Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Engineering with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on growing GEICO’s data engineering capabilities. The statistical (STAT) reporting team is responsible for state and regulatory filings across GEICO and will be undertaking a major re-platform to a modern data engineering solution. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building modern data engineering solutions and pipelines using open-source technologies.
Position Description
Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build a high-performing open-source solution that seamlessly integrates with our various applications within our ecosystem. A Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate will define and execute on a technical strategy to transform our current STAT reporting platform. You will partner and work closely with the Business, Product, and peer Data Engineering teams to ensure that the solution is delivered in line with target state data platforms and initiatives.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
- 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.
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas.
- Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics.
- Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement.
- 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.
- Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate.
- Craft fully compliant quality documentation.
- Lead people, products, and processes and be a thought leader to innovate how we transform into a data-driven organization.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking and strong planning skills to establish a long-term roadmap and business plan.
- Strong relationship building to establish and foster great relationships with tech teams and business partners.
- Able to work independently while functioning as part of a cohesive cross-functional management team.
- Coach, develop, and manage associates and supervisors, including establishing goals and evaluating performance.
- Work with stakeholders to establish and meet data quality requirements, SLAs, and SLOs for data ingestion.
Qualifications
- Proven management experience leading teams of 6+ engineers.
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, data transformation, data management, data quality, and data lineage concepts.
- Hands-on experience with modern open data stack technologies, including Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Spark, Flink, DBT, Python, Kafka, Airflow, NiFi, etc.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.).
- Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus.
- Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly.
- Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge.
- Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts.
- Fluency with SQL and PowerBI.
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both Senior Leadership, highly technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience designing, building, optimizing, and scaling solutions using distributed computing.
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and build and release practices.
Experience
- 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.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
Annual Salary
$150,000.00 - $300,000.00
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.
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