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December 4, 2023

Allstate Software Studio opens at Queen's University Belfast

Allstate NI and Queen's University Belfast have opened the Allstate Software Studio, a new purpose-built training facility for software engineering students.

November 28, 2023

Helping revolutionize the Digital Landscape: Allstate NI iOS Developers Unleash Cutting-Edge App Magic!

Allstate has introduce an updated version of its mobile app, with new features with customers' broader needs and "go beyond" traditional insurance services.

November 27, 2023

Allstate NI achieves Platinum level in the 2023 Environmental Benchmarking Survey

We are delighted to have achieved Platinum level in the 2023 Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey recognised as the sector leader in sustainability.

November 15, 2023

Apprentice Insight

At Allstate NI we prioritize developing a talented workforce that is equipped with skills for the future. We offer a 4-year paid Apprenticeship in partnership with Ulster University with participants graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Systems upon completion and a job within Allstate NI.

October 6, 2023

Volunteering for a Cause: How Allstate NI employees are getting involved!

The Allstate NI Volunteer Challenge provides 15 hours for all employees to Be a Force for Good in our community. A group of employees volunteer at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

October 23, 2023

Digital Product Manager: Reskilling Program

The 4-day course has been designed to build the core capabilities needed for these employees to transition into product manager roles. Participants explore the full product lifecycle learning the key skills required to go from idea to customer success.

September 25, 2023

Leading the Way: Allstate NI's Commitment to Sustainability

At Allstate Northern Ireland, we aim to be a responsible and socially conscious business, implementing practices and initiatives that benefit our people, our community and our environment.

September 22, 2023

Digital Product Manager: Reskilling Program

Digital Product Management bootcamp, delivered by MadeFor, explore the full product lifecycle, learning the key skills required to go from idea to customer success.

August 30, 2023

Digitally transforming our customer experiences within the Contact Centre

Allstate Technology Support Centre (ATSC) team pride themselves on their digital transformation for customer and employees.

August 25, 2023

Improving security globally using API's at Allstate

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team here at Allstate implemented reusable, event-driven, RESTful APIs that expose IAM capabilities and functions for the Enterprise to programmatically consume.

August 21, 2023

Investing in our People for Roles of the Future — Digital Product Manager reskilling

At Allstate NI, we're passionate about providing reskilling and upskilling opportunities to our employees to help them progress their careers.

August 10, 2023

Automation at Allstate using Large Language Model's to transform customer's experiences

There are many examples of machine-learning automation tools in use within Allstate, for example we have voice transcription and sentiment modeling.

August 4, 2023

Evolve Reskilling Program: Neil Mallon

Reskilling has become a vital strategy in today's rapidly evolving world. As technology continues to reshape industries, as individuals and an organization we must embrace the power of reskilling to adapt and thrive.

August 2, 2023

4-Day Digital Product Management Bootcamp!

The 4-day immersive bootcamp, held at our Belfast office, was designed to build the core capabilities needed for product manager roles.

August 2, 2023

Security Reskilling Program: Shalini Jagadeesan

Reskilling has become a vital strategy in today's rapidly evolving world. As technology continues to reshape industries, individuals must embrace the power of reskilling to adapt and thrive.

June 26, 2023

Allstate NI Awarded Gold CORE Accreditation for Responsible Business Leadership from Business in the Community

Allstate Northern Ireland has been awarded Gold CORE accreditation.

June 14, 2023

NI businesses encouraged to go for Diversity 'Gold'

A broad spectrum of businesses and industry representatives this week attended the Diversity Mark 'Going for Gold' event to learn more about how diversity, equity, and inclusion.

May 24, 2023

The Importance of Diversity in AI & Machine Learning

ANI's Lead Data Scientist in D3, Michelle McGlone, shares why diversity is so crucial in the development of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

May 24, 2023

Cybersecurity Reskilling Program: Niall Mullan

Niall had a personal intrest in Cybersecurity. When the Cybersecurity Reskilling Program became available, Niall enrolled in the course.

May 17, 2023

Lateral Move To Data & Intelligent Systems: Rose Crampsie

Rose's journey to Data & Intelligent Systems includes having confidence and believing in oneself - taking risks by stepping out of her comfort zone.

May 10, 2023

Full Stack Development Reskilling Program: Conor Rice

Conor took advantage of reskilling opportunities at Allstate Northern Ireland to advance his career in Full Stack Development.

