Senior Engineering Manager
Company: GEICO
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to
revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in
the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better
efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision
and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to
deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and
are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized. -
With this massive mission, we are adding to our technical
leadership team within the People & Finance Technology
organization. As a Senior Manager, you will be an engineering
leader working 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. -The 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. -In this highly collaborative role, 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. 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 a core foundation of broad and deep full stack
development experience as well as proven experience leading a Java
focused engineering team. - - As a Senior Engineering Manager, you
will: -
- Collaborate with your Director to manage 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
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- 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
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- 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 and address technical or analytical skill gaps that
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.
- Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when
appropriate -
- Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
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- 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 - Qualifications
- Preferred: Fluency with at least one modern language such as
Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts,
platforms, and technologies (AWS, Azure) -
- 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
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- Ability to balance multiple assignments distributed across
multiple teams and dependency areas -
- Clearly able to see how projects interrelate and have a
strategic impact -
- 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 -
- Excellent problem-solving skills, proactive, and ability to
thrive in an ambiguous environment -
- 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 -
- Experience in application monitoring tools and performance
assessments -
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, Release Management, and
Configuration Management processes and tooling -
- Continued understanding of and growth in emotional intelligence
-Experience with strategic planning, establishing and communicating
roadmaps, budgeting, and allocation of resources - 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 - Education - -
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or
equivalent education or work experience - #LI-MK1
- Annual Salary $120,000.00 - $261,500.00 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.
-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. 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.
Keywords: GEICO, Berwyn , Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering , Chicago, Illinois
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