Allstate Insurance Company

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Job Description 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. Key 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. Essential Qualifications • 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 Desirable Qualifications • 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 #LI-MF1 Ideal Candidate Profile A senior software engineer who has grown into architecture and influence, enjoys enabling teams, can clearly articulate the reasoning behind technical decisions, and remains comfortable engaging with code when necessary. Experience • 10 or more years of experience (Or equivalent) Supervisory Responsibilities • This job does not have supervisory duties. Skills Cloud Development, Communication Technology, Design, Engineering Software, IT Architecture, Java, JavaScript, Solution Architecture, System Designs, Web Services API Compensation Compensation offered for this role is 160,200.00 - 227,550.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.