Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

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 

At Geico Tech our goal is to build a new generation of platforms and capabilities to support our insurance business. And do this in a generic way that can be easily configured to enable any line of business – such as auto, commercial, etc. We leverage modern architecture patterns like event-sourcing and microservices and embraced open source as a recent member of the Linux Foundation. And we’re just getting started!! 

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 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.

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, 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 

·       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 the 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

·       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 for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals 

·       Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals  

Qualifications 

·       Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience

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