Geico - Chevy Chase, MD
posted 3 months ago
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. In this role, you will build and manage a team of engineers focused on delivering enterprise-wide products that operate in a highly performant and efficient manner. You will play a crucial role in driving our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. As an engineering leader, you will work closely with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions, and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. The Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that emphasizes increasing product delivery velocity and unlocking new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise to improve application performance, conduct capacity benchmarking, enhance availability and reliability, and design and evolve cloud infrastructure and architecture. You will collaborate with the Director to manage project dependencies, negotiate delivery dates, and ensure the timely completion of projects while identifying and addressing project risks with implementable solutions or alternatives. In this position, you will also initiate and support performance evaluations of team members, craft fully compliant quality documentation, and work with product teams to understand their pain points around performance and resiliency. You will cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, build and maintain trustful relationships with team members, and address any technical or analytical skill gaps. Staying current with software engineering best practices is essential, as is the ability to craft and deliver persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing and managing the team budget, reporting on results achieved at regular intervals, and contributing significantly to the team planning process.