May 4, 2023

Project Spotlight: Legal Automation Toolkit

As winners of the 2023 Digital DNA Digital Innovation of the Year Award, we wanted to share some more detail on what made the Legal Automation Toolkit carried out by our Data & Intelligent Systems (D&IS) ML R&D Team the worthy recipients of this prestigious award!

May 2, 2023

Reskilling program: Ann Marie Doherty

I was always interested in Cybersecurity roles when they were listed on the OWN IT emails, but I never applied because I didn't meet the essential criteria as I had no experience in Cybersecurity.

March 27, 2023

Allstate NI is the first company in UK & Ireland to earn Gold Diversity Mark

Allstate NI has been awarded the Gold Diversity Mark, making it the first company in the UK & Ireland to earn this top distinction for an inclusive and diverse workplace.

March 22, 2023

Get to know Imelda McVeigh, Career Journey at ANI

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

March 21, 2023

Allstate Northern Ireland appoints Dr. Stephen McKeown as vice president and managing director

Allstate Northern Ireland has appointed Dr. Stephen McKeown to lead its employees, technology and operations.

March 2, 2023

Get to know Sarah O'Neill, Facilities Administrator

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

February 21, 2023

Employee Spotlight - Megan D'Arcy

Megan D'Arcy as she gives us insight into her role, Data Analytical Engineer, here at Allstate NI and her journey so far.

February 10, 2023

BelTech returns for tenth annual conference

Director of Research Science at Zoom, Sebastian Stücker, to address leading conference in Belfast

February 9, 2023

Allstate Cyber Safety Celebrates Safer Internet Day 2023

Safer Internet Day took place this year on Tuesday February 7 with celebrations and learning based around the theme 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online'.

February 8, 2023

Get to know Tobin Craig, ATSV Senior Manager:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

February 6, 2023

Young girls put cybersecurity skills to the test at schools competition

Girls from twelve schools across Northern Ireland have put their cybersecurity skills to the test in the Northern Ireland final of the UK CyberFirst Girls competition.

February 1, 2023

Get to know Chris Cunningham, AAV Senior Product Specialist:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

January 25, 2023

Allstate NI's Stephen Lomas appointed chair of Contact Centre Network Northern Ireland

Established in 2018, CCNNI is a nonprofit membership organisation supporting the contact centre and customer service industry, which employs over 15,000 people across Northern Ireland.

January 25, 2023

Get to know Peter Barber, Director, Direct Sales, Service and Marketing Technologies:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

January 18, 2023

Get to know Martina Donaghy, Lead Consultant, HR COE:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

January 11, 2023

Get to know Tommy Monahan, Placement Test Engineer:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

January 4, 2023

Get to know Melissa Tully, QA Engineer, ABI:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

December 28, 2022

Get to know Lee Porter, Test Engineer:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

December 7, 2022

Get to know Katie Fearnon, Learning and Development Placement:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

December 30, 2022

Get to know Darryl Murphy, Junior Product Manager:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

November 28, 2022

2022 Award Sucess

We've been proud recipients of many prestigious awards this year and want to extend our congratulations to everyone who has been involved in these accolades throughout 2022!

November 23, 2022

Get to know Fionnuala McGlinchey, Business Process Consultant:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

November 18, 2022

Making your job work for you: the benefits of hybrid working at Allstate NI

Keith Lippert, Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Allstate, shares his thoughts on the benefits of hybrid working at Allstate NI.

November 16, 2022

Get to know Dean Corry, Director, Data Science:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

November 9, 2022

Get to know Jade Truffitt, Cyber Risk Management Delivery Lead:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

November 2, 2022

Get to know Conor McCloy, Application Security Engineer:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

October 31, 2022

Vera's experience with Allstate Northern Ireland

Over the past couple of weeks Allstate Northern Ireland were delighted to offer Vera, a student from Ukraine, two weeks of work experience across several departments.

