Product Engineer Lead Consultant

Key Responsibilities   

• Design, build, and operate software products that support risk management, risk controls, control workflows, and TORC operational needs. 

• Own risk engineering product capabilities end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, integration, and ongoing operational support in production. 

• Write, test, and maintain high-quality production code across React front ends, Spring Boot services, SQL data layers, and supporting microservices. 

• Apply engineering best practices such as test-driven development, paired programming, code review, automated testing, and continuous integration and deployment. 

• Contribute to high-level and low-level system and component designs with a focus on scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and effective risk control outcomes. 

• Continuously evaluate and adopt technologies, frameworks, and patterns that improve the usability, performance, resilience, and automation of risk and control products. 

• Collaborate closely with product managers, platform teams, control owners, and partner engineering groups to align product capabilities with ACC and enterprise risk needs. 

• Participate in agile delivery ceremonies and contribute to a culture of fast feedback, incremental delivery, continuous improvement, and strong production ownership. 

 
Essential Skills:   

• 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. 

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems throughout the full software development lifecycle and hands-on proficiency in React, Java, and Spring Boot. 

• Minimum of 1 year demonstrated experience of coaching or mentoring engineers, with evidence of improving individual or team technical capability across full-stack, microservices, or risk product delivery. 

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems, cloud-based applications, and microservices architectures. 

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and integrate APIs, backend services, REST-based interfaces, SQL data stores, and event-driven components using technologies such as Kafka. 

• Strong working knowledge of modern development workflows and engineering practices such as test-driven development, paired programming, automated testing, code review, and continuous integration and deployment. 

• Experience collaborating effectively within agile delivery models, working closely with product managers, engineers, control owners, and partner teams to deliver risk-focused product outcomes. 

• Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements to scalability, security, reliability, performance, or control effectiveness. 

• Track record of driving cross-team collaboration to deliver integrated risk and control products, achieving alignment across multiple product portfolios, technology teams, and stakeholder groups. 

 
Desirable Skills: 

• Working knowledge of risk management, control management, compliance workflows, or technology risk concepts, with the ability to translate business needs into effective product capabilities. 

• Experience implementing or integrating authentication, authorization, role-based access controls, and identity-based access patterns within applications and services. 

• Knowledgeable in secure software development practices, resilient service design, data protection, and testing patterns for business-critical applications. 

• Practical exposure to containerized and cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure. 

• Exposure to large language models (LLMs), machine learning concepts, or systems that incorporate AI-driven capabilities to improve productivity, automation, or risk insight generation. 

• Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot or Cursor responsibly to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation. 

• Demonstrated commitment to building solutions that balance strong engineering quality, robust risk control outcomes, operational resilience, and an excellent user experience. 

 
Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• This job does not have supervisory duties. 

Posting date: Thursday 2nd July 2026 [11.59pm]