Manager, Engineering - MarTech (Remote)

GEICO MarTech team is seeking an experienced Manager with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering and maintaining critical services to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will work closely and collaboratively with the Senior Manager and business teams to ensure efforts are prioritized and completed successfully.

Position Description

Our 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 Manager, Engineering 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.

Position Responsibilities

As a Manager, you will:

• Work with your Senior Manager 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 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

• 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

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

Qualifications

• Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience

• · Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

• Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing

• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly

• Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge

• Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira

• Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts

• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal

• Fluency with .NET, HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Java. Python, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

• Experience in PowerShell Scripting

• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action

Experience

• 5+ years coding experience and development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment

• 4+ years of hands-on work experience supervising and leading personnel in a technical environ