A Senior Manager at GEICO is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. In this role, you will lead the development of a data exchange platform for GEICO's Insurance Marketplace, which enables scalable and extensible integrations with internal and external partners. You will lead strategy and execution of the technical roadmap for this foundational sub-area of one of GEICO's fastest growing businesses. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems design and development.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
- Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
- Define and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure the platform meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.
- Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
- Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
- Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
- Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
- Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
- Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
- Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
Qualifications
- Software and system design knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
- Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Proficient in one or more object oriented programming languages
- Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations
- Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform.
- Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
- Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
- Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Proven ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics to your work and decision making, and to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices
- 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
- 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
- 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
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Annual Salary
$150,000.00 - $300,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Benefits:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
