- 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, 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
- 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 as a result of the 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
- Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
- Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience
- Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
- Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
- Craft fully compliant quality documentation
- Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination
- 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
- Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience
- Proven experience in digital experimentation and using web analytics data to optimize the online customer experience
- Expertise and hands on experience building and deploying apps (preferably cloud-native) in either Azure or AWS.
- Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
- Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing
- 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
- In-depth knowledge of MS Office tools such as PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and WebEx for effective communication
- Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio
- Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
- Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Fluency with .NET, HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures
- Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Experience in PowerShell Scripting
- 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 to drive prioritization and action
- 6+ years coding experience
- 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 of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
Annual Salary
At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Benefits:
- 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.