October 26, 2022

Get to know Sarah Lawrence, Research Analyst:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

October 19, 2022

Get to know Joy Chambers, Director of Business Optimisation:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

October 12, 2022

Get to know Kevin Mohamat, ACG Windows Server Analyst:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

October 5, 2022

Get to know Darcia Turner, Automation Manager:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

September 28, 2022

Get to know Suzi Murtagh, Divisional CIO, Human Resources:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

September 14, 2022

Get to know Columb Duffy, Senior Manager — Architecture, Technology/ Innovation:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

September 14, 2022

Get to know Sarah Nicol, Big Data Developer:

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

September 1, 2022

Get to know Aidan O'Kane, Director Production Health, Allstate Business Lines Enablement (Canada):

Great people are the driving force behind great business. That's why at Allstate we pride ourselves in hiring and nurturing the best people.

August 4, 2022

Allstate: More Than Insurance Technology — An Innovation Driven Enterprise

SyncNI sat down with Allstate to find out more about how they have turned the business into an innovation driven enterprise.

August 3, 2022

Learn With Leaders — Exiciting Developments in Arity with Louise Kerr

Arity is a mobility data and analytics company focused on creating better experiences on and off the road for drivers, communities, and businesses.

July 28, 2022

Assisted Animal Therapy Comes to Allstate NI

Employees at Allstate NI have welcomed Lexi, a therapy dog from Assistance Dogs Northern Ireland (ADNI), to take up residence at their Belfast office.

July 26, 2022

South West College launch brand new Career Builder programme align with Allstate

South West College (SWC) is delighted to launch a brand-new Career Builder programme, which is a unique employability and career preparation initiative.

July 6, 2022

'Ausome Parenting' Raising Autistic Children: Interview with an Allstate NI Parent

Hear from Sabrina, as she gives us a fantastic insight into her experience raising her 2 amazing autistic children.

June 30, 2022

Computing roadshow museum to tour NI schools in bid to promote IT sector careers

Ten schools across Northern Ireland will be visited by a computing roadshow museum this September in a bid to inspire more pupils into the IT industry.

May 26, 2022

Allstate NI win Workplace of the Year at Digital DNA Awards

Allstate NI took home the prestigious Workplace of the Year award at the Digital DNA 2022 awards last month at the ICC in Belfast.

May 10, 2022

Allstate NI unveils new office spaces and hybrid working policy amid recruitment drive for 100 technologists

Allstate NI, has unveiled its approach to post-pandemic working, including a hybrid working policy and redesigned office spaces.

Apr 19, 2022

Allstate NI & NOW Group Assist People With Learning Difficulties & Autism

Allstate NI has partnered with the NOW Group to deliver digital sector work placements for individuals with learning difficulties and autism.

Feb 22, 2022

Allstate NI Launches Graduate Development Programme

Allstate Northern Ireland unveiled a three-year graduate development programme offering 50 new roles, with plans for at least 100 graduate positions this year.

Feb 10, 2022

Year Nine girls battle it out in cybersecurity competition

Girls aged 12-13 have battled it out in the Northern Ireland final of the UK CyberFirst Girls Competition, the UK's flagship cybersecurity competition for schools.

Jan 19, 2022

Leading businesses help parents understand critical skills for the future of work

Allstate NI, EY and Herbert Smith Freehills are set to bring parents together in an online event to explore the skills and attributes needed to prepare school leavers for the future of work.

November 30, 2021

Allstate NI invests in future talent with 100 student and graduate opportunities this year

One of Northern Ireland's largest employers, Allstate NI, has responded to the digital transformation of the economy by creating 100 roles for students and graduates since the summer of 2021.

November 10, 2021

Learn With Leaders — Building Business Services Solutions With Joy Chambers

This month we hear from Joy Chambers, Director of Business Services Solutions (BSS) at Allstate NI.

October 26, 2021

Allstate NI Wins Gold At Both UK And Northern Ireland Contact Centre Awards

The contact centre team at Allstate Northern Ireland have achieved four gold and two silver awards across both the local and national contact centre awards events.

September 12, 2021

Allstate NI takes steps to end domestic abuse in Northern Ireland

Employees at Allstate NI have raised almost £6,000 for Women's Aid and the Men's Advisory Project in a challenge to walk one million steps in one month.

September 8, 2021

Women In Technology At Allstate (WITA)

Women from across Allstate come together as part of our Women In Technology at Allstate (WITA) employee resource group to realise, and live into, the shared purpose of engaging with, and advocating for, women in tech.

September 7, 2021

Learn With Leaders — Privileged Account Management With Robert McCausland

Who is going to discuss exciting innovations within his team around Privileged Account Management (PAM).

