Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering - Data

Geico Insurance•Boston, MA

52d•$140,000 - $300,000

About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. 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.

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Interviews and/or approves job applicants for employment. conducts and/or reviews associate performance appraisals. Initiates or approves salary adjustments, performance ratings, and other personnel changes. Counsels associates and takes disciplinary action or terminates the employment of associates as appropriate.
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.
Meets attendance standard at business location to perform necessary job functions and to facilitate interaction with management and co-workers and if applicable direct reports.
Meets the requirements specified below.
Must be able to, with or without accommodation, perform the essential functions which include, but are not limited to seeing, hearing, typing and speaking
Must be able to use a PC
Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills
Must be able to multi-task
Must be able to handle competing priorities and projects
Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information, and follow processes that have been published
Must be knowledgeable of software coding and following standards and processes that have been published and the guidelines for the design
Must be able to provide system training to team members as needed
Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers, and other employees of the organization
Must be able to perform under pressure and stressful situations
May be required to be on call for production support 24x7
Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly

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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