Senior Director, Software Engineering

GEICO is more than insurance, it's truly a tech company at heart. GEICO's Technology Solutions is rapidly expanding to keep up with its growth in the digital space and that is why we are looking to add such a senior role to our structure.

GEICO's Sr. Director of Software Engineering, under the general direction of VP, provides leadership to a group of 50 - 100 team members. You will direct the activities of software engineering teams in the establishment and implementation of new or revised systems and programs.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage the customer relationships for functional area ensuring that business plan items and operational support are in line with business objectives.

• Manage and Direct the effective operations of a functional work processing area including ensuring process improvements leading to productivity gains.

• Provide management and technical guidance to the systems and programming activities within the section. For Tier 1 Application areas this includes off hours support for outage events.

• Responsible to stable and reliable delivery of the application to production users within SLA.

• Direct the planning, development, scheduling, and maintenance of specific systems of projects and the programming, monitoring and modification of specific program through technical managers.

• Direct the investigations of interruptions to the functional area of existing computer systems.

• Be responsible for the hiring, terminating, promoting, and transferring associates in the section.

• Evaluate the performance of staff, reviews results accomplished considering established objectives and recommends status and salary adjustments.

• Review and approve section salary budget, manpower requirements and all other qualitative planning.

• Possess effective decision-making skills demonstrated using sound judgement along with tactful communication.

• Able to craft, communicate, and execute a vision and mission for a team.

• Build, sustain, and leverage relationships across teams and divisions to execute projects collaboratively.

• Negotiate with external vendors to secure best price and access to the tools/resources required to execute plans.

• Work with your officer 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, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence.

• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members.

• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement.

• Execute change management processes and best practices, adapting approach as necessary.

• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust.

• Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable because of experience gained (growth mindset).

• 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.

• Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience. These are the sources of GEICO's competitive advantage.

• Craft fully compliant quality documentation.

Essential Job Functions:

• Proven success implementing large scale projects across multiple disciplines.

• Reputation as someone who engages with team members effectively.

• Deep understanding of multiple business domains as well as the application ecosystems they depend upon.

• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information drive prioritization and action.

• Initiative and creativity in solving problems and driving innovation through others.

• Delivery of information in a clear and concise manner appropriate to the audience.

• Embracing ownership of both successes and failures, demonstrating leadership maturity.

• Ability to balance multiple assignments distributed across multiple teams and dependency areas.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years proven technical experience in IT Project Management.

• Proven experience building influential and impactful relationships internally and externally to lead and drive change.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, proactive, and ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment.

• Flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you'll enjoy our* 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.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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Annual Salary

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.