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.

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.
• Minimum 5 years of overall experience in information technology field
• Experience creating a communication strategy of a company’s rick posture to senior stake holders including directors using quantified data
• Possess a broad knowledge of risk and security
• Experience preparing presentations, analytical reports, and documents regarding program operational status, achievement, and performance.
• Experience communicating and presenting to senior executive leadership
• Proficient experience with at least one of the following technologies: Tableau or PowerBI

Candidates must also demonstrate the following:

• Be creative, organized, responsive, and a thorough problem solver
• Possess a strong business acumen
• Have excellent oral/written presentation skills

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Understanding of Agile/XP/Scrum/Kanban
• Understanding of Continuous Integration/Testing/Delivery/CI/CD
• Familiarity with cloud architecture and services, such as AWS.
• Familiarity with code reviews and penetration testing preferred.
• CISSP Certification is a major plus.

YOUR ROLE IN THE TEAM

The Security Intelligence Metrics Lead architects and designs security metrics and data insights used to communicate the security posture of information security to an executive audience. This person leads a team that creates digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of Tableu, PowerBI, or software products.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the effort of shaping the security metrics across the information security department
• Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design
• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
• Serves as an expert in the domain of information security.
• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Allstate Information Security community.