Associate Underwriting Manager overseeing underwriting operations and team dynamics at Zurich. Engaging with agents and brokers to drive profitability and market presence in the primary casualty arena.
About the role
- Senior Engineering Manager at GEICO leading innovative application solutions for Underwriting Services. Focus on scalable applications and leveraging AI technologies for efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap to improve system reliability and operational excellence, enable new engineering capabilities.
- Lead the effort to build a new Rules Engine leveraging AI capabilities such as LLM, and integration with important underwriting and policy workflows.
- Revamp core Underwriting services and applications which cover the majority of our existing insurance product workflows.
- Innovate and build tools that seamlessly integrate with our various insurance systems and provide real-time insights on Underwriting to business teams.
- Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and running optimally.
- Hire, retain, mentor, and manage engineering staff to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and grow professionally.
- 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.
- Oversee day-to-day activities of engineering teams, ensuring timely execution of software development projects.
- Simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity while improving performance, agility, and scalability.
- Be responsible for production operations support, ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications.
- Foster strong relationships with tech teams and business partners in commercial insurance to align technical solutions with business needs.
Requirements
- Proven management experience leading teams of 10+ engineers, with a focus on delivering high-quality systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.).
- Fluency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java, or Go, with experience in open-source software being a plus.
- Proven ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly, with a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts.
- Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architectures, microservices, and libraries.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build and release practices, and application monitoring tools.
- Understand of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage
- Experience with automated testing, including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with senior leadership, technical, and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed.
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.
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