Managing Engineer – Privilege Systems

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

The Architect-Manager serves as the expert in IT systems architecture, undertaking complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge The Architect-Manager makes decisions on complex or ambiguous IT architecture issues, coordinating with users to determine requirements, and ensuring system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored, finding ways to increase efficiency. The Architect-Manager manages architects and leads the delivery of complex IT and Infrastructure Architecture projects, sets goals for team members, provides timely direction and oversight, evaluates performance, and makes recommendations on development of architecture skills.

Key Responsibilities 

• Drive requirements analysis activities and develop the design of highly complex architectural solutions involving multiple logical and/or physical dimensions. Oversee the production and present documentation for these components. 

• Maintain awareness of current complex architectures and business drivers and guide their application to initiatives as appropriate. 

• Consult on the application of reference architecture, strategic direction of enterprise technology, and serve as subject matter expert with contextual knowledge of the business model. 

• Utilize or develop reusable patterns, practices, and enterprise reference architectures that fit within the overall Allstate architectural blueprint. 

• Advocate effective architectural designs and optimize current architecture and processes 

• Influence clients and partners to prioritize for enterprise benefit and risk reduction and assist in driving the adoption of technology solutions that leverage existing patterns, practices, and reference architectures. 

• Identify opportunities to enhance existing architecture. 

• Assist with drafting the business case including identification of potential business/customer benefits. 

• Apply reference architectures and positions toward the design, deployment and support of highly complex systems that deliver business functionality. 

• Involve Director and Associate Vice President level leadership from business and technology disciplines to present and deliver highly complex solutions as needed. 

Essential Skills  

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in Privileged Access Management 

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Infrastructure as Code 

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Azure Cloud 

• A good understanding of Privileged Identity Management, JIT (Just-in-Time access) and JEA (Just Enough Administration) 

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience coaching and mentoring global teams

Desirable criteria  

• Experience in AWS and GCP 

• Understanding of authentication (OAuth, SAML, Kerberos), authorization, and account lifecycle. 

• Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud—especially their identity and secrets management tools (e.g., Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager). 

• Strong experience with Windows Server, Linux, and Active Directory environments. 

• Experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar for automating tasks. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

• This job has supervisory duties. 

Skills

Active Directory (AD), AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Cloud Computing, Design, Employee Supervision, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), IT Architecture, Kerberos, Leadership, Linux, Mentorship, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PowerShell, OAuth, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Privileged Identity Management, Python (Programming Language), SAML, Systems Development, Windows Azure Cloud

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $125,200.00 – 207,550.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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.

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