Sr Manager, Staff Engineering - (Software Development / Microservices) - Hybrid

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. The role involves leading a team of engineers to deliver enterprise-wide products and drive the transformation of the insurance business.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• 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
• Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
• Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
• Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
• Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas
• Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices
• 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 persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement
• Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary
• Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements
• Contribute significantly to the team planning process, including surfacing team’s proposals
• Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed