Senior Manager, Engineering

​​Senior Manager, Software Engineering​ 

Position Summary   

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager 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 delivering enterprise-wide products to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.  

Position Description   

Our Senior Manager 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. 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 has deep technical expertise to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and architecture. 

What you will be doing… 

As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, 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, 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 

• Execute change management processes and best practices, adapting approach as necessary 

• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust 

• Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of experience gained (growth mindset) 

• 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 

• Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance 

• Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience. These are the sources of GEICO’s competitive advantage. 

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

• Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s) 

• Craft fully compliant quality documentation 

• Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination 

• Develop the team budget and be accountable