Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering - Data Exchange Platform (REMOTE)

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, inclu