Principal Engineer, Database as a Service 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 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 Allstates 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 Allstates future data platform ecosystem influencing senior technical leaders and enabling scalable resilient secure and AI-ready database services.

• Lead the vision technical strategy and execution of Allstates 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.

• 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.

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
• 5 years of experience in database engineering platform engineering cloud engineering infrastructure engineering or related technical disciplines.
• 5 years of experience leading technical teams mentoring engineers and driving organizational change through influence and hands-on technical leadership.
• 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.

Desirable criteria

• 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.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Job posting End Date: Sunday 6th September 2026

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Skills

Cloud Engineering Database As A Service (DBaaS) Enterprise Technologies Technical Strategy

Why join us
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstates European Digital Centre of Excellence a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. Were recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100 employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards and weve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.

Were a product-driven cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology a digital product-centric talent model and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed agility and value.

We also invest in you. At Allstate NI your career growth matters. Youll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths certifications and mentoring opportunities. Whether youre deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.

As well as receiving a competitive annual salary our reward package includes:

• Corporate bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Annual performance-related pay reviews
• Life assurance and income protection
• Flexible working options
• Hybrid working
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Be part of a high-performing socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose and your growth is supported every step of the way.