Hybrid Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering – Data

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering – Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $140,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager at GEICO leading data-centric engineering teams to provide innovative solutions. Overseeing software implementation and mentoring engineers with a focus on business collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Under limited supervision, leads and manages the activities of providing data-centric solutions to various business domains for various business scenarios, by collaborating with business partners and other engineering functions.
• Builds, leads, and mentors a cross-functional engineering team of up to 15 engineers with technical oversight of 2 to 5 key strategic domains with cross organizational dependencies.
• Collaborates closely with business customers and other engineering functions to the build the right solutions.
• Manages the activities of engineers and engineer teams in the establishment and implementation of new or revised systems and programs.
• Responsible for software implementations ensuring accuracy and completeness and approves them for implementation.
• Monitors and analyzes functional and non-functional requirements in accordance with regulatory and operating requirements.
• Conducts research to understand diverse perspectives from business, project management, design, and other areas to assess likely reactions to new initiatives or products and forecast their potential.
• Manages the investigation of interruptions to functional areas of existing systems. Assists engineers and others in diagnosing cause of problems. Manages remedy actions.
• Analyzes the impact of new hardware and software on existing systems.
• Trains, mentors and provides developmental opportunities for engineers to assure performance expectations are met.
• Periodically reviews existing systems for possible program or systems improvement or enhancements.
• Assists in the preparation of all required management reports.
• Prepares department business plans, staffing projections and budgets. Requisitions supplies and materials necessary for efficient operation. Reviews plans and budgets periodically to achieve cost reduction where possible.
• Adheres to the Code of Conduct, company policies, and operating principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing.
• 5+ years of professional experience focusing on data engineering, including but not limited to large scale data movement and processing, data architecture, compute and storage performance and efficiency, machine learning / AI, analytic user experience and management, business intelligence, data-centric application development.
• 5+ years of experience in financial industry.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.