Senior Engineering Manager - Dallas, United States - GEICO

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
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on your teams 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 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)
• 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
• 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

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

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 candidates work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

Benefits:

As an Associate, youll 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.