Senior Manager, Engineering
GEICO
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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
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 the 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 will be doing…
As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, 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
Execute change management processes and best practices, adapting approach as necessary
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 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. These are the sources of GEICO’s competitive advantage.
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 proposal
What you will need…
Proven success implementing large scale projects across multiple disciplines
Reputation as someone who engages with team members effectively
Identified as someone who genuinely cares about others and invests time and attention in career counseling others, focusing time and energy in encouraging associates to continue to grow and stretch into new roles or gain experience or skillsets needed to prepare for future roles
Deep understanding of multiple business domains as well as the application ecosystems they depend upon
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
Initiative and creativity in solving problems and driving innovation through others
Delivery of information in a clear and concise manner appropriate to the audience
Embracing ownership of both successes and failures, demonstrating leadership maturity
Ability to balance multiple assignments distributed across multiple teams and dependency areas
Confidence with decision making
Clearly able to see how projects interrelate and have a strategic impact
Ability to build and maintain a network of contacts
Continued understanding of and growth in emotional intelligence
Experience
6+ years of hands-on software development experience
5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
3+ years of leadership experience managing a large team comprised of multiple scrum teams
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, platforms, and technologies (AWS, Azure)
Strong understanding of CI/CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management processes and tooling
Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and/or Model Development Lifecycle (MDLC)
Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both Senior Leadership and Highly Technical personnel
Experience with strategic planning, establishing and communicating roadmaps, budgeting, and allocation of resources
Excellent problem-solving skills, proactive, and ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment
Flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.