Staff Engineer - Data Management Platform

GEICO is seeking a dynamic and visionary individual to join our Exchange Hub Engineering team. The Exchange Hub team is dedicated to facilitating seamless and secure communication and collaboration across all internal and external third parties by collecting, managing and optimizing the exchange of data.

An ideal candidate is intellectually curious, has a solution-oriented mindset, and enjoys learning new tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to design and deliver the centralized and secure data exchange platform, related SDK, and related tools to collect, manage, and analyze user data from various sources for personalized and data-driven Insurance products and services. You would utilize Metering, Telemetry & Streaming Technologies to enhance risk assessment and customer engagement through real-time data collection, data store and data analysis.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. 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 broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Design, implement and support data quality solutions
• Design and implement solutions to manage data products, data contracts and data dictionaries
• Design and implement data lineage solutions
• Support, troubleshoot, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance solutions
• Support, troubleshoot implement and maintain, resilient distributed systems
• Responsible for technical aspects of a project at the team level
• Lead design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Spearhead new feature use (innovate within existing tooling)
• Spearhead new software acquisition and use (innovate with new tooling)
• Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of the solution
• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle

• Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
• Mentor other engineers
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design

• Experience working with open-source tools
• Experience with shell scripting
• Solid understanding of container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and contribute towards team efforts
• Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously and work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong critical thinking, decision making, trouble shooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and techniques
• Passion to innovate and provide high quality software for data management applications
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Passion for learning and professional growth, data discovery and a commitment to excellence
• Knowledge of n-tier enterprise applications
• Object oriented programming skills and awareness of SOLID design patterns a strong plus
• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Oracle, COSMOS, NoSQL etc.)
• Understanding of monitoring tools
• Understanding and experience working with Microsoft Azure DevOps (work items, build/release, CICD)
• Understanding of Data Ingestion/ streaming tooling such as ADF (Azure Data Factory), Kafka, Fivetran, Spark, or similar technologies
• Understanding of metadata management, data Ingestion, data management, data quality, and data lineage services and technologies
• Intermediate level understanding of Azure concepts including Azure portal, network security zones, VNETs, public peered services, PAAS (Platform as a Service) and IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) services
• Experience in data management to include metadata management, data lineage and data quality experience
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with SQL query language and relational database concepts
• Experience with API development and integration, Spring Boot framework and other Spring technologies

 Experience

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• 4+ years of experience on open-source development

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

 

Annual Salary

$82,000.00 - $261,500.00

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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

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 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.