Senior Manager of Data Engineering

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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.

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized.

We’re seeking a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to lead the evolution of our Claims Data Platform. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll manage our current database operations while architecting and building the next generation of data infrastructure. You’ll work at the intersection of technology and business, partnering with development teams, claims operations, and analytics to ensure claims data flows seamlessly across the enterprise. This position sits within the Claims organization, embedded directly in the business unit that owns a significant dataset in the enterprise. You'll operate with the full context of claims operations, regulatory requirements, and business priorities, not as a centralized service, but as an integral part of how Claims technology delivers value.

Your mission: Transform how our organization consumes and publishes claims data - from legacy to a modern, event driven scalable data platform with self-service APIs and robust data pipelines.

What You’ll Do

Build Data Interfaces & Pipelines

• Design and deliver APIs and data services that enable partner teams to

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using modern orchestration tools

• Implement data quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting

• Create self-service data products that reduce time-to-insight for business users

Drive Strategic Initiatives

• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Compliance teams on data governance

• Champion data engineering best practices: version control, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code

• Partner with Analytics and Data Science teams to deliver ML-ready datasets

• Report to leadership on platform health, roadmap progress, and strategic opportunities

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, database administration, or data platform development

• 4+ years of people management experience leading technical teams (5+ direct reports)

• Proven track record of building and scaling data pipelines in production environments

• Experience managing enterprise database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or equivalent)

• Databases: Deep expertise in relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL); familiarity with NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)

• Streaming: Working knowledge of Kafka, Kinesis, or Pulsar for real-time data streaming

• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with Azure or AWS, data services

• Data Warehousing: Hands-on experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks

• Data Pipelines: Proficiency with Apache Airflow, dbt, or similar orchestration tools

• Programming: Solid coding skills in Python, SQL; familiarity with Spark/PySpark

• APIs: Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and data services

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurance/Claims Domain: Experience with Guidewire, Duck Creek, or similar claims management systems

• Data Governance: Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and master data management tools

• DevOps: Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines

• Compliance: Understanding of insurance regulatory requirements (state regulations, audit compliance)

Education: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field - Master’s degree preferred

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.