August 23, 2021

Allstate NI Placement Students Create AI Minecraft Project For Kids

Have you ever finished watching a Minecraft video on YouTube and suddenly you're being recommended to watch another one?

August 18, 2021

Allstate celebrates 20 years in the NorthWest

The award-winning technology giant established operations in Derry in 2001 with just 20 staff, including a mix of seasoned developers and IT graduates, and now employs over 900 in the area.

July 28, 2021

Allstate NI partners with Ulster University to drive technological innovation

How Allstate needs to protect its customers in the future is changing and that comes down to, in no small part, the capabilities of emerging technologies.

July 19, 2021

Learn with leaders

Future skills with John Healy

Welcome to the first in our series of 'Learn With Leaders' — a new thought leadership series brought to you by Allstate NI Leaders.

July 8, 2021

Allstate NI Offers Cyber Safety Training For Older Adults

Allstate NI is offering free cyber safety training sessions to protect older consumers from online scams.

July 5, 2021

Centre For Democracy And Peace Building Launches New Fellowship Programme For Mid-Career Political And Civic Leaders

Launched a new Fellowship programme to support, develop and build leaders.

June 7, 2021

Allstate recognised for world-class cybersecurity strategies

Allstate NI has joined the likes of Adobe, Visa and PayPal as an IDG CSO50 Award honouree, a global accolade that recognises 50 organisations every year for their cybersecurity strategies.

May 21, 2021

Local Man, Gary, Running 131 Miles
To Tackle Shame Of Addiction

Gary Rutherford, founder, and programme director of ARC Fitness, is running five marathons in five days to raise awareness of ARC's new 'No Shame' campaign.

May 10, 2021

Allstate NI Coding Competition —
Challenge 3

Enter our new competition for the chance to win £50!

May 3, 2021

Allstate NI Coding Competition —
Challenge 2

Enter our new competition for the chance to win £50!

April 26, 2021

Allstate NI Coding Competition —
Challenge 1

Enter our new competition for the chance to win £50!

April 22, 2021

Allstate NI are proud sponsors of The Responsible Business Awards

Enter the 2021 Responsible Business Awards in Northern Ireland before the submission deadline, 5pm on Friday 11 June.

April 7, 2021

Joining Allstate NI During A Pandemic

Joshua Smyth, FinTech Apprentice

I remember signing in on my first day and joining a call with all the other new apprentices.

March 22, 2021

Allstate NI Sponsors Queen's University Belfast Awards

Allstate NI are proud to sponsor the Queen's University Belfast awards this year! The awards commemorate the QUB student, graduate and alumni volunteer over the last year.

March 19, 2021

Businesses Called to Help Young People Get Digitally Connected to Support Their Learning and Protect Their Futures

Business in the Community is calling for employers to support young people.

March 16, 2021

Allstate NI joins with Women's Aid to help end domestic violence and promote equity

Allstate NI will support Women's Aid's Hear Her Voice campaign to highlight the violent, abusive and often life-threatening situations many women face.

March 16, 2021

Remote Onboarding by Scott Kerr, Allstate NI Data Scientist

Joining Allstate Northern Ireland during a global pandemic was an exciting and challenging experience.

February 9, 2021

Allstate NI Earns Prestigious Industry Awards And Recognition As A Force For Good In 2020

Allstate NI in the North West capped off a challenging year for businesses by earning three prestigious industry gongs at the recent Contact Centre National Network NI awards.

Jan 28, 2021

Recognition — It's In Our DNA!

Happy employees are productive employees, and this adage forms the basis for the Recognition programme at Allstate NI. We ensure that recognition is integral across the entire organisation at all levels.

Jan 26, 2021

Apprenticeships Vital To The Future Workplace, Say Leading Businesses Ahead Of Virtual Event

Allstate NI, EY and Herbert Smith Freehills are set to host a virtual event on 'Understanding Apprenticeships', the third instalment in the 'Your Child, Their Future' series.

Jan 20, 2021

Allstate launch 'Good Office Program' to support employees working from home setups

In March 2020, we moved to a 100% remote working arrangement to protect our employees from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jan 13, 2021

Christina Bates — How the Finance Team Transformed in Response to Home Working

Find out how the Allstate Northern Ireland Finance team streamlined processes and the programs in place to support employees.