Full Job Description
GEICO is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead and modernize the Independent Agent (IA) platform. This leader will own the technical direction, architecture, reliability, and delivery of the platform supporting the IA channel, including P2P/SAPI, CompRater, carrier and partner integrations, and quote and bundle experiences.
The IA platform is business-critical and growing. This role requires a hands-on technology leader who can work through current performance and quality issues, make sound architectural decisions, and build a stronger technical leadership bench. The leader will partner closely with Agency and Product leaders while coordinating delivery across teams with different reporting lines.
What You Will Do
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and modernization roadmap for the IA platform.
- Set clear technical standards for design, integration patterns, observability, testing, security, and production readiness.
- Improve delivery quality and reduce defects, rework, and operational risk.
- Partner with Business and Product leaders on technology plans and delivery commitments.
- Set technical direction and drive delivery across IA and partner teams.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization through hiring, coaching, and clear accountability.
- Establish efficient delivery processes with clear accountability for progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Serve as the primary technology partner for IA in cross-functional planning.
- Resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and quality challenges through durable engineering improvements.
- Identify and apply AI tools to improve engineering productivity, platform reliability, and agent experience.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading engineering organizations and technical delivery.
- Experience leading managers and senior technical individual contributors in a complex engineering environment.
- Strong hands-on technical depth in designing, modernizing, and operating enterprise application platforms and distributed systems.
- Track record of improving the performance, reliability, and delivery predictability of business-critical systems.
- Experience leading architecture and integration work across multiple products, teams, and stakeholders.
- Ability to make clear technical tradeoffs and communicate them to engineering and business leaders.
- Experience working in a large enterprise B2B or application-platform environment.
- Experience leading and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent in a complex organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with comparative rating, quoting, policy, carrier, or partner-integration platforms.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms while maintaining delivery commitments and production stability.
- A mix of large-company and startup or high-growth operating experience.
- Background at an enterprise software company such as Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle, or a similar application-platform business.
- Familiarity with modern AI technologies and developer tools, with judgment to apply them where they improve engineering productivity, platform reliability, or customer and agent experiences.
Annual Salary
$195,000.00 - $315,000.00
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.
