Senior Manager, Staff Engineering - REMOTE

Position Summary  

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Engineering with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on growing GEICO’s data engineering capabilities. The statistical (STAT) reporting team is responsible for state and regulatory filings across GEICO and will be undertaking a major re-platform to a modern data engineering solution. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building modern data engineering solutions and pipelines using open-source technologies. 

Position Description  

​Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build a high performing open-source solution that seamlessly integrates with our various applications within our ecosystem. A Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate will define and execute on a technical strategy to transform our current STAT reporting platform. You will partner and work closely with the Business, Product, and peer Data Engineering teams to ensure that the solution is delivered in line with target state data platforms and initiatives. 

Position Responsibilities  

​​As a Senior Manager, you will:  

• Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time  

• ​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 

• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement   

• ​Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies  

• Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate  

• ​Craft fully compliant quality documentation  

• ​Lead people, products, and process and be a thought leader to innovate how we transform into a data driven organization 

• Demonstrate strategic thinking and strong planning skills to establish long term roadmap and business plan 

• Strong relationship building to establish and foster great relationships with tech teams and business partners 

• Able to work independently while functioning as part of a cohesive cross-functional management team 

• Coach, develop, and manage associates and supervisors, including establishing goals and evaluating performance