Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Engineering 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 growing GEICO’s data engineering capabilities. The statistical (STAT) reporting team is responsible for state and regulatory filings across GEICO and will be undertaking a major re-platform to a modern data engineering solution. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building modern data engineering solutions and pipelines using open-source technologies.
Position Description
Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build a high performing open-source solution that seamlessly integrates with our various applications within our ecosystem. 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 will define and execute on a technical strategy to transform our current STAT reporting platform. You will partner and work closely with the Business, Product, and peer Data Engineering teams to ensure that the solution is delivered in line with target state data platforms and initiatives.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, 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
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
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
Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
Craft fully compliant quality documentation
Lead people, products, and process and be a thought leader to innovate how we transform into a data driven organization
Demonstrate strategic thinking and strong planning skills to establish long term roadmap and business plan
Strong relationship building to establish and foster great relationships with tech teams and business partners
Able to work independently while functioning as part of a cohesive cross-functional management team
Coach, develop, and manage associates and supervisors, including establishing goals and evaluating performance
Work with stakeholders to establish and meet data quality requirements, SLAs and SLOs for data ingestion
Qualifications
Proven management experience leading teams of 6+ engineers
Strong understanding of data ingestion, data transformation, data management, data quality, and data lineage concepts
Hands-on experience with modern open data stack technologies, including Apache Iceberg, Spark, Flink, DBT, Python, Kafka, Airflow, NiFi, etc.
Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as GitHub and Azure DevOps
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
Fluency with SQL and PowerBI
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both Senior Leadership, highly technical and non-technical audiences
Experience designing, building, optimizing, and scaling solutions using distributed computing
Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and build and release practices
Experience
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
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
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Annual Salary
$120,000.00 - $300,000.00The 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.
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 Assistance
- 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.
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