Senior Staff Engineering Manager, BPM Platform [REMOTE]

Position Summary  

The Core Insurance Platform (CIP) organization at GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to build out and oversee a new Workflow Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will build and manage a team that drives the development of a next-generation Insurtech platform for Business Process Management and other broad, foundational capabilities across the many GEICO lines of business. You will work closely and collaboratively with both technical and business teams to develop a progressive roadmap for the delivery of leaps in capability for the GEICO technology footprint and drive your team in the delivery of these capabilities.  

Position Description  

Our Senior Manager is a talented and experienced leader who collaborates with the team to develop and coordinate solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. In this role you will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap, prioritize efforts with stakeholders, and implement complex horizontal solutions that solve for general problems (both functional and non-functional) across the Tech organization. 

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, 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   

• 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 the experience gained (growth mindset)  

• 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  

• 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 

• 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 proposals  

Qualifications 

• Strong understanding of modern cloud-based distributed systems design patterns 

• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) 

• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly 

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts is preferred 

• Fluency with microservice-based architectures, highly-reliable distributed systems and Event Driven Architectures is preferred 

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is preferred 

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

• 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  

• Knowledge of the insurance industry and/or regulatory compliance is preferred 

 Experience  

• 6+ years coding experience achieving at least Sr. Engineer level of proficiency 

• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment 

• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a fast-paced, technical environment 

Education  

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience