Managing Engineer - Billing Hybrid

Position: Managing Engineer - Billing - (Hybrid)
Location: Londonderry

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.

Your role in the team As a Managing Engineer in our Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) Billing team, you'll lead the engineering strategy and delivery for Allstate's enterprise billing platform. This includes modernizing legacy IBM mainframe systems, building greenfield cloud-native solutions, and ensuring accurate, secure, and scalable billing for millions of policies. You'll manage a team of engineers, drive technical excellence, and partner with stakeholders across Finance, Product, and Technology.

Key Responsibilities:

All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment state is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. Leads the architecture and technical design of new and existing billing platforms, services, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business OKRs and compliance expectations. Collaborates across product, finance, legal, engineering, and risk stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize the roadmap for billing, pricing, reconciliation, and operational workflows.

Leads and participates in daily standups, cross-site syncs, and team ceremonies, fostering strong communication and shared ownership across distributed teams. Drives and contributes to retrospectives, encouraging open, constructive, and empathetic feedback to support continuous improvement. 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.

Your role in the team As a Managing Engineer in our Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) Billing team, you'll lead the engineering strategy and delivery for Allstate's enterprise billing platform. This includes modernizing legacy IBM mainframe systems, building greenfield cloud-native solutions, and ensuring accurate, secure, and scalable billing for millions of policies. You'll manage a team of engineers, drive technical excellence, and partner with stakeholders across Finance, Product, and Technology.

Key Responsibilities:

All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment state is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. Leads the architecture and technical design of new and existing billing platforms, services, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business OKRs and compliance expectations. Collaborates across product, finance, legal, engineering, and risk stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize the roadmap for billing, pricing, reconciliation, and operational workflows.

Leads and participates in daily standups, cross-site syncs, and team ceremonies, fostering strong communication and shared ownership across distributed teams. Drives and contributes to retrospectives, encouraging open, constructive, and empathetic feedback to support continuous improvement. Establishes and champions modern Dev Sec Ops  practices-including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and cloud-native deployment-and coaches the team in their adoption. Leads and participates in knowledge-sharing sessions, contributing to the collective engineering excellence and strengthening the broader engineering community.

Acts as a technical anchor for the team, guiding decisions on architecture, tooling, frameworks, microservices patterns, event-driven design, and scalable system operations. Coaches' engineers at all levels, supporting paired programming, test-driven development, clean code practices, and operational accountability for production systems. Lead and manage a global engineering team of engineers, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development.

Essential

Skills:

A minimum of 4 years' experience in backend development using Java Spring Boot, Python or C#. OR A minimum of 4 years experience in one or more of the following:
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Containers (Docker/Kubernetes) or message brokers (Kafka). A minimum of 1 years' experience operating as a 'coach' partnering & mentoring early in trade software engineer peers across a broader technology organization. Desirable

Skills:

Hands-on experience with billing, rating, invoicing, payments, or revenue systems in enterprise context.

Experience with Managing Vendor relationships. Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, or…