Risk Partner Senior Manager - Technology & Cybersecurity

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

As a Risk Partner Senior Manager supporting Technology and Cybersecurity, you’ll add value by being a second line of defense, responsible for representing and providing a forward‑looking view of operational risk for Allstate’s Enterprise Shared Services Technology team. You’ll also support other shared services like HR, Legal, Finance and Law & Regulation. Your consolidated operational risk view of the criticality of enterprise platforms, sensitive data, regulatory obligations and third-party ecosystems will be provided for each these functions.
Recognizing that engagement with technology teams and that many material risk discussions are rooted in cyber and technology risk, your deep cybersecurity knowledge and expertise will help drive alignment. While supported by an extended team of domain specialists (e.g., resilience, third‑party, regulatory), the Risk Partner personally leads cybersecurity risk engagement and integrates those insights into a broader operational risk narrative for executive leaders.
You’ll act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership, translating complex risk signals into clear business impact, enabling informed decision‑making, and ensuring that material risks are identified, assessed, escalated, and managed in alignment with enterprise risk frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise and Business Risk Partnership

• Serve as the primary risk partner and advisor to senior business and technology leaders for Enterprise Shared Services Technology (ATS) and the supported shared services functions (Human Resources, Legal, Finance, and Law & Regulation) providing an integrated view of operational risk across cybersecurity, technology, resilience, third‑party, and compliance domains.

• Develop and maintain a consolidated risk profile that connects disparate risk signals into a coherent, decision‑enabling narrative for leadership and governance forums.

• Influence strategy, investment decisions, and delivery roadmaps by ensuring risk considerations are identified early and aligned with enterprise risk tolerance.

Cybersecurity Risk Leadership (Core Accountability)

• Provide cybersecurity risk leadership for enterprise platforms supporting shared services, including risks related to sensitive employee data, financial systems, legal information, regulatory data, and privileged access.

• Maintain hands‑on cybersecurity expertise and serve as the primary cybersecurity risk authority for the supported business and technology domain.

• Lead high-impact cyber risk discussions with technology teams and ensure informed stakeholder risk acceptance decisions.

• Translate high-severity cybersecurity findings (e.g., vulnerabilities, control deficiencies, incident learnings) into clear business impact, tradeoffs, and risk posture for senior leaders.

• Function as the second line risk advisor during significant cyber incidents or supplier events, assessing business and customer impact and overseeing remediation and risk decisions.

Second Line of Defense Oversight

• Operate as a second line of defense function, providing independent oversight, challenge, and guidance to first line teams without owning controls or delivery execution.

• Apply enterprise risk taxonomies, assessment methodologies, and reporting standards to ensure consistency and comparability of risk information.

• Monitor remediation commitments, documented exceptions, and compensating controls, escalating risks that exceed established tolerance.

Risk Identification, Assessment, and Reporting

• Plan and oversee risk assessments and thematic reviews, synthesizing outputs into executive‑level insights and trend analysis.

• Identify systemic risk trends and emerging threats, proactively advising leadership on potential impacts and mitigation options.

• Prepare and deliver concise risk briefings for senior leaders, councils, and committees.

Collaboration Across Risk Functions

• Prepare and deliver concise risk briefings for senior leaders, councils, and committees.

• Leverage extended domain expertise while retaining accountability for the integrated risk view and messaging.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, operational risk, or related disciplines within a large, complex organization.

• Demonstrated deep cybersecurity expertise equivalent to a Business Information Security Officer, Security Risk Lead, or similar senior cyber risk role.

• Proven experience operating in or alongside a second line of defense function within a Three or Four Lines of Defense model.

• Ability to engage credibly with senior engineers, architects, and security teams while maintaining independence from first‑line delivery ownership.

• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in highly regulated environments and familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting technology and cybersecurity risk.

• Experience with operational resilience, third‑party risk, or enterprise risk management functions.

• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or equivalent).

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Skills

Cyber Risks, Data Privacy, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Information Security Risk Management, IT Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), IT Security Operations, Operation Risk Management, Relationship Management, Security Consulting, Security Risk, Stakeholder Influence, Stakeholder Relationship Management

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 151,700.00 - 221,675.00 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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