Security Engineering Senior Manager

Allstate is an insurance company advancing its embedded cybersecurity and security controls strategy through dedicated engineering teams. The Security Engineering Senior Manager leads the development, implementation, and support of security controls across multiple product security engineering teams, while architecting secure digital products and overseeing production applications, compliance, and security KPIs.

Responsibilities:

• Frequently advise others on complex security engineering matters
• Build foundation to translate security strategy into challenging and meaningful goals
• Manage teams responsible for strategic and critical security architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business
• Act as an authority in secure software best practices and propagate these throughout the broader organization, beyond their individual team
• Display expertise in viewing the organization as a whole, especially in terms of risk and security posture
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders to drive adoption of security controls and practices
• Designing, implementing, and productizing security controls to address complex business and technology challenges
• Working directly with business and technical teams to assess and provide security technology support
• Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes, with a focus on security risks and mitigations
• Displaying deep knowledge of technical details, integration, and functions of security tools and platforms (e.g., IAM, SIEM, vulnerability management, cloud security)
• Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades, influencing the security product roadmap
• Identifying and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities, especially in security operations
• Providing technical or functional leadership for team members in security engineering
• Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for secure development and operations

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience preferred in security engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or managerial role
• Deep understanding of secure software development, vulnerability management, cloud security, application security, and modern security engineering practices
• Experience with secure software configuration and development, including secure APIs, authentication/authorization, encryption, and threat modeling
• Experience working with modern security frameworks, tools, and methodologies (e.g., DevSecOps, CI/CD security, cloud-native security)
• Deep understanding of technology best practices in areas of secure development and compliance
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile SCRUM methodologies, and secure SDLC
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for continuous learning in security
• Strong team player with well-developed verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Dedicated, self-directed, motivated, proactive, and inquisitive