Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) - *HYBRID

Senior Staff Engineering Manager

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States.

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.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Lead the File Exchange Platform team responsible for GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service (~3M monthly transfers). Drive modernization from ticket-based operations to a self-service portal, and CMDB-driven self-certification, deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers, and meet NYDFS/PCI compliance and vulnerability SLAs while reducing onboarding cycle time and support burden.
• Lead the Unified Platform Experience and DOCAT team that defines the paved road for PaaS service providers — Platform SDKs (Python, Go, Type Script, Java), Platform Client UI/UX, IaC as a Service. Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud; drive onboarding user experience; and deliver blueprint-IaC solutions for consistent, defect-free service integration.
• Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners — advancing UCP to a production-ready tier-1 platform with audit trails, observability-as-code, governance and Fin Ops integration.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure the platform meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
• 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 product or project delivery
• 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
• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Qualifications

• Software and system design knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
• Knowledge of distributed systems and highly available, scalable architectures such as active/active, multimaster, in and across geo sharding, etc.
• Development and Management experience in one or all of the following:
• At least 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and operating enterprise file transfer platforms, developer experience platforms, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery systems.
• Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or Type Script.
• Experience driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC (Terraform), developer portals, SDK-based onboarding, and unified control-plane architectures.
• Proven experience with secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, HTTPS), key management (PGP), compliance automation (NYDFS, PCI), and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
• Experience with software…