Staff Engineer - Data Engineering & Analytics

Position Summary  

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.  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. Within the Data Analytics and Vertical Engineering team, you will lead the design and development of state-of-the-art data pipelines, models, and reports, transforming vast datasets that reach up to multiple terabytes in size, while championing innovation, best practices, co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 

Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from data processing, pipeline development to dimensional data modeling and reporting.  

Position Responsibilities 

​​As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• ​Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems 

• ​Utilize programming languages like Python, SQL, NoSQL, DBT along with Apache Spark for data processing, container orchestration services such as Docker and Kubernetes, and various Azure tools and services 

• ​SQL Server Integration Services as well as reporting tools like Power BI and Apache Superset to transform and report on large volumes of enterprise data to gain new insights  

• ​Utilize your passion for data exploration to produce high quality, accurate data and/or reports with visualizations to empower outstanding business decisions 

• ​Responsible for technical aspects of a project at the team level 

• ​Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization 

• ​Spearhead new feature use (innovate within existing tooling) 

• ​Spearhead new software acquisition and use (innovate with new tooling) 

• ​Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of the solution 

• ​Build with engineering excellence and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the best solutions 

• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle 

• ​Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective 

• ​Mentor other engineers  

• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

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