Senior People Analytics Lead

GEICO • Bethesda, MD

2d • $104,550 - $172,200 • Hybrid

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. About the role We’re looking for an experienced People Data & Analytics Lead to manage and leverage people data from Workday and other HR systems to provide business insights. You will create and maintain clear business definitions and a reusable data dictionary to enable trusted HR reporting and seamless downstream integrations. You’ll also apply strong data engineering practices to deliver reliable pipelines and data models, improve automation and observability, and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining an HR-facing data dictionary, metric catalog, or semantic layer used for reporting and downstream consumption.
• Experience working with People/HR data (e.g., Workday) and understanding core HR concepts such as worker lifecycle events, job/position structures, org hierarchies, compensation, benefits, time, and security.
• Hands-on experience leveraging HR data for insights: definitions, ownership, system of record, lineage, and known data quality considerations.
• Experience partnering with HR stakeholders (HRIS, People Analytics, Total Rewards, Talent, Payroll) to deliver trusted datasets and reporting.
• Knowledge of data privacy and access principles for employee data (e.g., least privilege, sensitive data handling) and ability to work within governance standards.
• Familiarity with data governance practices (stewardship, approvals, data quality monitoring, and auditability) for sensitive employee data.
• Strong communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years in people data engineering, HR analytics/engineering, or data engineering supporting HR systems (e.g., Workday), reporting, and integrations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Workday reporting and data delivery patterns (e.g., custom reports, calculated fields) and/or Workday integrations.
• Experience enabling HR reporting and self-service analytics (Power BI or similar), including defining and governing standard metrics.
• Exposure to identity and access management concepts as they relate to HR data permissions and security roles.
• Experience improving data processes through documentation, stakeholder training, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Understand and document People data in Workday and other HR systems, including key entities, relationships, and end-to-end data flows.
• Create and maintain a People data dictionary (business definitions, calculations, lineage, and system-of-record guidance) that HR can use for reporting and integrations.
• Model data for analytics (data warehouse/OLAP concepts, dimensional modeling) and enable self-service BI and reporting (Power BI, Superset or similar).
• Proactively anticipates data and reporting needs and updates reporting assets regularly to reflect evolving business priorities and stakeholder requirements.
• Serves as a consultant for the organization’s data needs, advising teams on how to translate business questions into actionable data and reporting solutions.
• Partners with security teams to design and maintain appropriate access solutions, ensuring data is protected while remaining accessible to authorized users.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level