Senior Manager, Digital Engineering

Position Summary

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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 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'll do :

• Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running.
• Hire, retain, mentor, and manage engineering staff to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers.
• Manage operational budget and expenses for the team.
• Perform engineering design evaluations to ensure projects are within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.
• Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making.
• Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams and project managers overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments and project plans.
• Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability.
• Be responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications.

Basic Qualifications :

• 7+ years of hands-on development and / or solutions engineering experience. Must have recent hands-on experience with developing or designing cloud solutions.
• 5+ years of leadership experience leading engineering teams.
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Strong understanding of Agile concepts and processes.
• Strong understanding of CI / CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management processes and tooling. Understanding of data modeling and AI concepts.
• Strong background in delivering digital - web and / or mobile - products at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, platforms, and technologies. Ability to prioritize and drive results based on business value to the organization.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal / written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both Senior Leadership and Highly Technical personnel.
• Experience with developing and running DevOps.
• Experience designing and architecting flexible, scalable, high-availability Cloud native applications.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new 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, including :

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period.
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave.
• 401(k) Plan.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Paid Training and Licensures.
• Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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