Platform Consultant Expert, Java Backend, Cloud Platforms, Gen AI

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

This role sits within Allstate Cyber Operations & Platforms as part of a set of Digital Product Teams responsible for building and operating a cohesive, scalable Security Operations platform ecosystem. This ecosystem spans:

Agentic Cyber Platforms (ACP): Operationalizing AI as a core cyber capability through shared platforms, orchestration patterns, and governance-by-design.

Security Data & Observability (SD&O): Engineering and managing the Security Operations Data Plane, enabling high-fidelity telemetry, analytics, and AI-ready data.

Tooling & Platform (T&P): Ensuring security tooling is integrated, governed, and aligned as part of a unified platform rather than disconnected solutions. Together, these capabilities enable secure, scalable, and intelligence-driven cyber operations by design.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Mandatory)

Experience

• 15+Yrs of total experience 7 or more years of experience in Platform Consultant

Work from office (Hybrid)

Location- Bangalore/Pune

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, and guide adoption.

Strategy & Decision-Making

• Lead build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and governance-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

• A minimum of 5 years software engineering experience in at least 3 programming paradigms to include: a) ​Object-oriented (Java & JavaScript required and at least one other language) b) Procedural / systems (e.g. Go, Rust, C) 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 on expertise in 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, with a track record of using these practices to accelerate delivery and improve quality

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with agentic AI platforms, governance, and safe-action design
• Familiarity with security operations ecosystems and analyst workflows
• Experience with: a) Telemetry and observability systems b) Data lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks c) Canonical data models and analytics-ready datasets
• Background in tooling integration and platform standardization (golden paths/paved roads)
• Experience aligning AI, data, and tooling strategies into a unified platform vision

Primary Skills

AI Data Quality, AI Observability, API Development, Java (Programming Language), Security Controls

Shift Time

Recruiter Info

Hiral Parag Rughani

hparb@allstate.com

About Allstate

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.