elixir Clojure Haskell)

• Experience using modern development tools (e.g. IntelliJ or VS Code Git/GitHub Spring Boot) and designing robust RESTful APIs

• A minimum of 3 years hands onexpertisein architecting and delivering large scale distributed systems such as cloud native microservices on Docker/Kubernetes deployed on modern cloud platforms (AWS Azure or equivalent) ensuring scalability high availability and performance

• Demonstrated success as a high impact technical advisor to multiple engineering teams with proven ability to influence architecture direction and mentor engineers in best practices with proven leadership responsibilities.

• Expert level knowledge of Agile/XP and DevOps methodologies including paired programming test driven development (TDD) and CI/CD automation witha track recordof using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Desirable Criteria

• Experience withagentic AI platforms governance and safe-action design

• Familiarity withsecurity operations ecosystems and analyst workflows

• Experience with:

• Telemetry and observability systems

• Data lineage metadata and data quality frameworks

• Canonical data models and analytics-ready datasets

• Background intooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)

• Experience aligningAI data and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date: Friday 11th September 11.59pm

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